Kiro Russo captures a tormented, changing La Paz in his latest film, El Gran Movimiento, with Antonioni-esque style and mesmerising results.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 13, 2024

With The Great Movement, Kiro Russo demonstrates his brilliant ability to weave documentary realism with fascinating fiction, creating a unique experience... [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Nov 20, 2023

When the movie seems to come to a lull, it suddenly acquires a fantastic dimension in its journey and realism. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 2, 2023

In its mix of social realism and dream-like strangeness, this Bolivian film is pretty much Ken Loach meets David Lynch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 24, 2022

El Gran Movimiento is a transfixing viewing experience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 18, 2022

Spellbinding! A poetic, mesmerizing and engrossing journey.

| Aug 12, 2022

Russo is more interested in found surreality than in narrative. But as an incantatory exercise, “El Gran Movimiento” is pleasingly disorienting.

| Aug 11, 2022

Writer-director Kiro Rosso’s sociological, pseudo-documentary film suggests a mosaic resolving out of innumerable shards.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2022

Coupled with the immersive score and sound design, El Gran Movimiento feels as much like a symphony as a film, which may explain the title.

| Aug 9, 2022

Enigmatic and dense, often chaotic, the film uses sound and imagery to represent the cacophony of an impersonal city... [Full review in Spanish]

| Jul 25, 2022

El Gran Movimiento is a topical film with strong visuals as well as boundary pushing cinematic exercise and undoubtedly one of the best films of the year.

| Jun 27, 2022

Puzzling, beautiful, and meticulous, it packs too much into its short run time to land, but remains mesmerising.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 1, 2022

Russo delivers a heady mix that requires a willingness from the viewer to leave logic behind and go along for the ride.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 21, 2022

While the result won’t be to all tastes, you can’t fault its ambition. Russo’s picture is harsh and compelling, weightless and strange; the filmic equivalent of a bottle of smoke.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 17, 2022

Packed to the gills with formal and thematic playfulness. A dark film, but a fun one too.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 14, 2022

What a strange and intriguing film this is.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 12, 2022

An often fragmentary and unbalanced experience, but one which enthrals and enchants.

| Feb 4, 2022

There's an undeniable assurance in the filmmaking here and a clear point of view.

| Nov 22, 2021

This film will undoubtably challenge viewers, but in the end it will all have been worth it. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2021

The Great Movement turns excess into chaos and failure during staging into a triumph of cinema. [Full review in Spanish]

| Sep 21, 2021