House for Swap (Tabio, 1983): Garden Cinema, 4.20pm
This film is part of the Cuban film season at the Garden Cinema. Full details here.
The
screening will be followed by a Q&A with special guests from Cuba,
distinguished cinema actors Mirtha Ibarra and Eslinda Núñez.
Garden Cinema introduction:
This
film heralded a new genre of sociocritical comedy in Cuba and was the
debut feature of director Juan Carlos Tabio. It is full of Cubanisms –
popular everyday problems, language and attitudes of that era and a
range of characters from an idealist architect to an opportunistic
bureaucrat. Gloria
wants her adult daughter to find a husband, who she considers a “good
match”, and engineers a chain of house swaps to move to a “better
neighbourhood” to make things go her way - but her daughter has
different ideas and to love who she wants. It examines the desire to get
ahead in a society that says everyone is equal but also celebrates the
resourcefulness with which people solve their own problems.
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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