Product Description

Three characters in present-day havana must choose between clinging to their self-restricting beliefs or getting rid of them to live more freely. Studio: New Yorker Films Video Release Date: 04/27/2004 Run time: 106 minutes

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #82665 in DVD
• Released on: 2002-03-19
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 1.85:1
• Formats: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: Spanish
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 106 minutes

Amazon.com
Where's Cuba? Fernando Perez's colorful tapestry of fantasy and street realism is a troubled love letter to Cuba. Fisherman and musician Luis Alberto Garcia is an abandoned child searching for his mother (aptly named Cuba) in an allegorical journey. He's just one of Perez's orphans, along with a social worker who faints every time she hears the word "sex" and a passionate ballet dancer who promises God her celibacy if she can get the role of Giselle and then falls for her new partner. The metaphorical tales have a tendency to become so abstract they almost dissolve, but the heady sex and throbbing music power it through to the imaginative and sweet climax with magic and color and earthy eroticism. If he never gets an answer to his question, his lush portrait at least sketches his mother country's identity crisis. --Sean Axmaker

Customer Reviews

Beautiful, magical, thoughtful portrait of Cubans today
This movie follows several characters during the Dia de Santa Barbara in Habana CUBA, illustrating how even the lives of veritable strangers are often intimately intertwined. This movie was released in selected markets in the US but was never marketed very widely, and it is a shame because it would have been an eye-opener for many and would have brought the beauty of Cuban art to Americans who are ridiculously barred from experiencing this on their own

Loved it ...
One of my all-time favorite movies. Dance, sex, voudou, tourists, and a german ecologist intersect in Cuba. A bittersweet commedy with mystical overtones (undertones?) that winds up to a suspenseful conclusion.

Excellent Movie
I am Cuban, so I might be bias, but I loved this movie. It is a bit deep and definitely not an easy watch, one has to actually think in order to enjoy it.