Despite some good individual scenes, I wasn't terribly impressed with this film from Peru. Is about Rosa Chumbe, a forty something policewoman working the streets of Lima. She is a mediocre police officer, often dozing in her office. Her superior warns her several time that this is her last chance, and if she continues like that she will be fired, yet one minute later he asks her to escort his trophy wife to a shopping trip. Rosa lives in a tiny apartment with her young daughter, who has a baby and has become pregnant again. Rosa can't get along with her daughter and they often fight, and has often to take care of her baby when her daughter is out of the house. No man, either for her of her daughter, is around in the house. The inarticulate Rosa only laughs when watching an awful live show on TV in which a comedian tells horribly unfunny jokes. The ending, suggesting a religious miracle to get her out of her predicament is the worst thing in the film. There is nothing wrong in making films about poor, downtrodden people, but one has to avoid wallowing in miserabilism.
Review of Rosa Chumbe
