Abstract

Films

This article discusses several motion pictures. In the film "Guantanamera," directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, the answer to the second question isn't hard to guess. Cuba's all-time most popular song continually bubbles up through the soundtrack, played with a rhythmic ease that makes musicians of all other nations gasp with envy. Since the film ends with lovers united, grinning joyously at each other in the pouring rain, we may assume it's good to put away whatever's in the box. The film "Madagascar," by Fernando Pérez, which caused a sensation when it was shown in the Havana Film Festival in 1994. Dark, elliptical and breathtakingly daring, it might be described as forty-nine minutes worth of dislocations. A single mother, once proud to have been part of the revolution but now just doing her job, trudges through Havana, continually packing up and moving to a different apartment.