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Cuba plástica

2006 · 52 min

A sober, talk-heavy documentary that lets vivid paintings and blunt testimony carry the weight of hardship.

Directed by
Nicolás Batlle, Sebastián Schindel
Genres
Documentary
Overview
A journey through the hottest conflicts of the last Cuban decade. The fall of the USSR, the special period, the blockade, the visit of the Pope, prostitution, racism, the rafters, are just some of the themes that the most important plastic artists of the island address in a crude, direct and profound way. through his paintings.

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Directed by
Nicolás Batlle, Sebastián Schindel
Genres
Documentary
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    Themes
    • politics
    • isolation
    • race
    • survival
    • art
    Places
    • single country house
    Era
    contemporary
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    • documentary
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language mild
    • Violence mild
    • Sex mild
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    Action0
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension3
    Darkness6
    Complexity5
    Emotional weight6

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    Genres
    documentary
    Directed by
    Nicolás Batlle, Sebastián Schindel, Fernando Molnar
    Written by
    Nicolás Batlle
    Cinematography
    Sebastián Schindel, Fernando Molnar
    Runtime
    52 min
    Country
    Argentina
    Languages
    Spanish

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