También la lluvia 2010
Spain’s 2011 Oscar nominee Reine also combines directing, Christopher Columbus, and the fight for basic human rights. Written by long-time Ken Loach collaborator Paul Laverty, the film follows Iciar Bolline’s successful detective novel Mataharis from 2007. Sebastian, an obsessed idealist, is determined to make a film about Christopher Columbus, but this will turn the Christian hero legend upside down and expose his greed and savage tendencies. While shooting in Bolivia, the cheapest and most “indigenous” country in Latin America, social unrest erupts 500 years after Columbus. People start fighting for the most basic necessity of life, water.
