These visual pyrotechnics are of course enjoyable, after all the cinema is also a spectacle, but 120 years after its birth for the benefit of humanity and culture, with so much talent contributed by artists and technicians across much of the world, nobody should be content merely with the superficiality and simplicity of the shiny outer shell
february 1, 2017@ 16:02:25 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
Maestro of the best melodrama, Ernesto Daranas has now resorted to tragicomedy to recreate an era with a touch of the fabulous, offering a film worthy of being seen and analyzed
september 5, 2018@ 11:09:36 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
I remember once, on our way back from the bunker, we stood on the balcony of our house and saw, in the distance, the sky as red as blood, and I asked my mother: Are they burning the angels in the sky?
december 5, 2019@ 13:12:31 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
The first cinematographer in Cuba to win the National Film Award is the architect, in images, of a good number of Cuban films that remain forever in the imagination of viewers
march 10, 2021@ 08:03:42 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
Condemning "the dictatorship," pulling out your knife and plunging it to the hilt into Cuba, is a bargaining chip to make one’s way within Miami's uncertain cultural circles
november 4, 2021@ 12:11:01 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
The controversy surrounding the film, recently added to the Netflix catalogue, and the pandemic, have meant far more viewers than the most optimistic estimates predicted
july 10, 2020@ 13:07:57 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
While sexual diversity is present in contemporary filmmaking without the stigmas that once condemned it, the road to achieving freedom of expression has been long and tortuous
august 4, 2020@ 11:08:37 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
If we can rightly say that one of our contemporaries is a unique, unrepeatable being, it is Fidel. This does not imply putting him on a pedestal at a distance, but rather assuming his legacy so that it continues to be useful and productive.
august 20, 2020@ 10:08:56 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
For Tabío it was important for viewers to not only have fun and laugh, but also reflect on what they were seeing, feel part of the story
january 27, 2021@ 08:01:44 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt
The allegedly "independent” press expands its work daily with the tenacity of the grateful, who with every stroke of the pen are well paid to disseminate distortions and lies about Cuba
february 11, 2021@ 09:02:45 | Rolando Pérez Betancourt