CULTURE

“Little Joe” is a film rarity that deserves to be seen more than once. A film that, above all, questions the concept of widespread well-being, seen as a homogeneous ideal.

Hardly anyone imagines that behind Eugenio Hernández Castañeda, a sturdy and affable young man who sometimes pedals on a biketaxi through the streets of Caimito, there is a talent of lyrical art in Cuba. Nor do they imagine that his brother Sam, sometimes at the “helm” of the same biketaxi, is an excellent special effects creator for Cuban Television.

No obstacle seems to stop her. Much less the scarcity of vision. He writes persistently and does it especially well. From this magnificent gift he has left evidence in several books and in an important international award won in Spain. Today Gilda Guimeras Pareja, a habanera residing in Guanajay, satisfied with life in spite of everything, and having found enlightenment and fullness in her approach to the Catholic Church, has much to tell readers of the New Word.

For its nonconformity, the struggle to maintain its conquests and overcome as a study, conglomerate or companionship, A day at Disney deserves to be enjoyed following the biblical proverb: “meek as a dove and cautious as a snake”. Well, according to a certain opinion, “the more sensitive, the more reliable,” although it is also true that reflexive sensibility can be an extraordinary delight. Let us not give up on her, especially when watching this documentary.

Adding to the unstoppable list of audiovisuals about the Spanish Civil War and its impact on Europe and for everyone, “The Silence of others” sets a stop in the way to reflect, because it intervenes so much in our lives, thanks to all that we know, and even, despite what has been intended to hide from it.

This time a gift from the package, the film The Painted Bird, a film that irritates the viewer more than once, however he is convinced that earthly misery and misfortune have more than one name.

Danny Trejo, a figure in the seventh art, without hesitation, is also a leading advisor to overcoming drug addiction and a par excellence activist. Cinema, yes, makes people better. But it is not often that within their inner veils, full of banalities and miseries, many manage to get out angry, projecting modest and prestos, against wind and tide, to improve the human condition.

If there was consensus among the heterogeneous group of filmmakers that made up the International Catholic Film Office (OCIC, now part of Signis) in the mid-1990s, it was to call Walfredo Piñera a teacher. He came from walking long and tortuous paths, always loyal to his compass: he had long been the dean of film criticism in Cuba, with unalterable Christian faith. Be this text, a well-deserved tribute to him and his work, ninety years after his birth.

The film The Old Guard (2020) seems, in its early days, a policeman and suddenly reveals itself as what it really is: a superhero adventure. Although sailing off its territory, director Gina Prince-Bythewood (Love and Basketball, The Secret Life of Bees, Behind the Lights…), comes out of this start which, it seems, will have continuity. With the screenplay by Greg Rucka, the film is based on the comic of the same name, whose authors are Rucka and illustrator Leandro Fernández. Among others, it stars Charlize Theron, Kiki Layne, Matthias Schoenaerts, Luca Marinelli, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Marwan Kenzari.

For the young and laureate Cuban pianist Franco Rivero Bueno, creation must first be a passionate flow within the performer and then a tune of blending with the audiences. In order to commemorate on August 6th the 125th anniversary of the birth of Ernesto Lecuona, Palabra Nueva approaches the artistic work of this young musician, who is considered, today, the greatest connoisseur and practitioner of the Lecuonian work.