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Wikipedia article




'La planta insolente' is a 2017 film directed by Venezuelan director Romn Chalbaud. The film depicts the tenure of Venezuelan President Cipriano Castro. The movie was a box-office flop and received generally negative reviews from critics.

Plot



The film depicts the tenure of Venezuelan President Cipriano Castro, and the title is based on his quote: "The insolent plant of the foreigner has desecrated the sacred soil of the fatherland", his response to the Venezuelan crisis of 19021903, when European nations blockaded Venezuelan shores after Castro refused to pay foreign debts and damages.

Production



The idea for the movie stated in 2009 when, during the premiere of 'Zamora: Tierra y hombres libres, President Hugo Chvez' suggested to make a film about Cipriano Castro to Chalbaud and Luis Britto Garca, both of which had worked in the film as director and screenwriter, respectively.

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Release



The movie was a box-office flop, failing to recoup the funds invested. The theaters where it was screened were empty and it was quickly withdrawn.

Reception



Venezuelan film critic Sergio Monsalve said that the movie, along with Chalbaud's late work 'El Caracazo', 'Das de poder' and 'Zamora: Tierra y hombres libres', tarnished Chalbaud's career and accomplishments as a filmmaker, saying that they were produced to please the Bolivarian Revolution and the ruling party, and panned the film.

Writing for 'Revista Florencia', Crissia Contreras criticized several aspects of the film, particularly its script and visual effects. Contreras writes that Cipriano Castro's and Juan Vicente Gmez' dialogues lacked depth and that Britto fails to depicts them faithfully, something particularly troublesome being two of the most important characters in Venezuelan history: Castro, leader of the , and his compadre Gmez, who would rule Venezuela for 27 years and described by writer Francisco Herrera Luque as the founder of the modern Venezuelan state. Crissia also stated that the movie's special effects were bad, suggesting that the country's film production was far from acceptable standards, and that extras, and even main actors, failed to depict fundamental aspects of the Liberal Restorative army, such as the Andean accents.

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