Even the Rain

I'm really intrigued by the trailer for a new Spanish film called También la lluvia, or Even the Rain, starring Gael García Bernal. A synopsis with brief background:

A little more than a decade ago, the Bolivian government joined forces with multinational organizations to privatize the water supply in the city of Cochabamba. The local community took to the streets, protesting new regulations that would make water unaffordable for the city’s poor. Some claimed that under the proposed law, people would need a license to even collect rainwater from their roofs.

That's the source of the title of the new Spanish movie, Tambien La Lluvia, or Even the Rain, which tells the story of an unsuspecting movie crew that comes to Cochabamba in the days leading up to the water war.

It looks like a somewhat satirical look at the filmmaking industry, but more significantly, draws parallels (at times heavy-handedly, according to some critics) between the colonialism of Columbus 500 years ago and the effects of globalization today. I'm guessing that the film exaggerates things to make a point, but the so-called "resource wars" in Latin America and elsewhere are real and deserve attention. Whether this is the best vehicle for that, I'm not sure, but I look forward to seeing it.

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