cuban films

Part 1- Strawberry and Chocolate 

https://youtu.be/g5PCk4eG9J4?si=JulSPiG3bB8bpjEX

The Wolf, the Forest and the New Man and Strawberry and Chocolate reflect the year 1979. During the film we will see references to a particularly repressive moment in Cuba (1971-1976) which was later referred to as the “Grey Quinquenio” – five years during which artists, writers, homosexuals and religious were marginalized and censored for not following a hard line of the socialist realism. The film partly reflects the subsequent discussion of that process. It makes references to the Cold War, to the missile crisis and the situation of intellectuals during that period.

Reflect on the movie and focus on the following topic: positive and negative aspects of the “Cuban Revolution”

Part 2- Nothing +

https://youtu.be/nsNOSrQm4kw?si=bXLSqB2HyoTK0KHR

The protagonist of Nothing + (Nada Más) works in a post office in Havana.

Reflect on writing, reading and the city.

Possible approaches:

the postal system

the reading of letters

the writing

the traffic

the panorama

the inhabitants of the city and the letters

the themes of the letters

writing and reading as life-transforming

Havana or exile