Whisky (2004)

good back-story, and good acting

Just intense enough to provide a much-needed diversion, just lightweight enough to make you forget about it soon after it’s over. It’s not exactly “good,” per se, but it does what it sets out to do in terms of putting us on edge, which makes it … successful?

Easily the biggest piece of Right wing non sense propaganda I ever saw.

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

This is a superb film that catches you completely by surprise. It is very disarming in the way the story is told because it is so casual and nonchalant, so much so that when the reality of what actually happens hits you it is really something. Talk about surprise! It's like a slug to the gut and you sit there trying to catch your breath wondering how something like this could have happened and you never saw it coming. Actually, in retrospect, there were clues, really obvious clues but somehow they are ignored until the film is over and you start to piece it all together and realize the unimaginable has happened. The central figure in the story is the woman and everything revolves around her but she is a complete mouse, always agreeable, hardly a threat to anyone until all hell breaks loose and she turns out to be a tsunami.

In America photographers exclaim, "Say Cheese!", to elicit a smile, but in Uraguay, it's, "Say Whisky!". WHISKY, co-directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, is a droll and dead-pan character study set in Uraquay. Jacobo is a Jewish, 60 year old sock factory owner (it's actually more of a 'shop'}, who invites his more successful brother to attend their mother's final internment. Jacobo has spent a significant portion of his life nursing their dying mother, and after her passing, his life is completely devoid of any emotional attachment, while Herman has married and raised a family. So to demonstrate the barest degree of social validation, Jacobo asks his shop assistant, Marta, to pose as his wife for the few days of Herman's visit. Not a lot happens, although the trio travels to the resort town of Piripolis, but it's off-season and they are almost by themselves and there is little to do. The plot is secondary to the studied and calculated performance of the three main characters who enact a desperately throttled search for emotional connectivity. If you enjoy the films of Abstract Expressionist, Jim Jarmusch, you'll probably love this whimsically comical gem of a film. Since so much of the narrative is conveyed by austere and simple mannerisms of the three principle lead characters, WHISKY is reminiscent of the classic silent films of the past. WHISKY is a rewarding cinematic experience which truly embodies the belief that, 'Less Is More'.

this movie is just plain awful, dull characters, superficial storyline,no humor. tension, twists or anything challenging whatsoever you just keep wondering what the hell you've just watched for the past 90 minutes, because there is actually nothing going on in there. i just can't find one good thing about this movie it's boring, and you actually feel like it's gonna last forever, let me describe it that way: take 3 middle aged people, and let them spend couple of days together babbling nonsense on and on. and that's what you gonna get if you feel like sleeping. i usually watch lots of foreign movies and this is the worst iv'e seen this year, go watch the sea inside. cause this one just don't worth 90 minutes of your precious time.

And the bite is memorable.I've been somewhat ... reluctant about long atmospheric mood setting shots where the fast-forward button becomes irresistible. The thing with this movie is that if you -like me- become fascinated at the beginning it's impossible to fast-forward anything as "indulgent" as it may seem, everything is directly (not even poetically) related to the movie, so much detail and so underplayed like our everyday lives.. Except it looks so pretty, and it all just hits you like a ton of bricks.I'm not completely sure about the absolute need to know Spanish in order to enjoy this film, because the acting is superb. You could almost follow the movie by watching the expressions and body language.