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Life is to Whistle Entry from Cuba 106 min, 35mm; Col It is the day of Santa Barbara, the African saint of destinies. Change, causes the lives of three very different people to intersect on the humid streets of modern Havana. Mariana is an oversexed ballerina. Elpido is a petty thief who likes to call up the women whose bags he has stolen. Finally there is Julia, a rather uptight assistant at an old peoples’ home, who faints whenever she hears the word ‘sex’ - which sounds more odd than it is, given that much of the populace suffers a variation of this malady, with most of the afflicted dropping like flies when they hear the word ‘freedom’. These three storylines are woven into a quilt, part magical, part realist.Life is to Whistle has won the Best Film, Best Director and Best Cinematography awards as well as the International Critics Prize at the last Havana Film Festival. DIRECTOR:Fernando Perez (born: 1944), worked as a critic for Cine Cubana magazine and other publications and wrote a book about the young filmmakers who documented the Sandinista rebellion in Nicaragua. He made his debut in filmmaker as an assistant to Tamas Guttierrez Alea and went on to direct several documentaries. Cast :- Luis alberto Garcia, Caludia Rojas, Isabel Santos, Coralia Veloz, Rotando Brito, Bebe Perez |
