Javier is an actor with an affinity for writing. When he begins his love story with Luisita, he does not know where the truth begins and ends. Fifteen years later he has converted his story into literature that relates his tragic love story in a creative way.
Direction
Pérez weaves timelines like a drunk spider.
Cinematography
Havana glows with nostalgic unreality.
Acting
Ana de Armas before Hollywood — already magnetic.
Director
Fernando Pérez
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Based on Cuban writer Miguel Barnet's novel, itself a fictionalized biography — layers upon layers.
Part of 'cine cubano' movement: state-funded, artistically ambitious, criminally underseen outside festivals.
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