Our Brand is Crisis
In this candid, bullet-paced documentary, American political consultants advise the incumbent Bolivian president on his re-election campaign. Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada, aka Goni, is seen by his American strategists as a progressive idealist trying to liberalize business practices and strengthen democracy. However to many Bolivians, he is a Clintonesque neo-liberal allied too closely with the U.S. With little chance of re-election, Goni hires Stan Greenberg and James Carville to influence things. How they do this and how the candidate and the Bolivian electorate respond play out like a fictional adventure story. Rachel Boynton was given remarkable access to this high-stakes client/consultant relationship and, in her incisive debut feature, makes compelling use of it. USA, 2005. 85 min.
M-24b Thu March 24 at 8:45pm
W-26a Sat March 26 at 3:45pm
A Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
W Walter Reade Theater, Lincoln Center
M The Museum of Modern Art