Try it again without the Forwarding: Move: "The Pope's Toilet (2007)"
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| Sent on: | Saturday, April 11, 2009, 12:44 PM |
The Pope's Toilet (2007)
Museum of Modern Art
C��sar Troncoso in ���The Pope���s Toilet��� at MoMA.
April 8, 2009
Humble Hope in Hard Times
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: April 8, 2009
Inspired by the visit of Pope John Paul II to Uruguay in 1988, ���The Pope���s Toilet��� cloaks religious critique in the scrappy tempo of irremediable poverty and irrepressible enterprise.
Set in Melo, a godforsaken village near the Uruguay-Brazil border, the movie tracks the misfortunes of a dirt-poor petty smuggler named Beto (C��sar Troncoso, resembling a less-exfoliated Omar Sharif). While his neighbors ecstatically prepare for a windfall from feeding the thousands of Brazilian faithful expected to attend the papal visit ��� one fearless entrepreneur even takes out a bank loan to buy sausage meat ��� Beto���s hopes rest on the opposite end of the digestive tract. If he builds a public convenience, who wouldn���t want to spend a peso?
Written and directed by Enrique Fern��ndez and C��sar Charlone, ���The Pope���s Toilet��� uses a seamless blend of professional and nonprofessional actors to take an oblique dig at a church that, the movie suggests, may have failed its most disadvantaged followers. Both filmmakers are Uruguayan (Mr. Fern��ndez was born in Melo), so the hardscrabble details are touchingly credible, generating a tone of profound sadness ��� located most affectingly in the journalism-career dreams of Beto���s teenage daughter ��� that Mr. Charlone���s upbeat cinematography works hard to dispel. Despite the whimsical title, this is a movie that offers little in the way of relief, for villagers and audiences alike.
THE POPE���S TOILET
Opens on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Directed by Enrique Fern��ndez and C��sar Charlone; written by Mr. Fern��ndez and Mr. Charlone, based on an original script by Mr. Fern��ndez; director of photography, Mr. Charlone; produced by Elena Roux; released by Film Movement. At the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes. This film is not rated.
WITH: C��sar Troncoso (Beto), Virginia M��ndez (Carmen), Virginia Ruiz (Silvia), Mario Silva (Valvulina), Henry De Leon (Nacente) and Jos�� Arce (Tica).
Museum of Modern Art
C��sar Troncoso in ���The Pope���s Toilet��� at MoMA.
April 8, 2009
Humble Hope in Hard Times
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: April 8, 2009
Inspired by the visit of Pope John Paul II to Uruguay in 1988, ���The Pope���s Toilet��� cloaks religious critique in the scrappy tempo of irremediable poverty and irrepressible enterprise.
Set in Melo, a godforsaken village near the Uruguay-Brazil border, the movie tracks the misfortunes of a dirt-poor petty smuggler named Beto (C��sar Troncoso, resembling a less-exfoliated Omar Sharif). While his neighbors ecstatically prepare for a windfall from feeding the thousands of Brazilian faithful expected to attend the papal visit ��� one fearless entrepreneur even takes out a bank loan to buy sausage meat ��� Beto���s hopes rest on the opposite end of the digestive tract. If he builds a public convenience, who wouldn���t want to spend a peso?
Written and directed by Enrique Fern��ndez and C��sar Charlone, ���The Pope���s Toilet��� uses a seamless blend of professional and nonprofessional actors to take an oblique dig at a church that, the movie suggests, may have failed its most disadvantaged followers. Both filmmakers are Uruguayan (Mr. Fern��ndez was born in Melo), so the hardscrabble details are touchingly credible, generating a tone of profound sadness ��� located most affectingly in the journalism-career dreams of Beto���s teenage daughter ��� that Mr. Charlone���s upbeat cinematography works hard to dispel. Despite the whimsical title, this is a movie that offers little in the way of relief, for villagers and audiences alike.
THE POPE���S TOILET
Opens on Wednesday in Manhattan.
Directed by Enrique Fern��ndez and C��sar Charlone; written by Mr. Fern��ndez and Mr. Charlone, based on an original script by Mr. Fern��ndez; director of photography, Mr. Charlone; produced by Elena Roux; released by Film Movement. At the Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters, Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53rd Street. In Spanish, with English subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 37 minutes. This film is not rated.
WITH: C��sar Troncoso (Beto), Virginia M��ndez (Carmen), Virginia Ruiz (Silvia), Mario Silva (Valvulina), Henry De Leon (Nacente) and Jos�� Arce (Tica).
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