About the Movie
Even the Rain follows two Spanish directors as they travel to Bolivia to film a movie about Christopher Columbus. While there, a fight erupts over the privatization of the local water supply and one of the main actors in the film becomes heavily involved with protests. A fictionalized story of the real Cochabamba Water War, Even the Rain brings up parallel moral dilemmas happening on and off the screen.
Even the Rain film trailer (click on image below)
Themes and Topics
Hunter, P. (2010). Cochabamba_Water War 10 year anniversary. Flickr. https://www.flickr.com/photos/43005015@N06/49798399938
Cochambamba Water War
Olivera, Oscar, and Tom Lewis. Cochabamba! : Water War in Bolivia. South End Press, 2004. (Library book HD4465.B5 O45 2004)
Sadiq, Sheraz. “Frontline/World . Bolivia - Leasing the Rain . Timeline: Cochabamba Water Revolt.” Frontline World , WGBH Educational Foundation, www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/bolivia/timeline.html.
Globalization
Blewett , Dan. “Sociology Research Guide .” College of DuPage Library, library.cod.edu/c.php?g=1091669&p=7961495#s-lg-box-wrapper-30108822.
Wenz, Peter S. "Globalization." Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy, edited by J. Baird Callicott and Robert Frodeman, vol. 1, Macmillan Reference USA, 2009, pp. 463-468. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX3234100144/GVRL?u=cod_lrc&sid=bookmark-GVRL&xid=f9eaca6c.
Reviews
Ebert, Roger. “Indians Keep Falling for Columbus.” Roger-Ebert.Com, Ebert Digital LLC , 24 Feb. 2011, www.rogerebert.com/reviews/even-the-rain-2011.
Holden, Stephen. “Discovering Columbus’s Exploitation.” The New York Times, The New York Times Company , 17 Feb. 2011, www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/movies/18even.html.
About Bolivia
“Country Business Guide: Bolivia .” AtoZ International Business, World Trade Press, https://library.cod.edu/atozinternationalbusiness (Click link and search for "Bolivia")
McFarren, Peter J. and Arnade, Charles W.. "Bolivia". Encyclopedia Britannica, 21 Aug. 2024, https://www.britannica.com/place/Bolivia.