The film gained prominence as a representation of The Kingdom of Spain in the 2011 Oscars competition for Best Foreign Language Film. It is a very sharp work, and in a short space it brings up many of the shortcomings of the South American government, including their indifference to the lives of ordinary people. The film is based on the real events of Cochabamba protests against rising water prices in 2000 to reveal that this injustice has not changed for hundreds of years. The director of the film is María Icíar Bollaín Pérez-Mínguez , born in Madrid in 1967. She is an excellent actress, director and screenwriter. Bola Yin has been active on the big screen since the age of 14, and at the age of 28, he filmed his first directorial work "Hey, Are You Lonely?" ". She and the screenwriter of the film, William Paul Modibo Rafferty, are like-minded and intimate partners. William Paul Modibo has been working on this story for eight years. The first version of the script he wrote was a four-hour TV series about Bartolomé de las Casas , but he felt it was too far from the audience, so he added a new the level of drinking water crisis in Cochabamba in 2000. He saw a striking similarity between the two events: the struggle of the poor against the army. William Paul Modibo worked on the story for three years with director Alejandro González Iñárritu ( Babel Tower ), but then becauseTo shoot other subjects and parted ways. Later, Bo Layin, who has been supporting her boyfriend by the side, became the best choice for William Paul Modibo to direct the film. Although this is a subject that Bo Laine has never been exposed to, she still accepts the challenge.
When she was an actress, Bola Yin often asked herself: "What would happen if I came to film this story?" Being able to be a director by herself gave her more autonomy. Something that many male directors are reluctant to challenge. For example, in "Even the Rain", a large number of local residents with no acting experience and the famous Mexican actor Gael García Bernal were used at the same time . In this regard, she gives full play to the delicateness of women, carefully studying the characteristics of each actor, knowing who performs best in the first performance and who needs to be run in many times. For extras , she will try to communicate with them, become friends, and pay great attention to their feelings, so as to create a relaxed and comfortable shooting atmosphere.
Novelist Christine Estima said: "There are not a few movies about reality, and many of them always feel too hollow, like an unpleasant scream, but '' Even the Rain avoids this problem, it's more sincere. Director Sebastiane and his producer DC traveled to the Plurinational State of Bolivia to make a film about Christopher Columbus Americas' expedition and treasure hunt , but their crew was disrupted. Into the political crisis of local people protesting against the privatization of the water system. The film was shortlisted for the 2010 Toronto Film Festival Contemporary World Film Section, and the 2010 The Kingdom of Spain Province of Valladolid Film Festival Opening Film.
