September 22, 1999
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N O R T H W
E S T
F IL M
C E N T E R
“Ina country with a severe housing
1999 marks 40 years since government guerilla. Espinosa con shortage (where people exchange
Fidel Castro led the revolu­ ceived of the film as an accommo­ dwellings rather than sell
tion that altered a political dation between “serious” and “popu them as their marriages
landscape that reached far lar" art, as an attempt to combine
beyond Cuba's borders. Ironi­ movie entertainment with a subver­ break up and reform) apart
cally, it is also the year that sive critique of old forms of movie ment-swapping is fueled by
Fidel's likeness is now in Ma­ entertainment. The result was one heartthrobs, hearth-lust and
dame Tussaud's Wax Mu­ of the most widely seen films in sexual and social aspira
tions. In HOUSE FOR
seum. CUBA: INSIDE/OUT is Cuban history.” (113 mins.)
SWAP, a mother executes a
a look at the country from
TUES, OCT 12, 7 PM
within and outside its borders
com plicated three-way
HOUSE FOR SWAP (SE
as it brings together a re­
housing swap to move her
PERMUTA)
markable selection of post­
daughter to a neighborhood
CUBA
1984
revolutionary Cuban cinema
The desire for upward mobility where she can meet a better
in a wide range of styles.
class of boy. When her
in a country where eveyone is con
SAT, OCT 9, 5 & 9 PM
sidered equal is at the center ot daughter gets engaged to a
guantanemera
Tabio’s clever satire and one of fast-talking man, she begins
CUBA 1994
Cuba’s most celebrated comedies. another round of swaps to
GUANTTANEM ERA
cel
ebrates the contradictory nature of
a country’s politics and its people as
it follows Yoyita, a Havana singer
who returns to her small hometown
after 50 years to rekindle a long lost
love. The kindling turns so hot that
her love, Candido, dies with their
embrace. This daring romantic com
edy then turns to the business of
bringing Candido’s coffin back to
Havana, a road trip full of misad­
ventures as Yoyita and her growing
entourage run head-on into the
staple of Cuban life: adversity. Star
ring Mirtha Ibarra, Conchita
Brando, Raul Eguren and Carlos
Cruz, “the film’s target is mindless,
pig headed bureaucracy. The weap "The Day You'll Love Me (El Dia Que Me Quieras)'' will be
ons it brings to bear against it are playing on Friday, October 8 at 7:30 PM and Thursday,
October 14 at 7 PM.
romance, sexuality and irrever
ence." (110 mins.)
MON, OCT II, 7
PM
THE
T h e N ’T o u c h B a n d
P R E S E N T S
win them a dream house. And of
course no sooner is the plan in
place than the lovers start swap­
ping partners. (103 mins.)
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JUAN QUIN QUIN
(LA AVENTURAS
DEJUAN QUIN
QUIN)
CUBA 1967
THE
ADVEN­
TURES OF JUAN
QUIN QUIN is set in
pre-revolutionary Cuba,
where the flim-flam,
jack-of all-trades hero
lives by his wits and ekes
out an existence as, vari­
ously, a farmer, altar
boy, bullfighter and cir­
cus act (as Jesus on the
cross,
no
less).
Godardian Intertitles,
animated sequences.a
dn comic strips further
enliven the anarchic pro
ceedings. An encounter
with cartoonish imperi­
alists ultimately turns
the hero into an anti-
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