"An animated movie filled with beautiful images and music of the great Bebo Valdés background that could have been much better if the love story would have been more original and better dialogue"
I'm not sure how to get in on avi text Chico & Rita. I can stick to a critique sheet telling that it is an animated film for adults result from the union of two talents, Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal. Continue describing to the reader that nothing requires as a story of love and hate rocked by the Latin rhythms of Cuba 50. But I would not stay quiet.
Because Chico & Rita is not film animation or story of love and heartbreak. Neither a tribute to Cuban music. The truth is that every one of these things. It is the fruit of long and meticulous work of two authors who are full creativity of the seven sides and delivering a technically flaw less film steeped in emotion. A craft work in which was filmed actors of flesh and blood to aid in the interpretation of those characters inspired by the technique of motion capture, that unfold in a beautiful, impressionistic atmosphere created from a mixture of traditional animation and in 3D. A recreation of drawings of what was Cuba in the 50's, before the fall of the Batista government. Those golden years for music of the island.
And that is transporting the viewer in the first minute. The island-nostalgia and euphoria that Latin jazz is so essential in Chico & Rita. I say essential because the music of the film could not be otherwise. The arrangements pianist Bebo Valdés has made for a soundtrack themes are masterly, which I have read was exactly the same attention as the "break" from the movie. The chilling voice of the singer Estrella Morente accompanying notes piano Bebo. As Trueba says, when Chico plays the piano is who touches Bebo. And it is he whom it is directed the film being his great inspiration.
Chico is a pianist one night at a club hears love sing and Rita left of it (like the viewer).Some dialogues seductive male and female haughty looks elusive, fatal attraction. The dark blue eyes and yellow dress has been stuck deep in the brain to Chico, and Rita falls exhausted in his arms a couple of shots later. Thus begins a beautiful and sad story that love between two non-stop, anywhere in the world. From Havana to New York, Paris to LasVegas. They love over conflict and distance above the mis understanding and circumstances.
Chico is a pianist one night at a club hears love sing and Rita left of it (like the viewer).Some dialogues seductive male and female haughty looks elusive, fatal attraction. The dark blue eyes and yellow dress has been stuck deep in the brain to Chico, and Rita falls exhausted in his arms a couple of shots later. Thus begins a beautiful and sad story that love between two non-stop, anywhere in the world. From Havana to New York, Paris to LasVegas. They love over conflict and distance above the mis understanding and circumstances.
The story of predictability small perhaps, but nothing matters. Because it is an allegory to the survival of feeling and because if you want, you create it. We thank a lot to feel this urge Trueba melomania and film casting, because he has left a precious stone in which the characters are equally or more expressive than many actors. Scenes such as Chico and Rita make love, the shadows on their bodies and her foot gently to the ground by dropping a piano score, not to me I can remove the head.
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The film Chico & Rita is a declaration of love for Cuba, its people, culture and music of this country, said Fernando Trueba about the recent opening in Havana of his first animated.
The Spanish director, winner of the 1994 Oscar for best foreign language film by Belle Epoque, with the starring Ariadna Gil, confirms this adult animated film for the same musical devotion in Calle 54 (2000).
The film was shot Chico and Rita originally in the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños in the province of Havana, and involves over 70 musicians and actors.
The film music is an important player. They play some of the best artists living on the island and meet others who contract the outside, all very large, said Trueba.
It is the last work of Bebo Valdés, who is 92 years after this was removed. Therefore it is dedicated to him. Project it was recently at Malaga and was very nice. I cried like a child, for me it was a special moment, unique, exclusive confessed to Prensa Latina.
Involved many generations, from young and Rolando Luna, Rodney Barreto, Carlos Sarduy and Dafnis Prieto, Horacio "the Black Hernandez," Amadito Valdes, Idania his daughter, Pedrito Martinez, Ricardo Santa Cruz, who died recently, a lot of good people, he stressed.
Born January 18, 1955, Fernando Rodriguez Trueba your real name, started in 1980 with debut and a filmography that includes 14 titles and three Goya awards (1990, 1993 and 2004).
In explaining why a lively 90 minutes of footage with 146 sequences and 130 000 frames, all based on original by Javier Mariscal, also expressed his admiration for the sexagenarian Valencian designer based in Barcelona.
