After turning heads with the resourcefulness and high energy of their 2012 “7 Boxes,” Paraguayan duo Juan Carlos Maneglia and Tana Schembori expand their antic caper-film template in “The Gold Seekers,” to results that are not only bigger and more polished, but even more of a good-natured delight. “Gold Seekers” should easily exceed its predecessor’s international outreach, while dangling remake prospects and boosting visibility for the nation’s modest film industry. It’s just Paraguay’s second feature to be submitted for Oscar Foreign Language film, though it failed to make the shortlist — perhaps because it’s too accessible a slice of pure entertainment for that traditionally sober category.
An opening scroll briefly explains that the War of the Triple Alliance, which killed off as much of 80% of the nation’s population at the time, ended in 1870 with many victims no longer alive to claim the valuables they’d hidden to keep from looters. Thus commenced...
An opening scroll briefly explains that the War of the Triple Alliance, which killed off as much of 80% of the nation’s population at the time, ended in 1870 with many victims no longer alive to claim the valuables they’d hidden to keep from looters. Thus commenced...
- 1/18/2018
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety - Film News
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