Splendour and weakness of the Latin American Cinema

[Shana A]

Splendour and weakness of the Latin American Cinema

http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2010/01/17/19696/splendour_and_weakness_latin_american_cinema.html

The Latin American film is in good conditions, states Frank Padrón in this interview, despite crisis and other problems. It is expected to enjoy even greater success in the recently started year of 2010.

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The film El último verano de la boyita, by Argentine Julia Solomónoff, is another well done poetic search.

The case of a hermaphrodite in rural Rosario, from the perspective of a girl who spends her holidays there along wit her family, allows the young director embroider a story with respect for differences and a vote for children's sensitivity against a world sometimes closed or distant to adults, particularly in that savage but brutally beautiful world infected by prejudices and ignorance: the countryside.