Alma mater (2004)

Calificación de los usuarios:

6.3/10   

Director:

Álvaro Buela

Guionista:

Álvaro Buela (writer)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

2004 (Uruguay)

Género:

Drama | Misterio | Fantasía

Plot:

34-year-old Pamela is a small and shy woman. She works at the cash register of a supermarket. She attends...

Premios:

1 win & 2 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

One may think what he wants, but the music's great!

Reparto

Roxana Blanco	...	Pamela
Nicolás Becerra	...	Katia
Walter Reyno	...	Man with Hat
Beatriz Massons	...	Mrs. Lucia
Werner Schüneman	...	Minister Assunção
listado alfabético del resto del reparto:
Gladys Areta
Hugo Bardallo
Daniel Bergolo
Silvia Copelo	...	Magdalena
Humberto De Vargas
Jenny Galvan
Gabriela Quartino
Rosa Simonelli

Duración:

100 min

País:

Uruguay

Idioma:

Español

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.78 : 1

Compañía:

Austero Producciones

One may think what he wants, but the music's great!

Playing quite a while on the new Latin American cinema topos of identity and break-out of traditions, Alma Mater finishes furiously with the all-too optimistic expectations of it's viewers, based exactly on what has been just mentioned above. First, the final isn't any happy, though neither desperate. Second, Uruguayan society and family traditions do not exactly allow you to develop your personality if it doesn't correspond to some kind of mainstream; what the movie shows therefore is the realization of an emancipation movement under circumstances that might fairly enough be called difficult, and for which the merely existence of an advancing through hard times is already worth some smile and optimism. Now, if anything of the above is new, or even artistically well drawn in Alma Mater (pronouncing, though, the marvelous acting of Nicolás Becerra) has to be discussed in the future - but the selection of the film's soundtrack can surely not be characterized with less than the best south American o.s.t. in recent years. Minimalist arrangements with angelical voices might sound pathetic or even boring, but they moved every listener I've consulted. Hopefully the tracks will be available soon outside Uruguay. If one knows where, please contact me!