The animation was what we could unite. I am an admirer of Marshall, I was obsessed to imagine his drawings, colors, lines in a movie, and the friendship that was the way we do something together, work together, he said.
The other thing that unites us is love for Cuba, Cuban music, Latin music, jazz. Everything came together and that has left Chico & Rita, summed up the director of the dance of victory, the Spanish Oscar nominee 2009.
The other tape was also exhibited in 32 Latin American Film Festival as part of the sample in Spain.
In connection with the coveted statuette, Trueba said he did not think it works. For me the most important is to see a movie like Chico & Rita in a theater full of Cubans. That is more important than the awards, he stressed.
Cuba is a musical superpower, Europe and Africa here and married to the best of both traditions. The mixture is born on this island has the subtlety, richness, culture of Impressionism and the rhythmic flow, the vitality of Africa. All this is too, concluded the Spanish creator.
The Spanish director, winner of the 1994 Oscar for best foreign language film by Belle Epoque, with the starring Ariadna Gil, confirms this adult animated film for the same musical devotion in Calle 54 (2000).
The film was shot Chico and Rita originally in the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños in the province of Havana, and involves over 70 musicians and actors.
The film music is an important player. They play some of the best artists living on the island and meet others who contract the outside, all very large, said Trueba.
It is the last work of Bebo Valdés, who is 92 years after this was removed. Therefore it is dedicated to him. Project it was recently at Malaga and was very nice. I cried like a child, for me it was a special moment, unique, exclusive confessed to Prensa Latina.
Involved many generations, from young and Rolando Luna, Rodney Barreto, Carlos Sarduy and Dafnis Prieto, Horacio "the Black Hernandez," Amadito Valdes, Idania his daughter, Pedrito Martinez, Ricardo Santa Cruz, who died recently, a lot of good people, he stressed.
Born January 18, 1955, Fernando Rodriguez Trueba your real name, started in 1980 with debut and a filmography that includes 14 titles and three Goya awards (1990, 1993 and 2004).
In explaining why a lively 90 minutes of footage with 146 sequences and 130 000 frames, all based on original by Javier Mariscal, also expressed his admiration for the sexagenarian Valencian designer based in Barcelona.
The animation was what we could unite. I am an admirer of Marshall, I was obsessed to imagine his drawings, colors, lines in a movie, and the friendship that was the way we do something together, work together, he said.
The other thing that unites us is love for Cuba, Cuban music, Latin music, jazz. Everything came together and that has left Chico & Rita, summed up the director of the dance of victory, the Spanish Oscar nominee 2009.
The other tape was also exhibited in 32 Latin American Film Festival as part of the sample in Spain.
In connection with the coveted statuette, Trueba said he did not think it works. For me the most important is to see a movie like Chico & Rita in a theater full of Cubans. That is more important than the awards, he stressed.
Cuba is a musical superpower, Europe and Africa here and married to the best of both traditions. The mixture is born on this island has the subtlety, richness, culture of Impressionism and the rhythmic flow, the vitality of Africa. All this is too, concluded the Spanish creator.
To carry out this animated film, Mariscal was inspired by photographs of Cuba in 1949 recreating all the scenarios with the precision of a craftsman. And to give more realism to the movements of the illustrations, with real actors filmed in Havana, in order to obtain optical information required on the gestures of the actors to recreate the camera moves.
As background music, sound tracks from Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo of Cuban, American and Cuban merging talents. But the real sound track puts BeboValdes. Approximate running time: 30 minutes.
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Title: Chico & Rita
Directors: Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal
Country: Cuba, Spain, United Kingdom
Year: 2011
Duration: 94 min.
Genre: Romance, Animation, Music
Double: Mario Guerra, Limara Meneses, Estrella Morente, Eman Xor Oña
Animator: Jean Cullen De Moura, Marcelo Fernandes De Moura
Casting: David H. Kramer
Music: Bebo Valdés
Sound: Alex F. Capilla, Iñaki Sanchez, Nacho Royo, Patrick Ghislain, Pelayo Gutierrez, Ricardo Viñas.
Music: Bebo Valdés
Sound: Alex F. Capilla, Iñaki Sanchez, Nacho Royo, Patrick Ghislain, Pelayo Gutierrez, Ricardo Viñas.
Distributor: Sony Pictures
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