Movie
Santa & Andres
2016 · 105 min
A quiet, thoughtful two-hander that unfolds with gentle tension and deep empathy, like watching two guarded strangers slowly recognize each other's humanity.
- Directed by
- Carlos Lechuga
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Lola Amores, Eduardo Martinez, Luna Tinoco
- Overview
- Santa, a peasant woman loyal to the Revolution, is sent to guard Andrés, a gay writer who is under house arrest, considered “ untrustworthy” for his ideas and sexuality by the Cuban authorities. Set in a small village in eastern Cuba during the early 1980s, this poignant political drama depicts an encounter between two deeply thoughtful souls on opposite sides of a profound cultural divide. Both have experienced deep loss, and both know the damaging effects of isolation and oppression. Even so, the cavernous ideological divide separating them — the same one that has separated Cuban friends and kin for over 50 years — has until now seemed insurmountable.
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- Directed by
- Carlos Lechuga
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Lola Amores, Eduardo Martinez, Luna Tinoco
