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2011 · drama · history · supernatural · political

Even the Rain

Directed by Icíar Bollaín1h 43m2011
ElsewhereIMDb7.415kRT87%Metacritic69
  • sombre
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Sombre, steady, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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As a director and his crew shoot a controversial film about Christopher Columbus in Cochabamba, Bolivia, local people rise up against plans to privatize the water supply.

Our read · Even the Rain (2011) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · history · supernatural entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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