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Manzo's film version of "The Arcangel's feather" is perhaps the best Venezuelan film of the last two decades. The direction is very clean, the photography is beautiful although too glossy at points. The acting is remarkable, especially the performance of Roque Valero, a talent Latin American directors should pay more attention to. Elaiza Gil and Ivan Tamayo gave great performances also.

The Music is really good, although sometimes a little too obvious. the same goes for the sound design. Though it is perhaps the best sound ever in a Venezuelan film.

The movie is well structure, the message gets across, and the timing for this movie could not have been better. It's a shame that there was little advertizement for it and although it had good reviwes it did poorly in the box office.

Oro Diablo or Garimpeiros as it is known in Venezuela is a movie that fails to deliver a consistent story. aside from violent events, dirty talk, nudity and a very shallow love story, the movie does have anything else working for ti. It is the third movie from Producing Directing team Novoa-Schneider, and we can see a pattern of mediocre, poorly done, kitchy, films with the only common elements of being about "the true Venezuelan reality". By saying this they try to cover under the sheld of "If you dont like our films it is because you don't want to accept the reality of the country." That of course it not true. Their films lack any deep story telling elements such as Metaphores and fall back of the Venezuelan Soap Opera culture that has made its citizens acostume to see bad acting, bad directing and thousends of Cliches in the Story . It is a shame that they have been the only filmmaking team to recive national fundings for many years.. i look forward to a better time in the Venezuelan Film History