Guantanamera (1995)

well off line, you know, children, work and dodgy pcs...off to talk to Norwich Green Party tomorrow tuesday 6pm in the city hall about three principles of anti-capitalist economics.

Watch and enjoyed Guantanamera (1995) last week Tomás Gutiérrez Alea last film,

Alea is the Cuban film director, famous for 'Death of a bureaucrat' 'strawberries and Chocolate' first gay themed Cuban film, consistently good and an antidote to Hollywood (don't they make rubbish films...I suppose a good dose of piracy will eventually cut them down to size).

As well as being very good entertainment, Alea is politically important, supportative of the Cuban revolution but very critical of its failings...he is very much an advocate of a creative, open source socialism and attacks the worst excess of bureaucratic method and statism...now interesting that criticism is tolerated even encouraged in Cuba, different to soviet union and may be even present USA!


“…cinema provides an active and mobilizing element, which stimulates participation in the revolutionary process. Then, it is not sufficient to have a moralizing cinema based on harangue and exhortation. We need a cinema that promotes and develops a critical attitude. But how to criticize and at the same time strengthen the reality in which we are immersed?” quote from Alea on wikipedia.