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Cuba => Cuba => Topic started by: lunagirl on July 10, 2006, 01:01:00 PM

Title: A good movie about Cuba
Post by: lunagirl on July 10, 2006, 01:01:00 PM

Just watched a movie called Cuba Libre starring Harvey Keitel. I've copied a description here and can highly recommend it.
 
 "Actor Harvey Keitel teamed with a roster of Cuban-American talent - including exiled actors Reinaldo Miravalles and Pedro Renteria - to evoke this misty coming-of-age reverie set in 1958, in the last year of the Battista regime. In the town of Holguin, a boy at the local cinema watches the Doris Day melodrama "Julia" when the screen goes black in mid-cliffhanger. Castro's rebels have destroyed the power plant. It stays dark for months as Hollywood gloss and the magic of childhood gives way to the sweat, blood and tears of a land in turmoil. Father leaves the island, a revolutionary squares off against police and the boy's shady grandpapa Che (Keitel) tries to fix deals and protect the family like always. Throughout, the boy's secret companion is a mysterious, sleek blonde named Julia, who looks curiously like Doris Day. Like "Cinema Paradiso"  and "Movie Days", CUBA LIBRE speaks the universal language of celluloid, the stuff that dreams are made of, in a world that sometimes seems nightmarish."
 
 Apparently the original plan was to film in Cuba but it fell through and was shot in DR.  But it's still very beautiful - and sad.

Title: Re: A good movie about Cuba
Post by: Charmainiac on July 10, 2006, 05:15:00 PM

The book is even better! I read it two trips-ago while in Havana!
 'Glad to see someone bring up the subject of Cuba-related films again.   :7:

Title: Re: A good movie about Cuba
Post by: Bulldog on July 10, 2006, 06:02:00 PM

There is another movie I saw just yesterday, well more of a Documentary I guess.
 
 Two Cubas, The
 2005 Documentary 45 min
 
 Starring: Jose Rodriguez, Jose Luis
 
 
 A portrait of two gay men living in Havana's gay culture, and their dreams of life elsewhere.
 
 
 It's playing on TMN
 
 Not that there is anything wrong with being GAY, but it was interesting to such a following in Cuba...not sure if following is the right terminology here   :)  
 
 Bulldog  :s:

Title: Re: A good movie about Cuba
Post by: lunagirl on July 11, 2006, 05:53:00 AM

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Originally posted by Charmainiac:
  The book is even better! I read it two trips-ago while in Havana!
 'Glad to see someone bring up the subject of Cuba-related films again.    :7:  

I'll have to look out for it - I usually enjoy books better than movies. Thanks Charmaine

Title: Re: A good movie about Cuba
Post by: Charmainiac on July 11, 2006, 09:31:00 AM

I hope you find it Lunagirl!
 And Bulldog, sorry I missed that one! I know about this movie, but haven't yet seen it. Thanks for posting it though!