Ixcanul

Dec. 28th, 2018 11:02 am
asakiyume: actually nyiragongo (ruby lake)
[personal profile] asakiyume
A while ago I saw Tanna (2015), a love story that takes place in Vanuatu and involves a volcano, and is acted entirely in the local languages, Nauvhal and Nafe. Well it turns out that 2015 was *the* year for movies featuring a volcano and acted in non-dominant languages, because that was the year that Ixcanul, a film set on the slopes of a volcano and acted almost entirely in Kaqchikel, a Mayan language, came out. A couple of nights ago, we saw it.

The trailer for it might lead you to believe it was a love story, and the Netflix blurb is accurate only for the first third or maybe half the film ("A Mayan girl working on a Guatemalan coffee plantation dreams of escaping an arranged marriage to make a new life in America")

Instead, it went in directions I didn't expect, with characters acting in ways I didn't expect (but was gratified by), developing, in particular, a really touching mother-daughter relationship, but there are all sorts of touches, small and large, that appealed (including, for example, some tenacious, and dangerous, but also sacred, snakes).



Has anyone else seen it? What did you think?

Date: 2018-12-30 07:03 am (UTC)
sovay: (Haruspex: Autumn War)
From: [personal profile] sovay
Has anyone else seen it? What did you think?

I've never heard of it, but I am delighted to know it exists! I hope you can find a third indigenous-language volcano movie and make it a genre.

Date: 2018-12-30 07:40 pm (UTC)
sovay: (Haruspex: Autumn War)
From: [personal profile] sovay
For geographical variation it should either be Icelandic or maybe Kihunde

Well, it wasn't made in 2015, but it looks like you've got Icelandic.

Date: 2018-12-31 12:43 am (UTC)
sovay: (Cho Hakkai: intelligence)
From: [personal profile] sovay
A++!! I will look for it...

I look forward to your volcano trifecta report!

Date: 2018-12-30 08:17 pm (UTC)
sartorias: (Default)
From: [personal profile] sartorias
Hoe did I miss this post? I am so confused.

Anyway, it sounds very interesting. I'll add it to my Netflix queue (which, sigh, is so very, very long . . .)

Date: 2018-12-31 12:45 am (UTC)
sovay: (Rotwang)
From: [personal profile] sovay
I think that combination--or maybe even just one or the other of the things (either the postdating or the initial private setting) meant that it didn't show up in people's feeds.

I've never deliberately post-dated a Dreamwidth entry, but I've had the set date and time of entries de-synch accidentally from their actual posting time and it has definitely resulted in fewer comments; I've always assumed the entries in question were not showing up for my friendlist properly. I've never had any idea of what to do about it. Reposting seems stupid, so I don't do it. I'm glad that pointing backward worked.

Date: 2019-01-02 08:05 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] wayfaringwordhack
I haven't seen it, but it sounds like something I would like. We just watched Alpha with the kids, and the not understanding the spoken language (in this case made up) was not a big deal. In fact, with kids, who often interrupt every couple of lines, it actually made for a pretty stress-free viewing. ROFL

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