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Havana Divas

2018 · 91 min

A gentle, wistful portrait of two elderly women revisiting a lost stage life, carried by music and memory.

Directed by
S. Louisa Wei
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Caridad Amaran, Georgina Wong Guitierrez, Franco Yuen
Overview
The story focus on Caridad and Georgina, who had learned the art of Cantonese Opera in Havana as a young age and performed as divas for over a decade before their lives were changed by Fidel Castro's revolution.

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Directed by
S. Louisa Wei
Genres
Documentary
Starring
Caridad Amaran, Georgina Wong Guitierrez, Franco Yuen
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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • memory
  • art
  • identity
  • immigration
  • aging
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
  • true story
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour2
Realism9
Romance2
Tension2
Darkness3
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Genres
documentary
Directed by
S. Louisa Wei
Starring
Caridad Amaran, Georgina Wong Guitierrez, Franco Yuen, Siu Yin-Fei
Runtime
91 min
Country
Hong Kong
Languages
Cantonese, Spanish, English

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