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A Place Called Chiapas (1998)Director:Nettie Wild |
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Title: A Place Called Chiapas (1998)
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CanadaRelease Date:
7 May 1998 (Germany) See more »Box Office
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$891,000 (estimated)Opening Weekend:
$8,639 (USA) (9 April 1999)Gross:
$229,793 (USA) (6 August 1999)Company Credits
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British Columbia Arts Council, British Columbia Film Commission, Canada Council for the Arts See more »
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It's far from polished, but as always a documentary camera in sympathetic hands can capture unexpected and vital truths about a tough political situation. In this case, although the Zapatista commandants themselves are a fairly sympathetic lot, their dreams of revolution are being fought by the far more moving 2,000 (now more) very poor, powerless and uncertain people in the northern part of Chiapas -- people who have no guns and very little voice. If it did nothing else, the film awakened me to that part of the problem. Marcos comes off as something of a poseur, but since he has been there twelve years you want to have faith that he and his anonymous comrades will prove to be the heroes the indigenous people need.