Jonah and the Pink Whale (1995)

Original title

Jonás y la ballena rosada

Directed by

Juan Carlos Valdivia

Genre

comedy film

Country

Bolivia

Runtime

1h 32m

Rated

18A

Rating

4.8 of 10 from 12 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A photographer named Jonas has a relationship with his sister-in-law. The story is set against the social and economic changes in Bolivia.

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What happens

Jonah and the Pink Whale (Spanish: Jonás y la ballena rosada) is a 1995 Mexican-Bolivian co-production film directed by Juan Carlos Valdivia. The film is based on the 1987 novel by José Wolfango Montes Vannuci The film focuses on the relationship of Jonas, a photographer and his romantic relationship with his sister-in-law. Jonah and the Pink Whale was the Bolivian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film competition in the 68th Academy Awards, but it did not receive an Oscar nomination. The movie is the first production of Juan Carlos Valdivia, a director from La Paz who for this production adapted the novel of the same name by José Wolfango Montes Vanucci published in 1987. The film has as its protagonist Jonás Larriva, a thirty-year-old reluctant to professional success and harassed by his elitist political family. , who will find himself involved in a carnal relationship with his sister-in-law, between hyperinflation and the rise of drug trafficking in eastern Bolivia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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