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The Day Silence Died

The Day Silence Died (El día que murió el Silencio)

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  • Bolivia
  • 1999
  • · 108m

Director Paolo Agazzi
Cast Darío Grandinetti, Gustavo Angarita, Elías Serrano, Norma Merlo, María Laura García
Genre Comedy, Drama, Romance

A handsome and mysterious stranger, played by Darío Grandinetti, walks into the town square of Villaserena one day and strategically places loudspeakers around the town, blaring a variety of musical tunes. Soon, he begins to sell airtime to the various locals, who broadcast their own personal love dedications and (more frequently) insults for all to hear. A subplot evolves between Abelardo (the stranger), Celeste (a young woman who is chained inside her father's house to stop her running away), and José (a young man).

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80

Chicago Reader by Ted Shen

Enchanting, multilayered fable.

75

New York Daily News by Jack Mathews

The story is fascinating for its simplicity and its inherent truths about the downside of progress.

75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

Comedy with a light-hearted flair. The cast is charming, and Garcia is especially easy on the eye.

70

Film.com by Henry Cabot Beck

A modest picture with quiet ambitions that is likely to disappear into that lush tropical rainforest where so many films of this sort, some much worse and others much better, have all gone in time. Catch it while you can.

60

TV Guide Magazine by Ken Fox

Delightful Bolivian comedy, which also works as a sly critique of mass media.

60

The New York Times by Dana Stevens

An easygoing exercise, impossible to dislike but not especially memorable, engaging but finally derivative:

50

Miami Herald by Marta Barber

What appears to be the thrust of the story -- the unraveling of a society -- loses out to a tame, romantic triangle subplot.

30

Village Voice by Michael Atkinson

Agazzi's movie rather provincially hints at sexiness, humor, and satire without actually manifesting them.