Madeinusa
- Magaly Solier Romero: madeinusa
- Yiliana Chong: Chale
- Juan Carlos De La Torre: Salvador
- Juan Ubaldo Huamán: Cayo
- Melvin Quijada: Mauro
Madeinusa is a Peruvian- Spanish drama film from the year 2006. Directed by Claudia Llosa, the niece of the writer Mario Vargas Llosa.
Action
Madeinusa is a 14 -year-old girl who lives in the Peruvian Andes in the small, remote village Manayaycuna ( Quechua for " enclosed village "). Her biggest dream is to go to Lima, where her mother fled years ago. While her father, the mayor of Manayaycuna, madeinusa pressured to sleep with him, her sister Chale is jealous and tries to make her life more difficult.
Every year is excessively celebrated in Manayaycuna Holy Week. Madeinusa has been selected this year for " Virgin " and to lead the procession. Random comes Salvador, a native of Lima Photographer, at the beginning of the celebrations of the village. Salvador and madeinusa found sympathetic and sleep together. Madeinusa want to go with Salvador to Lima, this is also ready for this.
At the end of the film madeinusa kills her father with rat poison, accused along with her sister Salvador of murder and ultimately drives alone to Lima.
Reception
In the Basler Zeitung you wrote that the film bribe by original ideas: " Compelling images and a consistently good cast ensure that the on the border on the absurd screened tends action feels authentic. " Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung described the film as " [h ] alb ethnographic document, half- absurd bent revolutionary drama ". He rage " by image force and idea the current South American cinema by a head. "
Awards
At the Festival Internacional de Cine de Mar del Plata in 2006, the film won the Roberto Tato Miller Award as "Best Latin American Cinema ." He received the FIPRESCI prize at the Tiger Awards Festival Rotterdam. As " Best debutantes movie" you chose madeinusa the International Women's Film Festival Dortmund / Cologne 2006. With the price of hamburger film critics, the film was honored at the 14th Hamburg Film Festival.
The film was the Peruvian submitting a nomination for " Best Foreign Film " at the Oscar ceremony in 2007, but was not nominated.