The deadpan style of Jim Jarmusch meets Aki Kaurismaki's wry sensibility
in this perversely funny story set in Montevideo, Uruguay. On the first
anniversary of his mother's death, Jacobo, the perpetually sullen owner
of a small, struggling sock factory asks his most attentive (and equally
sullen) employee, Marta, to pose as his wife for a few days to avoid the
potentially shameful scrutiny of his brother, Herman, who is arriving for
a visit. "A deadpan comedy shot through with a vein of despair... Whisky
is a pint-size pleasure. The story of two souls seemingly stuck in neutral
(with a third in relentless drive), the film is a model of both fiscal and
narrative economy, and the kind of work—gleaned from the mysteries
of consciousness, telling quotidian details and a sense of aesthetic proportion—that
is too often missing from American independent cinema." (NY Times)
In Portuguese and Spanish with English subtitles. 35mm.
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2005, color, 1 hour 39 minutes, Uruguay/Argentina/Germany/Spain