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Friday, January 14, 2011

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - La Ultima Cena aka The Last Supper (1976)

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This scathing black comedy from Cuban satirist Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is a dish that's bitter to taste and hard to stomach. It's an intricate and uncompromising fable that alarmingly boasts an authentic historical model.In the 18th century, the wealthy owner of a sprawling Havana sugar plantation gives in to a misguided whim. As Holy Week approaches, he decides to host his own Last Supper, appointing himself as Christ and a dozen downtrodden slaves as the apostles. Held on Maundy Thursday, his re-enactment is a precarious proposition from the outset. At first, it offers Alea ample opportunity for comedy, as the pompous master cleans and flinchingly kisses the feet of the bemused slaves before taking to the table.During the lavish meal itself the master shamelessly dishes out self-righteous rhetoric while his slaves throw themselves upon their food. Facing their intermittent recriminations, he resorts to nonsensical logic to explain the social structure of the plantation.

The majority of Alea's picture takes place at the dinner table. As such, The Last Supper is predominantly a conversation piece. However, the impact of the meal reverberates on Good Friday when the slaves rebel, holding their demonic overseer hostage. The revolt incurs the wrath of their master, who unleashes the dogs and orders his 'apostles' beheaded. Alea's hitherto measured pace here swiftly escalates towards a chilling, violent denouement played out to a cacophony of crazed drumbeats and impassioned chants.The spirit of Spanish surrealist Luis Buñuel hangs in the air throughout this multifaceted allegory, as Alea sets up and swiftly shoots down a number of targets. Boasting distinctive performances across the board, The Last Supper offers a thought-provoking meditation on masterhood and servitude, freedom and bondage. The film's title sequence, in which Alea picks out various details of an impressive canvas, pre-empts the director's painterly framings and his palette of delicate colours. (Chris Wiegand)

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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Fernando Birri - Un Señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes aka A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (1988)

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Magical realism and comic confusion blend in a startling film about visions and expectations. Amid the debris of a Colombian cyclone lands A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS whose seemingly miraculous anatomy attracts the curious and devout from around the world. Silent and disheveled, this fantastical "creature" is housed in a chicken coop as his hosts and the onlookers wait for his heavenly message which turns out to be a very mixed blessing.

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"Spectacularly alive... The Movie, bawdily juxtaposing sacred and profane love, eloquently illustrated Garcia Marquez' magical art." -Los Angeles Times

"Gabriel Garcia Marquez' story A VERY OLD MAN WITH ENORMOUS WINGS springs to life in the colorful, gently sardonic hands of Argentine helmer Fernando Birri." -Variety

"Improbably splendid moments... it mixes fantasy and reality with aplomb." -City Paper

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - La muerte de un burócrata AKA Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)

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DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT is a fanciful satire that takes on the excesses of Kafkaesque bureaucracy at the same time that it pays loving homage to the excesses of early cinematic comedies.

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Gutiérrez Alea's first major film is a black comedy which tells the story of a young man's attempts to disinter and re-bury his uncle, a move that lands him in a nightmare of bureaucratic red tape. Throughout the film, Alea pays homage to a long tradition of film comedy from the silent classics to Billy Wilder and Luis Buñuel. Often misinterpreted, "Death of a Bureaucrat" is not a critique of socialism, but a critique of bureaucracy, whether it be capitalist or socialist.

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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Memorias del subdesarrollo AKA Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)

Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, decides to stay in Cuba even though his wife and friends flee to Miami. Sergio looks back over the changes in Cuba, from the Cuban Revolution to the missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna. Memories of Underdevelopment is a complex character study of alienation during the turmoil of social changes. The film is told in a highly subjective point of view through a fragmented narrative that resembles the way memories function.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Juan Carlos Tabío - Lista de espera AKA Waiting List (2000)

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Saturday's discovery was a little gem of a film, a bright and breezy romance from Cuba called The Waiting List. Directed by Juan Carlos Tabio, based on a story by Arturo Arango, The Waiting List takes place at a bus station in the middle of Cuba and is filled with characters waiting to go somewhere else. It is a true ensemble character-driven film pulled off with a solid script and firmly keeled direction.

Many of the actors were seen before in Tabio's Strawberries and Chocolate but the characters who congregate at the bus station are unique. In the center are the young lovers played by Vladimir Cruz (an Antonio Bandaras look-alike, but more vulnerable) and Thaimi Alvarino, and they are surrounded by the blind man who isn't, the mother who hedges her bets on everything down to naming her son Vladimir Jesus, the gruff station manager and the ticket seller who sees nothing ironic in 16 people getting off and only one seat now being available, or the comment that follows every announcement of each delay: "Thank you for choosing us for your transportation needs." Needless to say there is no transportation, at least not at this bus station, and as it changes from a run-down stop over to a Rousseau-inspired feast for the eyes through imagination and team work, the best and worst is brought out in each of the characters.

Metaphors for the possibilities and the failures of socialism quaff throughout with good humor and a delicate touch. Even the title (Lista de Espera /The Waiting List) entices with the contradictions ahead in Spanish, Espera means to wait as well as to hope. www.filmscouts.com (Cannes 2000)

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Santiago Alvarez - Now (1965)

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Cuba’s Santiago Alvarez, Cinematographer and Revolutionary:
One of the greatest cultural achievements of the 1959 Cuban revolution has been its remarkable cinema. Prior to the revolution, Cuba possessed no national film industry. The first cultural decree of the revolutionary government was the founding of the Cuban Film Institute, known as ICAIC. Within a single decade, this bold initiative was producing impressive results.

Directors such as Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Umberto Solas were producing dynamic works of fiction, to considerable international acclaim. A battery of younger directors was likewise preparing to make its mark. The key figure of the first phase of the Cuban cinema, Santiago Alvarez(...)

Working under extremely tight time and material constraints, Alvarez became a master of improvisation. He combined the use of limited found materials—archival footage and photographs—with a dynamic graphic sensibility, bold and unexpected music-image pairings, and a highly contemporary use of rapidly paced editing. Fusing the avant-garde with popular culture, he sought to synthesize a film style that was as revolutionary as the changes then sweeping his society.

The resulting films were always political and often didactic. They could be playful or deadly serious. They were borne of rage, bitter irony and an almost limitless solidarity. They could be raucous or silent, brief or monumental, laconic or verbose. They were prone to tangents, but could be as eloquent as poetry. They never sought perfection. They were never made with posterity in mind. They were made for the here and the now. They showed the world to be forever changing and changeable.

Santiago Alvarez was the pioneer of Cuba’s revolutionary cinema: the first to produce works of inarguable importance, and the first to exhibit them widely abroad. The early films of Santiago Alvarez alerted the world to something vital gestating in the corridors of Cuba’s ICAIC film institute.

But they alerted the world to something else as well—something far more important. They signaled the dynamic breadth of the revolution itself and the kind of beauty it is capable of creating. As Alvarez himself always insisted, “The revolution made me a filmmaker.” [Travis Wilkerson on socialismandliberation.org]

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Friday, January 14, 2011

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - La Ultima Cena aka The Last Supper (1976)

Wednesday, June 30, 2010

Fernando Birri - Un Señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes aka A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings (1988)

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - La muerte de un burócrata AKA Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea - Memorias del subdesarrollo AKA Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Juan Carlos Tabío - Lista de espera AKA Waiting List (2000)

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Santiago Alvarez - Now (1965)

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