Tiempos menos moedernos (2011)

	Also Known As: -
	Year of first release: 2011
	Director: Simón Franco
	Actors: Nicolás Saavedra, Oscar Payaguala
	Country: RA, RCH
	Genre: Drama
	Conditions of visioning: 18.08.2015, DVD, Original Spanish version
Synopsis: As Felipe (Saavedra) visits his friend Ramiro Payaguala (Oscar Payaguala), he sees a box containing telephone, television, the whole modernity for this isolated ranch in Patagonia. After installing all this, Ramiro meets the modernity and handles this.
Review: As often in Latin American movies, the starting scene is slow and long. But afterwards it is really good. With the distance and looking at the context we have in Europe everyday of people getting lazy and stupid by watching too much TV, the movie becomes even very funny.  The actors are good and Oscar Payaguala who is a quite famous singer from Argentina plays perfectly the role of rough Patagonian. There is some folk songs as well in the movie. Saavedra is very authentic and took his role very well. I would look for his other movies, because he has potential. Unfortunately the movie is very slow and some parts could have been shortened. On the other side, this shows the real rythm of life in the Patagonian countryside.
Rating: 5 /10