Galindo made it: "Willaq Pirqa" continues to break it in movie theaters
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- 15 Feb 2023
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The film by Peruvian director César Galindo, Willaq Pirqa, the cinema of my town has been experiencing strange days, if we compare its situation with other Peruvian films released in recent months, which barely lasted two weeks on the billboard. Lucky debut and farewell that generated whimsical comments, such as the one that indicates that "if they leave the theaters, it is because the public does not like it." The truth is that Peruvian films —author or for purely commercial purposes— could not be sure if their “failure” was due to the fact that they were not liked or that they were not sufficiently promoted.
Willaq Pirqa has had a peculiar transit. Although it premiered on Thursday, December 8, 2022, the film had already been generating positive comments —the awards it received in the latest edition of the Lima Film Festival are not free—; For those who write, this enthusiasm had not been perceived before with any Peruvian film and even more so being one spoken in Quechua.
The mere fact that Galindo's film is in its eighth week in commercial theaters, with the endorsement of 75,000 viewers, is not only to applaud, but also to recognize the goldsmithing of the work, poetic in images and sensations (tenderness), the intelligence of its script (Galindo, Augusto Cabada and Gastón Vizcarra) and its internal dynamics that has much of the European dialogical tradition (the echoes of Ingmar Bergman are evident and very well used). Because its strength is not in the general trunk —the discovery of cinema on behalf of the child Sistu (Víctor Acurio)—, but in the interrelation of the characters.
Cesar Galindo. (PHOTO: VÍCTOR CH. VARGAS).
This last point is key. Galindo knew how to link the consigned European dialogical tradition —we must not forget: the director has lived many years in Europe— with the vision of the Andean world. In this fusion lies the epiphany of this film: the wonder that does not fall into the commonplace. Read More…
