8 reviews
Interesting
- nwcstradling
- Jun 21, 2013
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It forces you to sit down and just enjoy watching an interesting sequence of events.
- dipesh-parmar
- Jan 13, 2014
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The most beautiful film I have seen in years
I saw this film without knowing much about it except that there was a migration of some Welsh people from Europe to Patagonia in the 1865. There are two stories unfolding simultaneously in the present day; one of a Welsh couple travelling in Patagonia and the other of an elderly grandmother and her teenage nephew travelling in Wales in search of her mother's farm. Each story is utterly convincingly told, amid breathtaking textures of Argentinan and Walsh landscapes and although there is no connection at all between them, the two stories balance each other perfectly in the way the relationships develop.
This film is of course in Spanish and Welsh but is intelligently subtitled in English so as not to damage the film's beauty.
This film is of course in Spanish and Welsh but is intelligently subtitled in English so as not to damage the film's beauty.
Excellent, Bendigedig, Maravillosa!
- gymnast_01
- Mar 8, 2011
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Woefully thin plot and over-long
- keith-binding
- Sep 25, 2011
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Refreshing film and unlike most others
- jeremy-272-943845
- Jan 21, 2012
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Implausible ending
culture switch
Marc Evans's "Patagonia" is one of the many movies that focuses on cultures that we don't usually see. In this case, it's Argentina's Welsh community. The movie contains two parallel stories: one is a Welsh couple that goes to Argentina to photograph the Welsh chapel in Patagonia, the other is an elderly Argentine woman who goes to Wales to see her ancestral farm. Both sets of people will have quite the experience.
This is one of only two movies that I've seen in which Welsh gets spoken; the other is "Hedd Wyn", about a noted Welsh poet (both movies were the United Kingdom's submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film). Both movies cast a perceptive eye on the Welsh culture. And in this one, we get to see both the Argentine plains and the Welsh countryside. You'll probably want to go to both countries after seeing it. Outstanding movie.
This is one of only two movies that I've seen in which Welsh gets spoken; the other is "Hedd Wyn", about a noted Welsh poet (both movies were the United Kingdom's submission to the Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film). Both movies cast a perceptive eye on the Welsh culture. And in this one, we get to see both the Argentine plains and the Welsh countryside. You'll probably want to go to both countries after seeing it. Outstanding movie.
- lee_eisenberg
- May 28, 2018
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