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CUBA FELIZ
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France - Cuba
2000 / 35 mm / Color / 90 min.
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Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo, is a street singer. He has a dream, and he pursues it across Cuba. This is the land of musical legends: salsa stars, rappers from the poor urban districts, extravagant old-time orchestras, bolero singers, jamming jazzmen, mystical drummers, village merrymakers. On the road, in trains, backyards and bustling streets, music blends with his errant life as El Gallo translates these moments into songs he knows by heart. In the course of his wandering through Cuba, through Santiago, Guantanamo, Camaguey and Trinidad, the singer meets a musical people who welcome him as a brother and play with him at the drop of a hat. El Gallo's only baggage is his guitar case. A denizen of the street, El Gallo opens himself up and transforms himself to suit his audience and environment. He discovers laughter, dance and improvisation, the passion of trumpets and simple songs hummed among friends. But reality comes knocking. When his trip around Cuba is over, the dream ends and El Gallo finds himself back where he started, with a cigarette in his mouth, watching the freighters come and go in the port of Havana.
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Script: Pascal Letellier, Karim Dridi.
Phot.: Karim Dridi.
Ed.: Lise Beaulieu.
Cast: Miguel del Morales dit �El Gallo�, Candido Fabre, Mirta Gonzales, Alejandro Almenares, Armandito Machado, Gilberto Mendez, Pepin Vaillant, Anibal Avila, Za�da Reyte, Paisan Mallet, Cesar Nabas dit �Antonio�, Los Cubanos Jubilados.
Prod.: Alain Rozanes, Pascal Verroust, Jacques Debs, ADR Productions, 2, rue de la Roquette, 75011 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 43 14 34 34, fax: (33-01) 43 14 34 30, e-mail: [email protected] / Le Studio Canal + / El Movimiento de video de Cuba.
Sales: Le Studio Canal +, 47, rue Dumont-d'Urville, 75016 Paris (France), t�l.: (33-01) 44 43 98 39, fax: (33-01) 47 20 29 58.
Canadian Distributor: TVA International.
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Karim Dridi
Born in Tunis in 1961, Karim Dridi grew up in France and travelled to Vancouver at the age of 19 in order to perfect his English but he spent most of his time in moviehouses. On his return to France, he made a brief attempt to enroll in IDHEC, the French national film school, then resumed his self-education at the Cin�math�que fran�aise. In 1985 Dridi directed his first short film, Mains de, and followed it with: Dans le sac (1987), La Danse de Saba (1988), New -r�ve (1989) and Le Boxeur endormi (1993). He made his feature debut in 1994 with PIGALLE. He directed BYE-BYE in 1995, an experimental documentary, Impression d'Afrique du Sud, in 1996, and FOUL PLAY in 1998, all of which were shown at the Montreal World Film Festival. |
