Whisky

Jacobo Köller owns a modest sock factory in Montevideo, Uruguay, where he leads a grey, routine existence. His relationship with Marta Acuña, his trusted employee, is strictly professional and marked by silence. When Jacobo learns that his estranged brother Herman, who has lived abroad for years, is coming to visit, he asks Marta to pose as his wife for a few days, hoping to show his brother that his life amounts to something. The arrangement forces the two reserved, solitary people into an uncomfortable intimacy.

Whisky was released in 2004 and runs 99 minutes. It is a German, Argentine, Spanish and Uruguayan co-production from Pandora Film, Wanda Visión, Rizoma Films and Ctrl Z Films. Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll directed, following their 2001 debut 25 Watts; they also wrote the screenplay with Gonzalo Delgado. Andrés Pazos plays Jacobo, Mirella Pascual plays Marta, and Jorge Bolani plays Herman, with Daniel Hendler, Ana Katz and Adrián Biniez in supporting roles.

The film received a critics' rating of 8 out of 10 from 14 reviews, higher than its audience scores of 7.1 on IMDb from around 7,700 votes and 6.9 on TMDB from 99 votes. The modest vote counts alongside the strong critical response indicate a film seen mainly at festivals and by art-house audiences rather than a wide commercial release.