Festival 3 Continents
Compétition internationale
46th edition
NOV. 15>23, 2024, Nantes France

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Monte Adentro
(Monte Adentro)

by Nicolás Macario ALONSO

Still 4 MONTE ADENTRO

The Colombian village of Mirador in the Risaralda Province displays its letters on a hillside, H.O.L.L.Y.W.O.O.D. style. Alonso left his native province of Caldas, where his brother Novier still resides. The frame of the film is set by the words of their mother, who seems to have married not just a mule driver, but also the muleteering tradition lock, stock and barrel. Even Alonso, who became a cobbler, nails the heel of women’s shoes as he would a mule’s. The brothers’ parallel lives, which are not depicted through a facile effect of contrast, are precarious, laborious and taciturn. The cowboy and the itinerant cobbler, each in their own way, are the last offspring of a mode of life that we sense is on the brink of extinction. What impresses above all is the skill of their gestures and their knowledge and mastery of every corner of the rugged terrain. The repetitiveness of their silentious lives in the first descriptive part of the film does not foreshadow the second more narrative and talkative part – a Wagon Master-like convoy sets out when a mountain doctor hires them to move his furniture by mule.

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  • Titre français
    Monte Adentro
  • Original title
    Monte Adentro
  • Photo
    Mauricio Vidal
  • Montage
    Felipe Guerrero
  • Son
    Miller Castro, José R. Jaramillo
  • Musique
    Alejandro Ramírez Rojas
  • Interprétation
    Novier Valencia, Alonso Valencia, Blanca González de Valencia
  • Production
    FLOR DE PRODUCCIONES
  • Producteur délégué
    Nicolás Macario Alonso, Heike Maria Fischer
  • Ventes internationales
    FLOR DE PRODUCCIONES : hmariafischer@flordeproducciones.com
  • Support de projection
    DCP
  • Sous-titrage
    VOST électronique

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