Comments on: Viva Cuba http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2007/06/11/viva-cuba/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=viva-cuba Covering film in Toronto Wed, 01 Feb 2012 14:31:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Viva Cuba http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2007/06/11/viva-cuba/comment-page-1/#comment-4718 Viva Cuba Fri, 26 Oct 2007 03:44:11 +0000 http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2007/06/11/viva-cuba/#comment-4718 [...] By the way, Viva Cuba is actually a very charming recent film from filmmaker Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti. I reviewed it over on Toronto Screen Shots. [...] […] By the way, Viva Cuba is actually a very charming recent film from filmmaker Juan Carlos Cremata Malberti. I reviewed it over on Toronto Screen Shots. […]

]]> By: James McNally http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2007/06/11/viva-cuba/comment-page-1/#comment-811 James McNally Tue, 12 Jun 2007 15:18:22 +0000 http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2007/06/11/viva-cuba/#comment-811 Walter, thanks for your insightful comment. There is definitely an element of "unreality" to the film, and even the use of some animation (in the "shooting stars" sequence) alerts us that this is not a strictly true story, but more of a fable or fairytale. Walter, thanks for your insightful comment. There is definitely an element of “unreality” to the film, and even the use of some animation (in the “shooting stars” sequence) alerts us that this is not a strictly true story, but more of a fable or fairytale.

]]> By: Walter Lippmann http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2007/06/11/viva-cuba/comment-page-1/#comment-807 Walter Lippmann Tue, 12 Jun 2007 13:10:40 +0000 http://www.torontoscreenshots.com/2007/06/11/viva-cuba/#comment-807 I saw this movie in a Cuban theater last year. At first, I did not understand it as it seemed completely unlike anything which could actually happen in Cuba. It is inconceivable to me that a couple of children could run away from home in Cuba, get completely across the country, hitching rides and so forth, without being found out. In the movie, one of the characters is one of the island's best-known broadcast news readers, Mariushka Diaz and while anyone from the United States could easily understand and identify with news reports of children running away and no one able to find them, such a thing is inconceivable in Cuba. On reflection, however, I realized that this movie had a great deal to say to all sorts of people, both inside and outside of Cuba, because it deals with a phenomenon very profound for so many people, the choice by so many people - sometimes thought about over and over and over - as to should they stay in Cuba or should they leave, and for what reason the individual should make such a choice. Cuban films are filled with this kind of conflicts, which so many Cubans themselves can identify with. My father and his parents used to live in Cuba, and I travel there often. Thanks for your comments, and for this blog, too! Walter Lippmann I saw this movie in a Cuban theater last year. At first, I did not understand it as it seemed completely unlike anything which could actually happen in Cuba. It is inconceivable to me that a couple of children could run away from home in Cuba, get completely across the country, hitching rides and so forth, without being found out. In the movie, one of the characters is one of the island’s best-known broadcast news readers, Mariushka Diaz and while anyone from the United States could easily understand and identify with news reports of children running away and no one able to find them, such a thing is inconceivable in Cuba.

On reflection, however, I realized that this movie had a great deal to say to all sorts of people, both inside and outside of Cuba, because it deals with a phenomenon very profound for so many people, the choice by so many people — sometimes thought about over and over and over — as to should they stay in Cuba or should they leave, and for what reason the individual should make such a choice. Cuban films are filled with this kind of conflicts, which so many Cubans themselves can identify with.

My father and his parents used to live in Cuba, and I travel there often. Thanks for your comments, and for this blog, too!

Walter Lippmann

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