El Senor De Osanto -1974- Ok.ru -

While Argentina produced La Tregua and Brazil saw the rise of Cinema Novo , Peru was struggling to find its voice. El Señor de Osanto was Robles Godoy’s answer to that struggle. It was a film that refused to be a simple political allegory. Instead, it was a psychological thriller set against the backdrop of indigenismo —the movement to reclaim indigenous identity. It failed commercially. Critics were divided: Some called it a masterpiece of slow cinema; others called it pretentious and unwatchable.

El Señor de Osanto was Robles Godoy’s penultimate feature. He would make only one more film in the 1980s before retiring in frustration. He passed away in 2015, largely unrecognized outside of film festival circuits. el senor de osanto -1974- ok.ru