Whisky (2004)
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100% of critics liked it
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(2,677 ratings)
Directors Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll co-helm the contemporary black comedy Whisky, set in Montevideo, Uruguay. An exercise in straight-faced humor laced with absurdly funny -- yet instantly recognizable -- characters and situations, Whisky travels into the world of Jacobo (Andres Pazos), the… More Directors Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll co-helm the contemporary black comedy Whisky, set in Montevideo, Uruguay. An exercise in straight-faced humor laced with absurdly funny -- yet instantly recognizable -- characters and situations, Whisky travels into the world of Jacobo (Andres Pazos), the owner and proprietor of a sock factory. Trapped in a prison of day-to-day loneliness, Jacobo finds his world turned onto its ear when his freewheeling, toothy-grinned (and infinitely more successful) brother Herman (Jorge Bolani) comes for a visit. Determined to cloak the extent of his misery, Jacobo recruits his assistant at the sock factory, Marta (Mirella Pascual), to pretend to be his wife. Screened in the United States by the Global Film Initiative, as part of its Global Lens Film Series, Whisky earned rave reviews from the BBC, The New York Times, Variety, and many other esteemed publications. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
- Directed By
- Juan Pablo Rebella, Pablo Stoll
- Written By
- Gonzalo Delgado, Juan Pablo Rebella
- Genres
- Art House & International, Comedy
Unrated,
- In Theaters
- Oct 12, 2004 Limited
- On DVD
- Mar 21, 2006
- Studio
- Global Film Initiative
Critic Reviews
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Wesley Morris, Boston Globe
A fine film of few words and very little motion.
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Manohla Dargis, New York Times
A deadpan comedy shot through with a vein of despair, the Uruguayan film Whisky is a pint-size pleasure.
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Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald
With its intentional pacing and spare but precise dialogue, Whisky works up a unique mood that's languorous yet exhilarating.
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Dennis Schwartz, Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Slyly appealing.
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Anton Bitel, Eye for Film
directors Stoll and Rebella have taken a potentially farcical triangle and built from it a bleak meditation on twilit lives and lost opportunities.
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Cast
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Andres Pazos
as Jacobo Koller
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Mirella Pascual
as Marta Acuna
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Jorge Bolani
as Herman Koller
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Ana Katz
as Young married couple
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Daniel Hendler
as Young married couple
- José Pedro Bujaruz
- Veronica Perrotta
