Araya
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DVD Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: May 17, 2011
- Originally Released: 1958
- Label: Milestone Video
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Directed by | Margot Benacerraf |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 4/5 --
It cares so passionately about its subjects that you will as well.
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Los Angeles Times
Benacerraf's grand style captures the drama of subsistence in the face of nature; the overwhelming beauty of the wide-open spaces contrasts with the workers' burdened trudges through them.
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New Yorker
Rating: B+ --
Margot Benacerraf's starkly beautiful 1959 documentary Araya is the rare film whose austere stylistic impersonality is a key aspect of its elemental power.
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Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This astonishing documentary, so beautiful, so horrifying, was filmed in the late 1950s, when an old way of life had not yet ended.
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Chicago Sun-Times
A stunning, strangely liminal movie in form and content.
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Artforum
Rating: 3.5/4 --
This expertly restored black-and-white work is a thing of wonder.
Denver Post
Araya is a tone poem, a poetic portrait of an ancient existence in the modern world, with narration (scripted with Pierre Seghers) to match...
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Product Description:
Shown at Cannes in 1959, the year after Venezuela's last dictator Marcos Perez-Jimenez was overthrown, the documentary inadvertently highlights the kind of exploitation of the poor that can lead to rebellion. While the dictator escaped to Miami with $13 million, salt workers were piling up mounds of salt on the flat sands, making barely enough money to keep them in arepas and black beans. Between the hot, tropical climate and the sores on their feet, the job these workers do every day is excruciating. Yet the lives of the fishermen and salt workers in this documentary are shown in the context of planned, upscale development, something of a disservice to the larger picture.
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Product Info
- Sales Rank: 82,977
- UPC: 784148011448
- Shipping Weight: 0.17/lbs (approx)
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