Humble Hope in Hard Times
di Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times
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 (César Troncoso, resembling a less-exfoliated Omar Sharif). [...]
di Jeannette Catsoulis, articolo completo (1491 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 8 aprile 2009