The Trial
Filmfest 2007
PT: La prueba
OT: LA PRUEBA
Cuba, Peru, Spain 2006
(Original: Spanish)
Director: Judith Vélez
Section: Visiones Latinas
THE TRIAL pushes the road movie into the upper reaches of remotest Peru and into dicey narrative territory. Filmmaker Judith Velez expresses a love of land akin to – and in some ways surpassing – BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN and, with co-writer Augusto Cabada, ambitiously tries to dramatize a daughter’s peculiar attempts to make sense of her troubled family’s history... In Arequipa, she forms an unlikely partnership with hydraulic engineer and dam expert Saul, who drives her far into the Andean countryside where clues indicate Ignacio (her brother) may be hiding. Robert Koehler, Variety, April 11, 2006
Cast: Denisse Arreguí, Mario Bedoya, Eliana Borja, Willy Gutiérrez, David Mendoza
Credits
Director: Judith Vélez