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La obra del siglo

  • 2015
  • 1 h 40 min
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La obra del siglo (2015)
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Adicionar um enredo no seu idiomaIn an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the "project of th... Ler tudoIn an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the "project of the century" describe its ambitious scope.In an abandoned nuclear project conceived by Cuba and the USSR, a disillusioned engineer survives with his mean father and his frustrated son, while 1970s found footage of the "project of the century" describe its ambitious scope.

  • Direção
    • Carlos Quintela
  • Roteiristas
    • Abel Arcos Soto
    • Carlos Quintela
  • Artistas
    • Mario Balmaseda
    • Mario Guerra
    • Leonardo Gascón
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    • Direção
      • Carlos Quintela
    • Roteiristas
      • Abel Arcos Soto
      • Carlos Quintela
    • Artistas
      • Mario Balmaseda
      • Mario Guerra
      • Leonardo Gascón
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    Mario Balmaseda
    • Otto
    Mario Guerra
    • Rafael
    Leonardo Gascón
    • Leo
    Jorge Molina
    • The Fumigator
    Manuel Porto
    • The Neighbor
    Damarys Gutiérrez
    • Marta
    Reinier González
    • Sports Narrator
    • (narração)
    Natalia Nikolaevna
    • The Soprano
    Osmel Portilla
    • Picapiedra
    Margite Rodriguezowa
    • The Russian Professor
    • Direção
      • Carlos Quintela
    • Roteiristas
      • Abel Arcos Soto
      • Carlos Quintela
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    Debris

    Carlos Quintela has a jovial disposition and a diaphanous nature, but with him things are not "easy": his flow of ideas is coherent, but it may seem a bit complex to those adept at superficial readings. His debut feature «La piscina» (The Swimming Pool) seemed a simple tale of five people meeting at a public pool during a summer day, but there was more than meets the eyes, from dramatic threads that were not shown with the usual resources of film narrative, to a calculated strategy to film them. With his next work «La obra del siglo» the complexity is an intrinsic and integral part of the whole package.

    An ambitious film, sometimes excessive and overwhelming, it is both a coldly objective and a painfully felt verification of the futility of human works, built behind the real needs of people. To anyone reading this, it may sound rhetoric: however, Quintela has placed on the table the failed and truncated construction of a nuclear metropolis in the midst of an island plagued with privations and limitations. When the film ended, the word that came to my mind was "debris" because -even if we love the Cuban people, even if we are grateful for the love, knowledge, medical care and "Latino dignity" that we received or learned from them- what we are left with when the end credits roll is the leftovers of lack of foresight and essential humanity, disguised as a monument to collective welfare.

    All this is told through two basic levels: first, Quintela inserted re-edited sections of archive footage of the real "project of the century" known as Nuclear City, in the province of Cienfuegos. With the aid of Soviet consultancy and capital, the Cuban government began to build a nuclear plant and a city in 1982, but the project was left unfinished with the end of the Soviet Union and the fall of the Berlin wall. The color footage was edited with its own narration, loaded with the typical demagoguery of government propaganda, with the explicit agenda of convincing the people that they needed the plant, as the narrator was probably thinking that what he really needed was a more decent existence in the middle of the blockade (of almost all nations in the planet, let's be fair, not only of the United States), internal bad administration and corruption, and more than a century of cultural and political indoctrination (mainly through the media) of all the masses and elites of the world, aligned with the ideology of the "American way".

    The second level (in black and white) is incorporated in an organic way, and tells the story of three survivors of the Cuban revolution, seen from their own perspectives: a mean and heartless old father (Mario Balmaseda), who lived both in Capitalism and Socialism, and who illustrates the sexist smugness and arrogance inherited by many male Cubans, just because they were born men; his frustrated son (Mario Guerra), an engineer educated by the revolution, turned into an skeptical witness of the setback of the Nuclear City, a project that was also his own, in which he put all his hope, but led him to work in a pigsty; and a grandson (Leonardo Gascón), an anodyne being who has left his woman, who is seeking for a refuge and who only finds vital expressions through his tattoos, an old cell phone and masturbation.

    Unlike the lineal narrative of «La piscina», this time Quintela found in Yan Vega the person to give consistency to the ideas that he and screenwriter Abel Arcos wrote, imagined, talked about, and improvised during shooting. The result is an open structure that includes other elements that enrich the fiber of the discourse: songs with corny lyrics; peculiar characters as the fumigator (Jorge Molina, in one of his ingenious interventions, even in short roles), the Russian teacher, the operatic singer, and the fat cyclist girlfriend.

    Even the damage of the video footage, the ruin of the electronic register in U-Matic, is a completely telling component, relevant with the key technological aspect of the story, including a scene from Sara Gómez Yera's film «De cierta manera», in which Balmaseda appeared 40 years ago, that gives an integral portrait of the grandfather, and expresses a feeling we all humans experience when facing change: fear.

    Cubans have reached an extreme point in which people need comfort as an important element to lead a dignified and happy life, as an almost basic requirement to turn life into an aesthetic experience... that those in power do have. Carlos Quintela knows how to transmit the ugly landscape of privation and decay, with the help of beautiful images by Hungarian-Bolivian cinematographer Marcos Attila; and with them, he has attained another major achievement in his filmography and a noteworthy contribution to the cinema of Cuba.

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      Winner of the Critics' Award for Best Film in the Lima International Film Festival 2015.

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    • Data de lançamento
      • 15 de abril de 2016 (Polônia)
    • Países de origem
      • Argentina
      • Cuba
      • Alemanha
      • Suíça
    • Idiomas
      • Espanhol
      • Russo
    • Também conhecido como
      • The Project of the Century
    • Locações de filme
      • Cuba
    • Empresas de produção
      • Ammo Content
      • Rizoma Films
      • Uranio Films
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      • Black and White

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