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11/19: Yo Soy Cuba (free screening, please RSVP)
11/19: Yo Soy Cuba (free screening, please RSVP)

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Arthouse at Blue Star

11/19: Yo Soy Cuba (free screening, please RSVP)

The first movie ever jointly presented by master filmmakers Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, I Am Cuba is one of the great discoveries in cinema.

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Nov 19, 2023, 3:00 PM – Nov 20, 2023, 5:30 PM

Arthouse at Blue Star, 134 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204, USA

About the Event

Started only a week after the Cuban missile crisis and designed to be Cuba's answer to both Sergei Eisenstein's propaganda masterpiece, Potemkin and Jean-Luc Godard's freewheeling romance, Breathless, I Am Cuba turned out to be something quite unique — a wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist kitsch, mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality. The plot, or rather plots, feverishly explore the seductive, decadent (and marvelously photogenic) world of Batista's Cuba — deliriously juxtaposing images of rich Americans and bikini-clad beauties sipping cocktails poolside with scenes of ramshackle slums filled with hungry children and gaunt old people. Using wide-angle lenses that distort and magnify and filters that transform palm trees into giant white feathers, Urusevsky's acrobatic camera achieves wild gravity-defying angles as it glides effortlessly through long continuous shots. But I Am Cuba is not just a catalog of bravura technique — it also succeeds in exploring the innermost feelings of the…

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134 Blue Star
San Antonio, TX 78210
arthouse@slabcinema.com
Tel: 210-212-9373

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