| | |  | PERU | Home » » Paloma De Papel | | | | | | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Antonio Callirgos, Eduardo Cesti, Aristóteles Picho, Liliana Trujillo, Sergio Galliani | | Director:
| Fabrizio Aguilar | | Format:
| Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC | | Language:
| Spanish | | Subtitle:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Venevision | | Run Time:
| 90 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| March 01, 2005 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 5 reviews |
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24 of 24 found the following review helpful:
 Excellent, very worth seeingMay 02, 2005
By Cecilia Mendez
This is an excellent film. It is probably the first Peruvian film to portray Andean peasants as the main protagonists. Paloma de Papel, that focuses on a peasant village's association with and fight against Peru's notorious terrorist organization and Partido Comunista del Peru-SL, best known as The Shining Path, is a perfect complement to Francisco Lombardi's classic La Boca del Lobo (The Lion's Den, 1988). Whereas in Lombardi's film the militaries were both the main protagonists and the main perpetrators of the abuses against the peasants, in Paloma de Papel peasants take the lead while the Shining Path is the main executioner. However, far from falling into clichéd interpretations that would pit "bad terrorists" against "good peasants", director Fabrizio Aguilar manages to show the humanity and vulnerability of both. He shows moreover how peasants, far from merely being caught in the cross fire, could deliberately take sides. Paloma de Papel constitutes an intelligent and sensitive portrayal of a complex topic: peasants' ultimate fight against the Shining Path insurgency that shook Peru between 1980 and 1999 and which ultimately claimed 70,000 lives, most of them poor and illiterate Andean peasants. This film is likely to stir debates and may be misunderstood by those who have romanticized Latin American Marxist guerrillas or still think that armed solutions to social problems are morally and politically justified. A very human film. Excellent performances by both adults and children. Shot in a village in the Andean department of Ancash. Amazing landscapes.
13 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Amazing film, a glimpse of life 1st world folks don't get to see....Dec 26, 2005
By debbie
palomar de papel is an amazingly, touching story about a young boy, his deep relationship w/ his nurturing mama, and the realities of life in the U.S. exploited countries of Latin America.
This movie is endearing because it shows the humanities of all sides. I LOVE that it shows glimpses of the humble, yet loving and beautiful life of so-called "common" peasants of the Andean Peru. The sweet relationships that this little boy, Juan, develops w/ the members of his town, and the mischievious and funny ways he and his little friends find to entertain themselves in their mountainside, non-industrialized lives.
The abduction of Juan by the Shining Path is gripping, and to be honest--AWFUL to watch. I hated the hardships they this little boy endured, but i appreciate the fact that it's real and this film shows the realness from all sides.
The film depicts the communists as, on one hand seeking reasonable demands--end to poverty and exploitation, freedom and self determinatino. It also reflects the hard realities that most people reading this review may never have to face--like, it's easy to say "oh, i'd never do this or that", but, when you've watched your entire homes burned down, mothers father killed, etc., people's perspective about what their options often change.
Therefore, the shinig path characters are depicted as making some pretty inhumane mistakes, but I think by the end you may feel that possibly, they are just struggling to find answers to the same questions millions are also facing, though clearly -_how_ they are going about (i.e. armed, guerrilla warfare gonig up against women and children, the very people they supposedly were fighting for) it did not prove beneficial to either side.
It's tough, and hard to watch, but excellent film, excellent acting and production, and very sweet message given at the final scene. This would also be excellent to view from an anthropological and/or sociological perspective.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
EXCELLEnt movie worth seeingJul 14, 2006
By E. B. Yangali
PAloma de papel is a very hearttouching story about the lives of poor andean peruvian ppl. It is a story form a child's point of view about terrorism and its many consequences. At the end of the movie i cried the hardest i have ever cried in my life no joke. Amovie that as intense as it is, is a family movie and teahces kids the danger of terrorism adn how many ppl get into it for neccesity.
Recurring theme yet brilliantApr 14, 2012
By Rajesh Rathi
"Rajesh Rathi"
The movie is set against a backdrop of Peruvian civil war between government army and leftist guilleras in the 80s.
The central character is Juan a 10-year old boy living in a village of the Peruvian highlands. The movie does a great job of showing Juan's mostly happy childhood. Here the movie realistically depicts the hardships faced by the poor peasants of Peruvian highlands.
Juan is then abducted and forced into leftist army. Here we can empathize with his pain of separation. A series of events then leads to bloodshed in the village. The movie brings home the message- use of children in army is sad and unfortunate. War is futile.
Good acting by the child actor who potrayed Juan. All along scenery of the Peruvian Andes and altiplano is stunning.
I've watched movies with similar theme - war through the eyes of a child (Innocent voices and Kite Runner). This time too I loved it.
1 of 27 found the following review helpful:
 Piece of crap!Mar 23, 2005
By Nicholas Demos
Paloma de papel (Paper dove) is really a piece of crap. It explores the over explored world of terrorist from a childs point of view... Director Fabrizio Aguilar, is nothing more than a spoiled child trying to show how much he knows about the live of the poor people in peru, When in fact he doesn't know anything about it. Having grew up in private (Expensive) schools and lived in Miraflores (A residential city in Peru) He should be directing commercials for those expensive products or even better, still acting in the lame soap operas in which que used to act.
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