Fresh
Altiplano sees Brosens and Woodworth take a bold and unpredictable approach in calling attention to an environmental catastrophe.
Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times
Overview
In the Andes, a Belgian doctor and his photojournalist wife become ensnared in a native tribe's struggle with a mining company.
Director and cast
- Peter Brosens Director
- Jessica Hope Woodworth Director
- Jasmin Tabatabai Cast
- Magaly Solier as Grace
- Olivier Gourmet as Max
- Arturo Anacarino Zarate as Orlando
- Malku Choquehuillca as Malku
- Edgar Condori as Nilo / Omar
- Behi Djanati Atai as Sami
- Kian Khalili as Reza
- Sonia Loaiza as Luz
- Hermelinda Luján as Rufina
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
70%
Tomatometer
Fresh
If a film may do penance for its narrative faults with the grace of its visuals, Altiplano does so in dramatic fashion.
Ian Buckwalter, NPR
Rotten
Filled with mythic style and magical thinking, Altiplano feeds the eyes but gives rations to the mind.
Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times
Fresh
If Ingmar Bergman had made a Peruvian message movie, it might look something like this slow-building, panoramic meditation about the effects of mercury contamination in the Andes mountains.
Lisa Rosman, Time Out New York
Rotten
Co-collaborators Peter Brosens and Jessica Woodworth still cheapen their ethnological lyricism by over-stylizing the venture as if it were a Benetton ad by Alejandro Jodorowsky-lite.
Aaron Hillis, Village Voice
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