{"id":224,"date":"2006-02-20T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T22:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/?p=37"},"modified":"2006-02-20T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2006-02-20T22:15:26","slug":"american-visa-2005-film-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaveweb.com\/blog\/american-visa-2005-film-review\/","title":{"rendered":"American Visa (2005) – Film Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

American Visa (2005) posterAmerican Visa is about a Bolivian English teacher who’s trying to get to the US but faces no end of troubles getting his visa at the INS. He eventually turns to crime to get enough money to bribe his way through the red tape. It didn’t quite come to that in my case, but very nearly\u2026 Anyroad, the film ain’t bad, it has some very nice shots of La Paz, especially by night, and it’s fast moving enough. Where it falls down (heavily) is the ‘love’ story between the main bloke, Mario and lap dancer Blanca (Nefertiti) which beggars belief. Once again, corruption and crime is the main theme for the film which sits in firmly in the Latin American school of cinema. Nice to see the US getting the same treatment too, though. Unfortunately there were no subtitles and I had a fair bit of trouble with the accent, especially Blanca’s who sounds like a Bonaerensian with a speech defect. So maybe that’s my fault. Overall, to use local newspaper, El P\u00fablico’s rating system, dominguera (Sundayish) but with some nice cinematographic flourishes.
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