Marking a breakthrough for Venezuelan filmmaking, Rosana Matecki’s “Story of a Day” is an “inventive, impassioned and striking paean to the lives of the rural poor,” Robert Koehler reviews at the Guadalajara Film Festival. “Rather than a variation on a wretched-of-the-earth perspective, the film views both the daily rituals and special events in various Venezuelan farming communities as a kind of dance or poem, with dashes of celebration, mystery, surrealism and comedy.”  Read Review