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Movie Reviews of Strawberry & Chocolate
Movie Review: Powerful statement !
Summary: 5 Stars
In this film you will face two opposite sides between a gay lover of the arts and a alienated and confused fanatic of the ancient regime. This ideological train crash will be adjusting when the time goes and slowly every one of these men will respect and admire each one another .
Above all the prejuices you may have about this disturbing tour de force between two human beings with different visions about the life , this movie shows you a new reality . Becasue the aparience is many times the only lense that many people employs to judge the world . And you know the world is a complex web of relations .
If you only read what you like you will never be an illustrated man, said once Seneca . And that statement may be well translated to thah brave , poignant , reflexive, artistic and captivating film.
Try to find as soon you can Memories of the underdevelopment , the masterpiece of Tomas Gutierrez Alea , the best cuban director of the XX century.
To love and learn about the inmense possibilities of art is live twice .
Movie Review: A Different Kind of Buddy Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
In this unique type of buddy movie we see how easily friendship and tolerance flourish amid the paranoia of the day.
David is a college student with a sheltered education. Diego is a comically charming gay intellectual who tries to pick him up over a dish of ice cream.
Underscored with political criticism and laced with clever dialog this movie presents modern day Cuba as a place where its easy to be ostriacized. Smart, funny and superblly acted, this film makes you think and makes you laugh.
Movie Review: Excelente historia de amor
Summary: 5 Stars
Esta es una historia del amor más allá de las preferencias sexuales. Habla de la tolerancia y de la posibilidad de comunicarnos con cualquier otro ser humano, aunque no piense como nosotros. La recomiendo totalmente.Movie Review: Fascinating Cultural Experience
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie was fascinating from beginning to end. I am not familiar with the Latin culture depicted in this movie and that made it all the more interesting to me.Movie Review: Exploring love, ideas, and friendship in Havana
Summary: 4 Stars
I won't bother with plot points and such since lots of other reviewers have already done so, but I will say that this film is definitely worthy of the accolades and positive reviews it has received. I was particularly struck by the performance of Jorge Perugorría as the gay artist Diego. Perugorria's performance draws you in whether he is being sly and bitchy or indignant and passionate. His unrequited love for David (Vladimir Cruz) is both sweetly naïve as well as crushingly sad. I won't give away the final scene, but I will say that without Perugorria's stellar performance throughout the film it would have been a less powerful moment.
But the film is more than just a gay man's infatuation with a young Marxist; it is also about the struggle of contradictory ideas and opinions in a world where the view is rigidly controlled. David is put off by Diego's flamboyance and flirtation, but he is quite fascinated by Diego's ideas and courage.
The action takes place mostly in Diego's apartment, but the scenes of Havana are stark and somewhat depressing, showing buildings and sidewalks crumbling from neglect. At one point Diego takes David to the roof of his building and laments the collapse of the once beautiful Havana.
The film was nominated for an Oscar and won numerous awards, including ones from the Berlin and Sundance film festivals, but its multiple awards at the Havana Film Festival may surprise some, considering the implicit criticism of the Cuban system contained in the film. Happily, Perugorria's extraordinary performance was recognized at the festival when he won for best actor.
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