Product Description

{WINNER! FIPRESCI Prize & Prix Du Regard Original, Cannes Film Festival}
{WINNER! Special Jury prize, Chicago International Film Festival}
{WINNER of 17 Awards Worldwide! }

The deadpan style of Jim Jarmusch meets Aki Kaurismaki's wry sensibility in this perversely funny story WHISKY, set in Montevideo, Uruguay. When Jacobo, a lonely sock factory owner, hears about the impending visit of his irritatingly cheerful brother, who he hasn't seen in years, he enlists his faithful assistant Marta to pretend to be his wife. However, the game of deception grows more intense as Herman insists they all take a trip to an off-season seaside resort, and Marta's true personality begins to subtly emerge to both Herman and Jacobo, and the ordinariness of everyday life is finally begins to shift.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #59788 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-03-21
• Rating: Unrated
• Aspect ratio: 1.66:1
• Formats: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Original language: Italian, Portuguese, Spanish
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 94 minutes

Review
Masterfully understated comic performances exploit an achingly potent seam of wit just below the surface... a memorably clever and subtle work-- will leave you with a vicious grin. --British Broadcasting Corporation

Review
A marvelous Uruguayan film, WHISKY, became one of the festival's most touted offerings.... A sly, haunting tale... the final scene is one of the most perfect and self-assured moments of the year. --Richard Pena, Film Comment

Review
The story of two souls seemingly stuck in neutral (with a third in relentless drive)... a model of both fiscal and narrative economy, and the kind of work gleaned from the mysteries of consciousness... that is too often missing from American independent cinema. ...The story of ordinary life artfully and touchingly told. --The New York Times

Customer Reviews

Uruguayan Gem
A quietly powerful and touching film. Aside from giving North American viewers a rare and fascinating glimpse of a country (Uruguay) that has for so long languished in the shadow of bigger neighbors Argentina and Brazil, Whisky delivers an antidote to the photogenic violence and exoticized romance that in recent decades have tended to dominate both international distribution of Latin American cinema and (perhaps as a consequence) the North's perception of the region. At the same time, this impeccably acted and directed film offers a timely but low-key critique of the effects of the global economy on the kind of marginally poor--but not destitute or violent--people that comprise the majority of Latin America's inhabitants. The film does so without caving in to the demands of the market, which explains its slow pace and also its failure get nominated for an Oscar--a nomination it most certainly deserved.

A tour de force through the Uruguayan world.
Juan Pablo Rebella, the director of this movie, committed suicide on July 5th 2006, a couple of months after the big hit in Cannes. It seems to me, this movie was really his opera prima and terminal film at the same time. Extraordinary lethargic piece of art. Honest and simple, the two hardest thing to do in filmmaking. I only wish we could have enjoyed more of his work and talent. Descansa en Paz amigo Rebella.

Whisky
This subtle Uruguayan gem gives new meaning to the term "deadpan comedy", but its nuanced humor, mixed with some very real human drama, makes a refreshing antidote to all the obvious, strained comedies which constantly inundate us. All three lead performances are blisteringly honest: the trio play off each other like seasoned Philharmonic musicians. A poignant, understated slice of life from directors Rebella and Stoll.