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Paraguayan Hammock

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An old farmer (Ramon Del Rio) and his wife (Georgina Genes) wait for their son to return home from war.

Critics Reviews

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Richard Brody The New Yorker 02/06/2017
Encina's film, balanced exquisitely between the concrete and the abstract, between the specific and the absolute, is a quietly devastating indictment of the eternal waste of youth as cannon fodder in this and all wars. Go to Full Review
Nathan Lee New York Times 05/14/2008
4.5/5
That Paraguayan Hammock happens to be one of the few features to emerge from Paraguay in recent decades in no way diminishes its rarity. Go to Full Review
J. Hoberman Village Voice 05/14/2008
Paraguayan Hammock is like a piece of music that improves with familiarity. Go to Full Review
Matthew Nestel Boxoffice Magazine 05/16/2008
3.5/5
The thrust of this film is faint but steady. At times, you are really looking for something in the long-holding shot, and it's just not there. The point? Not to look too hard. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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07/22/2010 Esperar desespera... See more 04/08/2010 Ici ecrasante, la lenteur n'est jamais gage de qualite, et n'est pas une forme d'expression en soi. See more 01/06/2010 I'm sure Frasier would have loved a double bill of this and 'Noch ein Stuhl'. See more 06/25/2009 Hey - beautifully strange but mesmerising film all the more powerful for it's stark and melancholic tale of a simple couple waiting for the return of their son from some distant war. The story unfolds slowy, with flashbacks and day-to-day issues interwoven against a subtle atmosphere of rumbling thunder, a barking dog and a fond bickering that only comes from great familiarity. The final exit scene, complete with flickering lamp to indicate their fragile hope, is a great analogy for the final journey and it's a blissful promise of release. Quality film, worth a watch. See more 05/18/2009 An old couple sittin' in a hammock, waiting for rain and their son to return? Can do, or so i thought. But, jeez, even I have limits. See more 04/24/2009 A peculiar but interesting style, the majority of film is in long shot, and there's probably less than 20 cuts in the whole thing. It's not really about the style though, more a voice over retrospective of coming to terms with the loss of a sun. Very strange, difficult to watch, but it does have something about it. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

Synopsis An old farmer (Ramon Del Rio) and his wife (Georgina Genes) wait for their son to return home from war.
Director
Paz Encina
Producer
Marianne Slot, Lita Stantic, Ilse Hughan, José María Morales
Screenwriter
Paz Encina
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Guarani
Runtime
1h 18m
Sound Mix
Dolby Digital