‘Powerful Chief’ Review: Quiet Peruvian Drama Spotlights the City of Puno
Manuel Betancourt Henry Vallejo’s unassuming, near-vérité drama “Powerful Chief” takes its title from the originary figure who founded the Incan Empire. Yet that historical reference, no doubt lost on those not well-versed in Andean indigenous history, serves less as necessary context for the film than as an added bit of perspective.