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Adieu sauvage

2023 · 92 min

A quiet, sorrowful documentary that asks you to sit with grief and cultural misunderstanding, offering no easy answers.

Directed by
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Laureano Gallego Lopez, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento, Angelina Gallego
Tagline
Is it possible that a whole people, the Cácuas Indians, do not feel anything?
Overview
Since the year 2000, there have been several waves of suicides among the indigenous population of the Colombian Amazon. I discovered that the men commit suicide because of love sorrow. Their wives leave them for white men. The latter think that the Indian feels nothing because they do not express themselves in the same way and, in their language, there are no words to describe feelings. Is it possible that a whole people, the Cácuas Indians, do not feel anything?

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Directed by
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Laureano Gallego Lopez, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento, Angelina Gallego
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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 3 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 2 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • grief
  • identity
  • isolation
  • colonialism
  • love
Places
  • wilderness
  • small town
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour1
Realism10
Romance2
Tension3
Darkness7
Complexity6
Emotional weight8

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
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Written by
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Starring
Laureano Gallego Lopez, Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento, Angelina Gallego, Wesly Gallego Lopez, Eli Gallego Lopez
Cinematography
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Runtime
92 min
Country
Belgium, France
Languages
French, Spanish

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