If you loved 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines, try Even the Rain

A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.

What they share

Theyboth carry the foreign gem mood tag, and they sit in Drama / History territory. If that's the register that drew you to 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.

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What Even the Rain is

The Water Wars meet New Hollywood debt-saddled filmmaking in a shoot where the director’s colonial fiction clashes with Cochabamba’s real-life uprising over privatized taps. A crew’s trip turns into a moral ledger when extras pocket their pesos to fight tanks instead of cameras. Toni Erdmann’s producer carries the cost.

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