While you're away

"The film within a film"

A producer and a screenwriter Cubans (Mirtha Ibarra, Barbaro Marin) bind to a Spanish actor and producer (Antonio Valero) to make a film about people leaving the island, you can not go and do not want. What problem friend!.

The three of them try to agree to make a film (within it) on Cubans leaving the island looks like a simple idea, but as the film proceeds, we realize that the tragedy is compounded when Spanish and Cubans have different views of how to view life.

Yes, this film tells the Cuban rootlessness, feelings aroused by the country when you're away or when you want to go and can not. But not, I think that will sit in the living room to watch a group of Cubans idle, trying to flirt with foreign one day decide to reach the coast of Florida on a small raft. Quite the contrary. Precisely what Juan Carlos Tabío aims with this film is to break with the topical visions of reality that are of Cuban Spanishand viceversa. A film by the director "is denying continually." The director of "Waiting List" comes in "While you're away" a "history of encounters and clashes with the theme of exile present, in which the characters are the elements to discuss aspects of Cuban reality and universal Spanish ". In this film should not speak of a single script, or even a single film, because in reality, we face three stories, almost four, brilliantly strung together, are interwoven in a coherent and fluid. In fact unites Tabío
the first and the last, significant circularity, around a common place: the airport.

It's funny the way for the filmmaker to tell the story. This game film within a film, which serves Tabío for a set of double glass. Co-director of "Fresa and Chocolate" recognizes that haunt Chinese boxes and this film shows the viewer confusing reality and fiction blur. Finally, "While you're away" highlights some 'hot' topics of the Cuban reality, such as migration, the apparent religious intolerance of the early years of the Revolution. Issues, all very topical social Tabío has learned to deal with finesse, giving them the right time, no less, not to step on the real engine of the story: love, reunion and distance. With respect to the Cuban film highlights the importance of co-productions to take forward the film in his country. One issue that defends, but which also ironically."While you're away" and confirmed. A film that will surely bring laughter, silence and reflection.

But what about the actors!. An accurate cast to represent the film. Established artists such as Susana Perez and Mirtha Ibarra invite the viewer to follow step by step their actions and dialogues. Mijail Mulkay y Bárbaro Marín and also managed his own in the drama. Spanish actor Antonio Valero was able to demonstrate its leadership role with histrionic and Laura Ramos (graduated in Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Arte in Havana), a young talent of Cuban cinema, in his role as resident in Spain showed how to any Cuban who is abroad, it can happen the same.

 

Who is Juan Carlos Tabío?

The Juan Carlos Tabío film has always had a very personal style. From his work with Tomás Gutierrez Alea ("Strawberry and Chocolate," "Guantanamera"), his film career away from the clichés that surround the island of Cuba, to make way for stories told with unusual closeness. This is readily apparent as the Cuban director gives his characters an absolute dedication.

With "While you're away" gets a similar effect but this time the premise that some further enriches the whole. Thus, the viewer becomes a participant in a game that gives too much juice. This game is able to distinguish between reality and fiction. To do this, the use of the "film within a film" puts the original basis of this hoopla is sustained effortlessly thanks to the good work of its performers (always a pleasure to see someone work as Mirta Ibarra), truncated characters full of dreams who want to regaineven the fiction of a movie script.

With this story, offering different visions Tabío: people who want to leave the island and people can not live anywhere else, confusing scenarios to the point where he was proclaimed winner of his own game: the line between fiction and reality is almost imperceptible. Thus, this Spanish-Cuban concoction complete with a dramatic dynamic exercise where humor finds its place in a production that, wink wink behind, trapping the ends whenever a viewer unaware.

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Snapshots taken to the new actress Laura Ramos

Photo Shoot Mijail Mulkay and Mejida Issa for the magazine "Cast"

Starring

Antonio Valero

Mirtha Ibarra y Antonio Valero

Mirtha Ibarra

Mirtha Ibarra y Bárbaro Marín

Bárbaro Marín

Susana Pérez

Mijail Mulkay

Laura Ramos

Sheet

Títle: While you're away

Direccion: Juan Carlos Tabío

Country: España, Cuba

Duration: 88 min.

Gender: Drama, Comedia

Distribution:

Antonio Valero, Mirta Ibarra, Laura Ramos, Roberto Enríquez, Bárbaro Marín, Susana Pérez, Mijail Mulkay, Carlos Kaniowsky, Marta Belaustegui

Screenplay: Juan Carlos Tabío, Arturo Arango

Casting: Camilla-Valentine Isola

Art Department: Juan Lorenzo Prada

Production design: Wolfgang Burmann

Photographic: Hans Burman

Original History: Arturo Arango, Juan Carlos Tabío

Original Idea: Juan Carlos Tabío

Assembly: Carmen Frías

Music: Nicolás Reynoso

Executive Producer: Mariela Besuievski

Production online: Josean Gómez

Sound: Jorge Ruiz

Producer

"Tornasol Films"

The Film Online

(Part 1)

(Part 2)

Qué Tengo Pa' Tí

2013