His number will always be associated with Fresa y Chocolate, the only Cuban film nominated by Oscar and also the winner of a Goya, which was written with his intimate friend Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, one of the greatest Cuban filmmakers. Pero Juan Carlos Tabío (1943-2021), failed the moon in La Habana 77 years, is among the most important numbers of the Cuban cinema by its comedic anthologies and its ability to retrieve the Cuban reality in its contradictions with a language of humor and intelligent irony, which was like a wave in the higado, which invited to reflect. Tabío was due to a style of play, but it was tremendous, although it was easy even between giants and deep conscience, nothing of boberías. Era is the mago of the Cuban costume comedy.
Born in La Habana in 1943 and with the opening of 18 years, the Cubano Institute of Art and Industrial Cinematography (ICAIC) began its creation, giving commencement as production and management assistant. Made more than 30 documentaries, some of the sequels that followed a mandatory consultation, as directed by Cuba of the Spanish poet Federico García Lorca in 1930.
The ojo y mano de Tabío para documentary le lvevaron a la fiction – en la que se estrenó en 1983 con el largometraje Se Permuta, comedy of enredos that is a radiography of the day and the Cuban of that time. The film was very applauded by the public and the critics, and we will also hear the resurrection of Olivier to the great Cuban Rosita Fornés, who has won numerous awards for his paper.
A year ago I wrote with Gutierrez Alea the guion of Hasta Cierto Punto, filmed directed by the second that marks the beginning of the second collaboration between filmmakers, and that diez years after the level to codirigir Fresa y Chocolate (1993) y Guantanamera (1995), probably two of the most successful Cuban films in international history.
The history of Fresa y Chocolate is well known. The film, directed at La Habana in the midst of the agony crisis of the Special Period, traces the disappearance of the socialist camp, tells the story of the love of a young communist and a homosexual marginalized in Cuba for his form. The film is much more than a simple critique of the persecution of homosexuality at a stage of the revolution. It was all about a grit against intolerance and the favor of individual liberty and the right to think differently, and to have a great repercussion, as much as the power of Cuba, where there are numerous premiums (the first run the Oso de Plata in the Festival of Berlin and other countries won the Oscar, which made it a finalist in the category of best foreign film in 1994).
During the shootout, Gutiérrez Alea was undergoing cancer and Tabío parried the movie that was being filmed at the moment, The elephant and the bicycle, to code with el Fresa y Chocolate. “It’s the act of love and the greatest love that he has presented in the cinema,” said actor Jorge Perugorría, the protagonist. Los dos regisseur trabajaron codo con codo, Fresa y Chocolate was an absolute success and Tabío ended up watching the movie she dated in the media. Antes Juan Carlos había firmado Plaff (1988), otra of his genius comedians in the retreat of the avid cotidian and surrealistic avatars that the Cubans have passed since the present year.
“It’s costume and its humor is its cell”, assures certain times of its death, very affected, Perugorría. “I believe that one of the directors who with more fidelity retired the cubaneo and that logos will do with his work a radiography of the national identity “, says the actor, distancing” his sense of corrosive humor, but it was not simply a pastime “. “Use the satire to make a retreat from society, connect with the person giving a deep laugh, even if the critique subvalues the comedy”.
This work is a line of entertainment and dichotomous algorithms, which it is obligatory to have if you want to enter Cuba in its time. Here is my Lista Espera (1999), Aunque estés lejos (2003) o The Corner of Abundance (2009). In all participates Perugorría, equal to Guantanamera, that Tabío and Alea will write and direct after the exit of Fresa y Chocolate and that the delirious journey of a corpse through the island to receive santa sepultura. “Imagine that now there are two stars coming trembling with something trembling,” the actor cried as well as the union’s friends.