“Mesmerizing, stunning... an ode to a wounded, wondrous country that still bleeds and loses its young to emigration.””
OCEANS ARE THE REAL CONTINENTS / LOS OCÉANOS SON LOS VERDADEROS CONTINENTES
(Tommaso Santambrogio, Italy/Cuba, 2023, 119 min. In Spanish with English subtitles)
A poignant triptych set in contemporary Cuba, shot in stunning black and white: Debut filmmaker Santambrogio renders the ache of leaving and being left with both gritty realism and sensual elegance. Two young artists in love confront the collision of his passion for her with her burning desire to leave Cuba behind; a sensitive, baseball-obsessed boy detects the impending trauma of his family uprooting for Miami; and an elderly woman, solitary in her ramshackle home, enshrines letters she received from her husband, taken from her three decades earlier fighting a faraway war. A Film Movement release.
Opens, Friday, January 10
Film Forum
209 West Houston St., New York City
For tickets and more information visit: https://www.filmforum.org.
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