The Sugar Curtain ( El telón de azúcar ) ( Le rideau de sucre )

The Sugar Curtain (DVD) (*)

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Original Title: El telón de azúcar
Alternate Title: Le rideau de sucre
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Subtitles )
French ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital Stereo )

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

Running Time:
80 min + 30 min extras

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Filmographies
Interactive Menu
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

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

Directed By:
Camila Guzmán Urzúa

Written By:
Camila Guzmán Urzúa

Actors:
Camila Guzmán Urzúa

Synopsis:

Armed with a handheld camera and idyllic childhood memories, Camila Guzmán Urzúa returns to Cuba to confront the possibility of a misremembered past. As she reconnects with the few friends who remain, the Chilean-born filmmaker - who arrived in Cuba in 1973 at the age of two and left in 1990 - strives to align her rosy recollections with the deprivation and decay of modern Havana. The result is a pensive portrait that's less of a paradise lost than of a complex, unsustainable dream.

In the seventies and eighties, Cuba had overcome the crises of the first decade of the revolution and had settled into realizing a new identity, creating the new man Che had envisioned. Despite the lack of many material comforts, the idealism of the people kept afloat their proud, shared conviction that a new type of society was possible. People were not obsessed with consumption and gain and the basic necessities were provided, along with free education and health care. Here is an intimate portrait of those who lived Cuba's utopian dream during the golden era of the revolution. It is also a lament for the end of that dream, which began to fizzle after the fall of the Berlin Wall and has since continued on a downward spiral. Through interviews we learn of the disillusionment the Cuban people suffered--and continue to suffer--seeing the beloved island of their youth turn into a nightmare.

A portrayal of the singular experience shared by people of her generation -- those living Cuba's utopian dream during the golden era of the revolution. It is also a lament for the end of that dream, which began to fizzle after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

This product was added to our catalog on Monday 16 November, 2009.

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