Whisky - 2004 - Trailer

Whisky is an Uruguayan tragicomedy film directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll and released in 2004.[1] The film stars Andrés Pazos, Mirella Pascual, Jorge Bolani, Ana Katz, and Daniel Hendler. It was premiered at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival where it won a Prix du Regard Original Award.

The film was well received by film critics and at the film festival it was screened. Critic Manohla Dargis, writing for the New York Times said, "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."

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In 2001, a small film, 25 Watts, shot in black-and-white in 16mm for $200,000, won prizes at the festivals of Rotterdam, Buenos Aires and Havana, and got widely distributed. What was unusual was that the film was co-directed by two 26-year-olds, Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll, who came from Uruguay, a country hardly ever associated with cinema. Three years later, the duo had an even bigger success, with Whisky, and were busy writing a much-anticipated third screenplay when Rebella, aged 32, committed suicide.

Rebella and Stoll were both born in Montevideo, and got to know each other at the Catholic University of Montevideo when they were studying communications. They then both worked in publicity and television, co-writing and directing an animation series entitled El Service, and two acclaimed shorts, Buenos y Santos and Victor y los Elejidos. This led to the fresh and funny 25 Watts, which follows three young layabouts during a weekend in Monte-video, when they try to allay boredom by drinking beer, talking about girls and philosophising about life.

Offering reasons for their country's meagre cinematic output, Rebella and Stoll said: "It is extremely difficult to produce a film in Uruguay because it is difficult to produce anything at all in Uruguay." They also revealed, jokingly, that the only Uruguayan in the Guinness Book of Records is a man who clapped his hands non-stop for five days.

The wonderfully droll and award-winning Whisky consolidated their position and put Uruguay firmly on the cinematic map. Yet the directors only managed to scrape together enough money to make the film with the help of individuals and businesses from several countries.

An example of the production's hand-to-mouth existence was that the car driven by one of the main characters was sold to a junkyard during the eight-week shoot. "Why, after a youthful and autobiographical film like 25 Watts, did we produce a film about two 60-year-old Jewish brothers, a woman and a stocking factory?" asked Rebella. "Well, as we wrote the script, we started to realise that perhaps these characters were not so different from ourselves; that we were not so far away from this kind of loneliness. They could be a projection of ourselves in 20 or 30 years time." "Whisky" is the Uruguayan equivalent of saying "cheese" in front of a camera.

As their two features were both melancholy and funny, it is tempting to conclude that the tall, thin and dark Rebella contributed the former aspect while the shorter, blond and stocky Stoll supplied the humour. A few weeks ago, Rebella sent some pages of the new script to the producer. He also announced his intention to go, with Stoll, to the Locarno film festival in August. However, in the early hours of July 14, he was discovered by his girlfriend and Stoll in his apartment in downtown Montevideo, sitting in a chair, in front of his computer, with a gunshot to his head and a .32 gun beside him. He had apparently consumed half a bottle of whisky.

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