{"id":401356,"date":"2022-01-28T20:41:05","date_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:41:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/watch-utama-review-home-is-where-the-water-is\/"},"modified":"2022-01-28T20:41:05","modified_gmt":"2022-01-28T17:41:05","slug":"watch-utama-review-home-is-where-the-water-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-utama-review-home-is-where-the-water-is\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch &#8216;Utama&#8217; Review: Home Is Where the Water Is"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be2ebbd42e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3be2ebbd42e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-utama-review-home-is-where-the-water-is\/#%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Utama_Review_Home_Is_Where_the_Water_Is%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Utama&#8217; Review: Home Is Where the Water Is&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-2\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-utama-review-home-is-where-the-water-is\/#%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Utama_Review_Home_Is_Where_the_Water_Is%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;&#8216;Utama&#8217; Review: Home Is Where the Water Is&#8221;<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-utama-review-home-is-where-the-water-is\/#optional_screen_reader\" >optional screen reader<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-4' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-4'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/watch-utama-review-home-is-where-the-water-is\/#Read_More_About\" >Read More About:<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CWatch_Online_%E2%80%98Utama_Review_Home_Is_Where_the_Water_Is%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Watch Online &#8216;Utama&#8217; Review: Home Is Where the Water Is&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9C%E2%80%98Utama_Review_Home_Is_Where_the_Water_Is%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;&#8216;Utama&#8217; Review: Home Is Where the Water Is&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<div>\n                        When one is asked to picture those who are most impacted by global warming, the imagination flashes to Inuits on a melting ice floe or Maldives natives threatened by rising tides, not Bolivian shepherds who graze their livestock on the Altiplano, nearly 12,000 feet above sea level. But the residents of these remote highlands are also endangered, as director Alejandro Loayza Grisi reveals in his sublime, quietly elegiac feature debut, \u201cUtama,\u201d focusing on an elderly couple who refuse to relocate to the nearby city of La Paz, even as mountain glaciers melt, rains become less reliable and their herd of llamas slowly succumb to dehydration.<\/p>\n<p>Played by actual couple Jos\u00e9 Calcina and Luisa Quispe (authentic, nonprofessional actors whom Loayza Grisi had to convince to participate), long-married Virginio and Sisa share a small mud house without electricity or running water. Fetching water has always been a chore for Sisa \u2014 that\u2019s her responsibility, Virginio sternly reminds her, whereas he handles the animals \u2014 but lately, it\u2019s become harder than ever. Normally, she can find what she needs in the nearby town, but the well has run dry, and it\u2019s a long walk to the shrinking river, which has dwindled to hardly the width of a one-lane road. Soon it may be no more.<\/p>\n<p>Few would envy Virginio and Sisa their ascetic existence, and yet, it\u2019s all the pair have ever known \u2014 and they have no intention of leaving. The film\u2019s title means \u201cour home\u201d in their Quechua dialect, and these two intend to die there, despite the polite <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>eals of their grandson Clever (Santos Choque), who visits the couple with the mission of convincing them to move to the city. He\u2019s a typical millennial, always on his phone, oblivious to the beauty all around him, whereas Loayza Grisi bows in awe of the film\u2019s locations.<\/p>\n<p>Before turning to cinema, the helmer worked as a still photographer, and together with DP Barbara Alvarez (\u201cThe Headless Woman\u201d), he conceived a distinct visual sensibility for the film. From the breathtaking opening shot \u2014 of Virginio walking alone across a dark dry plain, toward the blazing sunrise beyond the mountains \u2014 the film looks quite unlike anything else. <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Movies<\/a> made in this corner of South America are so few, so seldom exported, the scenery alone seizes the imagination, rendering spiritual what might seem mundane if we only saw it more often. So many buy calendars to have the same view this couple enjoys from their front yard. Can it last?<\/p>\n<p>When rains don\u2019t come, Virginio joins a handful of others on a mission: The community must sacrifice one of their animals to the deity who controls the weather \u2014 a ritual they call \u201csowing water on the mountain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When the characters are outdoors, \u201cUtama\u201d is told largely in dramatic hi-def long shots, the widescreen horizon typically centered in the frame, faded blue skies above, cracked earth below, the humans reduced to little more than tiny silhouettes. Indoors, things are more intimate, as the camera shares the room where the couple sleep. Here, \u201cUtama\u201d observes its characters in close-up, basking in the comfort of silences made possible by years of marriage. A gesture as simple as Sisa reaching for Virginio\u2019s hand at the table says everything about the soul mates: They are one another\u2019s world.<\/p>\n<p>Between them, speech is scarce and largely unnecessary \u2014 or so they think. Lately, Virginio hasn\u2019t been well. He suffers from a cough, which he tries to keep hidden from his wife. Every day, he takes the llamas out to graze. The bright pink tassels pinned to their ears supply a dose of color against the desiccated vistas. In one scene, Virginio shuffles to where Sisa sits in the garden and puts his head in her lap without saying a word. Is he telling her something? Turns out, these two have their secrets.<\/p>\n<p>Clever may be clueless in some respects, but it doesn\u2019t take him long to realize that something\u2019s wrong. He fetches a doctor to examine his grandfather, insisting that they return with him to the city. But what would they do there? These two generations don\u2019t even speak the same language.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTime has gotten tired,\u201d a village friend tells Virginio in Quechua. Virginio is tired, too, but also stubborn. Most of the houses in town have been abandoned, but he isn\u2019t leaving \u2014 unless it\u2019s to go to \u201cthe lake\u201d to die, as is their custom. Is that where Virginio was headed in the opening shot? He tells Clever a story of how the condor commits suicide \u201cwhen he feels he\u2019s not useful anymore.\u201d These majestic birds serve as a recurring motif throughout the film, watching over the changing land like gods (while climate change remains the unspoken culprit). Conservationists have classified the Andean condor as \u201cnear threatened,\u201d which would be a good way to describe the Indigenous denizens of the Altiplano as well. How much longer will the people of \u201cUtama\u201d have a home?<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-tags \/\/ a-children-icon-bullet lrv-u-font-family-primary u-letter-spacing-012 lrv-u-line-height-large lrv-u-color-brand-primary\">\n<h2 id=\"optional-screen-reader\" class=\"lrv-a-screen-reader-only\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"optional_screen_reader\"><\/span>\n        optional screen reader  <span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n<nav class=\"o-nav  o-nav lrv-u-border-b-1 u-border-color-brand-secondary-40 lrv-u-border-t-1 lrv-u-text-align-center lrv-u-padding-b-025 u-padding-t-050@desktop u-padding-t-050@tablet u-padding-t-050@mobile-max lrv-u-margin-t-2 lrv-u-margin-b-2\" data-dropdown=\"\">\n<h4 id=\"\" class=\"o-nav__title lrv-u-color-black lrv-u-font-family-secondary o-nav__title a-content-ignore u-line-height-140 u-letter-spacing-0002\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Read_More_About\"><\/span>Read More About:<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h4>\n<\/nav>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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