Feature film
Lejanía
Jesús Díaz · 1985
Synopsis
Ten years after leaving for Miami and leaving her son Reinaldo behind in Cuba, a mother returns to Havana for a few days and stays in the apartment that used to be theirs. Reinaldo has become a worker and has made a life without her; their reunion, in this home they hardly leave, revives what the separation has left between them, and what now divides those who left from those who stayed.
Context
The film extends a documentary of 1978, 55 hermanos, in which the director followed the Antonio Maceo brigade, fifty-five young people raised in Miami by families who had left the island, on their first return to Cuba in 1977. Jesús Díaz draws from it here a fiction which he writes himself and which he sets almost entirely in an apartment, with Verónica Lynn, Jorge Trinchet, Isabel Santos and Beatriz Valdés. The title, which means distance, names the gap that exile has put between the members of one family.
Who it is for
Ninety minutes, in Spanish. It helps to know that the first young exiles to return on a visit to the island did so in 1977.
Prizes and reception
Available with English subtitles in the Latin American cinema collection held by the University of North Carolina, under its Spanish title.
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