Saturday 20 November
1.30pm
CCA + Online
Arturo Sotto I Cuba 1997 I 1h40m I Spanish with English subtitles I Fiction I N/C 18+
Architecture student Estela (Silvia Aguila) makes a suicide attempt after her plans for solving Havana’s housing shortage are rejected. This brings her into contact with earthy, cynical hospital nurse Ernesto (Jorge Perugorria). Estela invites him home for dinner, and he succeeds in offending everyone present. Unable to find a quiet spot to be alone, they finally find a squatters’ tenement, where their sexual frenzy causes a ceiling to collapse. They next try vertical love in a stalled elevator, trapping people in the modern building without stairs. Fleeing responsibilities, they stage a romantic rendezvous alongside a country river, but once again they are interrupted as Cuban officials arrive with papers because the couple constructs a hut beneath a bridge. Amid the misadventures, lust turns to love.
