A Dios Momo, 2006

Directed by Leonardo Ricagni
Starring: Mathias Acuña, Jorge Esmoris, Washington Luna
 From Uruguay

sez says:  Please, someone edit this into a watchable version.    It has lovely visuals, and I can understand that it could be hard to decide which parts to cut--but cuts need to be made.  It is too long for the subject matter: Toward the end there were at least a half dozen (maybe more) perfectly good places to stop--but it just kept going on. At our screening a whole group got up and left about 10 minutes before the film ended.  The story was done, but the movie wouldn't stop. 

Te story is slight, yet one we all applaud. The child does not want to go to school.  All the adults in his life keep telling him he must. And seeing a community of people surround and offer love to this child is an encouraging example of how if each person in a community does their little bit to help each other, all of us will benefit esp the most vulnerable.   This does not create any dramatic tension but the story is done with much creative abandon and beauty so it is not unpleasant to watch....until it doesn't stop.  Then you start feeling like it isn't worth the time.

And, buy the way, the acting is also great. Mathias Acuna in particular is a delightful young actor full of grace and personality. GRADE C- (with proper editing the grade could go way up).