Araya
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- Synopsis
- Shown at Cannes in 1959, the year after Venezuela's last dictator Marcos Perez-Jimenez was overthrown, the documentary inadvertently highlights the kind of exploitation of the poor that can lead to rebellion....
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- Director(s)
- Margot Benacerraf
- Distributor(s)
- Milestone Films
- MPAA Rating
- Not Rated
- Runtime
- 82 min.
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Critic Reviews
The 1959 film's style is dated, but it is visually glorious and tells a fascinating story.Read the full review
As a piece of documentary filmmaking though, Araya is more noteworthy for what it reveals about a changing artform than for what it has to say about its subjects.Read the full review
Whatever visual poetry the film possesses is overwhelmed by the thuddingly bad and nearly ceaseless narration, written by Ms. Benacerraf and Pierre Seghers.Read the full review
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85% Araya
11/05/09 The restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant films Reveron and Araya will be a landmark in cinema history. | Rotten Tomatoes -
83% Araya
10/23/09 The restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant films Reveron and Araya will be a landmark in cinema history. | Rotten Tomatoes -
82% Araya
10/09/09 The restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant films Reveron and Araya will be a landmark in cinema history. | Rotten Tomatoes -
Film: Review:Araya
10/08/09 Fifty years after Margot Benacerraf's documentary Araya played in competition at the Cannes film festival—in the year of The 400 Blows and Hiroshima Mon Amour , no less—it's been beautifully restored for a belated U.S. release. | The A.V. Club -
Araya
10/06/09 The restoration of Margot Benacerraf's brilliant films Reveron and Araya will be a landmark in cinema history. | Rotten Tomatoes -
A gem, salted away
10/06/09 AS somebody once said, good things come to those who wait. | New York Post - New York NY -
Ozon, Moodysson and von Trier On Tap For IFC Center’s Fall Series
10/06/09 Beginning a two week run tomorrow, October 7, is Margot Benacerraf's landmark film on Venezuela's salt marshes, "Araya." | indieWIRE -
REVIEW | Eternal Beauty: Margot Benacerraf’s “Araya”
10/05/09 Continuing its mission to rescue lost classics from obscurity, Milestone Films follows up recently restored releases "Killer of Sheep" and "The Exiles" with Margot Benacerraf's lyrical and commanding "Araya," a film which, though it shared the International Critics Prize with "Hiroshima mon amour" at Cannes in 1959, has eluded wide distribution until now. | indieWIRE -
C'mon, Get Unhappy
10/05/09 Chris Rock's daughter is unhappy with her hair, a '70s feminist movement is unhappy with their options, and Jason Ritter and Jess Weixler are unhappy with each other. | Independent Film Channel (IFC)