Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Araya
— This is a visually exciting Venezuelan film, semi-documentary in style, is about a salt marsh where generations have harvested the salt and their lives have been largely unchanged for hundreds of years. The tight ecosystem presented is interesting enough but the script adds and visuals an epic quality to the narrative. The music occasionally surges more than necessary, but doesn’t take away from the fact that "Araya" (DVD) is a very good scripted documentary.

[1959. 90 min. Directed by Margo Benacerraf.]
http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/araya-2010

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