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Guantanamera
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From the director of Strawberry and Chocolate
"A beautifully made and charming romantic satire." -- Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance Film Festival
"Tom‡s GutiŽrrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tab’o's latest work follows the international success of their Strawberry and Chocolate and is a beautifully made and charming romantic satire. Chronicling the travails of present-day Cuban life, it is at once both entertaining and full of knife-edged wit as it tells the story of a bureaucrat, Adolfo, and his wife, Georgina. Adolfo proposes to deal with the chronic lack of gasoline and the problems that shortages cause for undertakers... by suggesting that all gasoline coupons be pooled and all the various townships work together in transporting the dead to their final resting place. This seems to be a simple solution, but it is one that eventually reveals all the difficulties and realities of bureaucracy and socialism in a nation pushed to the limit. [When his aunt dies], Adolfo can test his new plan by transporting her body back to Havana. Georgina accompanies her husband and Candido, [the aunt's lover], and so begins a modest journey which transforms their lives... Guantanamera is truly a film whose themes and memories evoke both a laugh and a tear." -- Geoffrey Gilmore, Sundance Film Festival.
(Cuba, 1995, subtitles, 101 min.)
Classification: TBA.
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