Chocó
Item
Title / Título (Original)
Chocó
Director
Release Date / Fecha de estreno
2012
Film Guide / Guía de película
Language / Idioma
Spanish / español
Country / País
Production Company / Compañía de Producción
Proimágenes (Colombia)
Antorcha Films (Colombia)
Description / Descripción
Chocó es una mujer negra de 27 años, que lleva a cuestas una familia de dos hijos menores y a Everlides, su esposo músico que sólo sabe tocar marimba, beber viche y jugar dominó. Chocó es una mujer fuerte y luchadora. En la mañana ella trabaja buscando oro en el río San Juan y en las tardes lava ropa de otras familias para alimentar y educar a sus hijos. Es el cumpleaños de la pequeña Candelaria, por primera vez Chocó le promete una torta, sin embargo, las cosas se complican al tratar de cumplir esta promesa, desencadenando consecuencias inesperadas para Chocó y toda su familia. (Film's Official Website)
Chocó is an Afro-American country woman, who is about 24-27 years old, displaced from her land by violence. She carries a family of two children under 10 and her musician husband Everlides, who only knows how to play the marimba, drink Viche and play domino. Forced to find her own way of living, Chocó works searching for gold in the Atrato River during the morning and washing clothes for other families in the afternoon so she can pay for the education of her children. The money she saves is spent by Everlides in betting on domino and drinking alcohol. After a lot of physical abuse and sexual humiliation from her husband, Chocó decides to have sex with “El Paisa”, owner of the local shop, because this is the only way she finds to buy the cake for her little daughter, Candelaria, who will turn five years old. This will make Chocó furious and will change the history of this family. (Film's Official Website)
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Cinematic Period / Periodo cinematográfico
Collection
Citation
“Chocó,” Cinegogía, accessed April 27, 2024, https://cinegogia.omeka.net/items/show/749.