Feature film
Adorable Lies
Adorables mentiras
Gerardo Chijona · 1992
Synopsis
Jorge Luis, a married, unemployed young man from Havana, dreams of writing and directing films. He meets Sissy at a film premiere and, to impress her, passes himself off as a director looking for a novice actress. Sissy, who has long been waiting to be discovered, joins in with a plan of her own, and each shows the other only the character he or she has invented.
Context
The screenplay, signed by the director and by Senel Paz, the author of the story from which Fresa y chocolate would come, makes a black comedy out of two people who invent an image for themselves to escape a grey reality. Co-produced with Spanish television, the film brings together Isabel Santos as Sissy, Luis Alberto García as Jorge Luis, Mirta Ibarra and Thais Valdés, with cinematography by Julio Valdés and music by Edesio Alejandro. It is Silvia Planas's last film and Gerardo Chijona's first fiction feature.
Who it is for
One hundred and eight minutes, in Spanish. A Havana comedy of manners, in which ordinary lying stands in for a plot.
Prizes and reception
World premiere at Sundance in 1992, finalist for the Caméra d'or at Cannes, Colón de Oro at Huelva; submitted by Cuba for the Oscar for foreign film.
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