Como el gato y el ratón (2002)

Original title

Como el Gato y el Ratón

Directed by

Rodrigo Triana

Genre

comedy drama

Country

Colombia

Runtime

1h 33m

Rating

8.1 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two families in a poor Bogotá neighborhood wait for electricity to arrive. The film shows their daily lives and interactions during the anticipation.

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What happens

Como el gato y el ratón (English: Like the cat and the mouse) is a 2002 French-Colombian comedy-drama film. It was directed by Rodrigo Triana, produced by Colombian filmmaker Clara María Ochoa, and stars Jairo Camargo, Alina Lozano, Patricia Maldonado, Gilberto Ramirez, Paola Rey and Manuel Jose Chavez. The film deals with two families from a poor neighborhood in south Bogotá who await the arrival of electricity. The film won the Premio de Apoyo a la Producción, Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección de Cinematografía (Colombia) 1998, Premio de Apoyo a la Postproducción, Ministerio de Cultura, Dirección de Cinematografía (Colombia) 2000, Círculo Precolombino de Oro Mejor Película Colombiana en el 19º Festival Internacional de Cine de Bogotá (Colombia) 2002, and the Biarritz Film Cinema Festival of Latin America. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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