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La última cena
The film showed a pious sugar plantation owner in Cuba who holds a large banquet and attempts to teach his slaves about religion and the necessity of suffering for eternal happiness. While the slaves believe that they are being shown kindness, they are merely being placated, and the landowner does not give them the following day off of work as he promised to do, leading to a slave revolt. This film also makes anti-religious commentary through the actions of the count and the hypocritical ideologies that he preaches. Source: Sundt, Catherine. “Religion and Power: The Appropriation of Da Vinci’s the Last Supper in Viridiana and L’Ultima Cena.” Romance Notes, vol. 49, no. 1, Jan. 2009, p. 72. -
Guantanamera
Un atípico cortejo fúnebre y un camión cubren el mismo recorrido, aunque con muy diferentes cometidos, el cortejo, compuesto por un funcionario, su esposa Gina y un anciano, debe cumplir un ahorrativo plan estatal de traslado de difuntos. El camión, conducido por Mariano realiza su recorrido habitual. Lo que comenzó siendo un cruce fortuito, termina convirtiéndose en un encuentro continuo. Mariano y Gina coinciden y se reconocen: Gina fue profesora en la universidad donde Mariano estudió y un amor frustrado para éste. La caravana fúnebre avanza. Sus tropiezos con el camión y un sinfin de divertidas peripecias van uniendo poco a poco a Gina y Mariano hasta conseguir que ambos tomen una decisión. -
Cartas del Parque
La historia tiene lugar en la ciudad de Matanzas, cien kilómetros al oeste de La Habana, en 1913. Dos jóvenes enamorados, cada uno por su lado y sin que el otro lo sepa, solicitan los servicios de un escribano para comunicarse a través de las cartas que este redacta. Poco a poco, los sentimientos del escribano van a imponerse por encima de su voluntad y revelarán una verdad eterna: al amor no se le puede hacer trampas; es el amor quien domina en este juego. (Ecured.cu) -
Fresa y chocolate
Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinal ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is a coming-of-age story, told through the development of a great friendship which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance. (IMDB) -
Fresa y chocolate
Diego, a cultivated, homosexual and skeptical young man, falls in love with a young heterosexual communist full of prejudices and doctrinal ideas. First come rejection and suspicion, but also fascination. Fresa y chocolate is a coming-of-age story, told through the development of a great friendship which overcomes incomprehension and intolerance. (IMDB) -
Memorias del subdesarrollo
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 Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna. (IMDB) -
Memorias del subdesarrollo
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 Castro revolution to the Cuban missile crisis, the effect of living in an underdeveloped country, and his relations with his girlfriends Elena and Hanna. (IMDB)