Capturing the hard life of the people of a mountainous Peruvian mining community (particularly its long-suffering women folk), Salomé Lamas's Eldorado XXI is an engrossing observational documentary, comprised of long, slow, strikingly composed shots of hard toil amidst spectacular snowy landscapes.
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"Eldorado XXI is a haunting and mysterious ethnographic reality cut-up. Set in the highest settlement in the world, La Rinconada y Cerro Lunar (5500m), in the Peruvian Andes; an illusion leads men to self destruction, moved by the same interests, dealt with the same tools and means in contemporaneity as it has been dealt in the ancient times." salomelamas.info
