The revolution and the land, Gonzalo Benavente Secco's third film, brings to the present an issue that many find thorny and even uncomfortable: the agrarian reform led by Juan Velasco Alvarado. Far from partisan fanaticism or blinding ideology, the 37-year-old national filmmaker addresses the impact of the political, social and economic measures initiated by the military, through multiple voices and an exhaustive archival work that seeks to rediscover the figure of the former President. Next, we present an interview with the director that helps to understand his interest in a controversial chapter in our history.
His documentary has brought nearly 30,000 viewers to theaters in less than two weeks. Did you imagine this reception taking into account that the documentary is not a genre that has historically connected with the Peruvian public?
official speech in the absence of other lines of thought that dialogue with it. The movie has tried to question those ideas and see how true or not they are. The revolution and the land is inserted in a debate in which there are many people who think that Velasco is the worst thing that happened to Peru and others who see him as the best president this country has ever had. We have tried to explore the middle ground, because we think the truth is in the middle ground.
¿Del XX century with Cinema is a collective work. If the film ends up as you imagined it at the beginning, it is because you did not do your job well because other voices were not integrated that made the project grow. The revolution and the earth is better than it could have been thanks to all the people who collaborated in the research such as Grecia Barbieri, co-writer, with whom we discussed this project for years. I have always believed that cinema is a vision of the world, therefore, it responds to a political discourse, not necessarily partisan or propagandist politics, but a vision of how your society should be, how your family should be, how your relationship should be as a couple or how you should be yourself. By having a vision of the world, you are already adopting a political discourse. So, we were very clear that, although we should try to include all voices, because it is a documentary that is told through the multiplicity of v
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The revolution and the land, Gonzalo Benavente Secco's third film, brings to the present an issue that many find thorny and even uncomfortable: the agrarian reform led by Juan Velasco Alvarado. Far from partisan fanaticism or blinding ideology, the 37-year-old national filmmaker addresses the impact of the political, social and economic measures initiated by the military, through multiple voices and an exhaustive archival work that seeks to rediscover the figure of the former President. Next, we present an interview with the director that helps to understand his interest in a controversial chapter in our history.
His documentary has brought nearly 30,000 viewers to theaters in less than two weeks. Did you imagine this reception taking into account that the documentary is not a genre that has historically connected with the Peruvian public?
official speech in the absence of other lines of thought that dialogue with it. The movie has tried to question those ideas and see how true or not they are. The revolution and the land is inserted in a debate in which there are many people who think that Velasco is the worst thing that happened to Peru and others who see him as the best president this country has ever had. We have tried to explore the middle ground, because we think the truth is in the middle ground.
¿Del XX century with Cinema is a collective work. If the film ends up as you imagined it at the beginning, it is because you did not do your job well because other voices were not integrated that made the project grow. The revolution and the earth is better than it could have been thanks to all the people who collaborated in the research such as Grecia Barbieri, co-writer, with whom we discussed this project for years. I have always believed that cinema is a vision of the world, therefore, it responds to a political discourse, not necessarily partisan or propagandist politics, but a vision of how your society should be, how your family should be, how your relationship should be as a couple or how you should be yourself. By having a vision of the world, you are already adopting a political discourse. So, we were very clear that, although we should try to include all voices, because it is a documentary that is told through the multiplicity of v