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...every subsequent scene. The next shot is a scene in an impeccably furnished apartment in Madrid. Manuela, an organ-transplant nurse played by Cecilia Roth (a luminary of the foreign film industry, with an uncanny ability to evoke tears) sits watching All About Eve with her son, Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Esteban is turning 17 the next day, and his eyes seem bright with literary genius and joie d'vivre. The relationship between mother and son is close, with Manuela and Esteban joking about sex and exchanging intellectual banter...
...film, for all its verbal and emotional buoyancy, touches a depth his earlier work danced around, like revelers on a volcano's edge. Mother begins by painting an idyll: of Manuela (Cecilia Roth), a nurse who works in her hospital's organ-transplant unit, and her darling son Esteban (Eloy Azorin). Manuela is the mom every gay, or simply sensitive, son would adore. She watches All About Eve with him, gives him a Truman Capote book for his birthday, takes him to a production of A Streetcar Named Desire. He is a sweet, giving lad with a lot of promise...
...legendary Eva Peron, wife of Argentina's great dictator and unofficial queen of the masses, is one of history's most elusive figures, lending herself more easily to pop-opera deification than standard biography. Tomas Eloy Martinez's absorbing and intricate new novel, Santa Evita, uses so many narrative tricks to both remedy and explore this problem that it almost defies description...
...Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo, "opponent'' is something of a career description. As part of Fidel Castro's rebel army in the 1950s, he led 3,000 men against the Batista dictatorship. When the victorious Castro moved politically into the Soviet camp, Menoyo launched a quixotic raid against his former comrades. That landed him in a Cuban jail for 22 years. Released in 1987, he flew to Miami, where he was greeted by cheering crowds of fellow exiles...
...Plan A. The rafters were a way of forcing Clinton to look again at the sanctions. Another was last week's carefully orchestrated conferences in Madrid between Cuban Foreign Minister Roberto Robaina and three leaders of the Cuban opposition based in Miami. The three -- Ramon Cernuda, Alfredo Duran and Eloy Gutierrez Menoyo -- are all considered moderates in the world of Cuban exile politics, and all strongly favor lifting the U.S. embargo...