Virgin Rose ( Rosa de Francia )

Virgin Rose (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: Rosa de Francia
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby DTS 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
93 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.85:1)

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Making Of

Movie filmed in 2005 and produced in:
Cuba ( Latin America, Mexico )
Spain ( Spain, Portugal )

Directed By:
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón

Written By:
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Senel Paz

Actors:
Larissa Vega
Jorge Perugorría ..... Simón
Álex González ..... Andrés
Broselianda Hernández ..... Madame
Ana Celia de Armas ..... Marie
Jorge Losada
Roxana Montenegro

Synopsis:

Once upon a time in Cuba.... at whatever time we want the story to take place. Simon a seductive but criminal man is travelling in an old boat taking clandestine immigrants to New York. He abandons them on a little island and leaves them to their fate, sarcastic and impassive. A North American patrol boat finds the clandestine boat and starts to chase it unbothered by the fact that it is violating Cuban waters. Andrés, a young sailor in the clandestine boat saves Simon's life and is injured by the North American bullets. Simon will always be grateful to the young Andrés, in spite of the fact that he happens to fall in love with Maria, a provocative teenager who is under the protection of the evel Simón. Conflict is inevitable. Marie and Andrés, the couple in love, try to flee from Cuba on their way to New York. Simón is going to do everything possible and impossible to stop them..

A bittersweet fairytale of love and loss set in a stylized Cuba inhabited by virgins, madames and sailors, "Virgin Rose" fuses politics and romance into a dexterous and charming whole. Second Cuba-themed film by vet director Manuel Gutierrez Aragon is set in the '50s but aims at a timelessness. With actor Jorge Perugorria brilliantly squeezing the last drop out of a peach of a role, and a photogenic debut by teen Ana de Armas, this intelligent item should still blossom at festivals.

This product was added to our catalog on Sunday 28 January, 2007.

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