Word: cuba
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...setting was a vast hall in Cuba's government office building, the Palacio de la Revolucion. At first the 68-year-old Cuban leader ``struck me as looking rather frail,'' observes Prager. ``Older than I thought.'' But ``as we got to dinner and we got into a conversation and the adrenaline began to flow, he became the kind of Castro you think Castro ought to be. Lively. Articulate. Talks with his hands, looks...
...wrong side of history. The Soviet patrons who financed his ``socialist paradise'' for three decades have collapsed. The communist bedrock upon which he built his edifice of power has proved itself bankrupt on virtually every continent of the globe. As his own people clamor for a better life, Cuba's socialist dream appears to be fading fast...
...Strawberry and Chocolate," financed with Mexican and Spanish money, marks the return of Cuba's greatest director, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, who 35 years ago produced the masterpiece "Memories of Underdevelopment...
...feel-good movie." However, it is the critique of Cuban society as it stands and the glimpse into a decaying Havana which make Gutierrez Alea's film so pointed and topical. "Strawberry and Chocolate" makes a plea for tolerance, a virtue not much in evidence in Castro's Cuba, which arrested homosexuals and interned them in labor and rehabilitation camps...
...Strawberry and Chocolate" bodes well for the future of the Cuban film industry. Diego says that in spite of all the troubles Cuba has suffered and despite the fact many Cuban artists have been persecuted or exiled, art, which he considers an essential part of the Cuban soul, has man aged to survive and even to thrive. Gutierrez Alea certainly demonstrates the tenacity of the Cuban artist, and if the state of Cuba's economy ever improves, he will reign again in the Cuban film industry...