ONE WAY or Another, by the black Cuban woman director Sara Gomez — who died tragically from asthma as the film was nearing completion - is a revolutionary love story. refuses isolate the love between two people the world they live in, in the way that the love stories of bourgeois cinema tend to do.
sees personality something mysterious undecipherable, but as the expres background, cultural Innertance and personal nowever. willloul suggesting that people can be reduced to abstract causes: people remain individuals each unique in his or her own way, be valued as dividuals. Otherwise socialism coent make scuse The central protagonists are a worker at a bus factory, primary Yolanda. The film is also about the problems arise for each of nem i these places UI WOrk particular workers' assembly in Mario's factory is called upon to deal with the case of his New magazine for gays?
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off work for a few days. Humberto tells the assembly he his dying mother, but Mario knows that he went off to get laid.
The film is as much about the relationship between Mario and his buddy as about the love relationship. between Mario and Yolanda.
Humberto is both Havana which was one of the first new neighbourhoods bullt by the Revolution to replace slums. The film is about the strug gle among the previously marginal classes overcome the habits, beliefs and values of the customs. old underdeveloped society, which in the context of the new socialist and ethic represents a variety of anusocial traits. class Machismo zinese Humberto's behaviour is that of an individualist with no sense of responsibility towards his workers. This provokes a solit with Mario it is a painful process, because he is bound to Humberto Mario, ov the codes or cose mae lovaily. "buddyism'. This turns out to conflict just as much core which demand a wider sense of collective and social responsibility.
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Yolanda comes from within the Revolution sent to the district from beyond. In spite of her own difficulties in coming to terms with inis sector alter society, she represents a challenge district to Mario's macho same macnismo wmen nes al tile root of his buddyism with Humberthe old So this is also a kind of feminist film but in a very special sense: it sees mocksmo among others ment and does not set up a straight opposition betweel which tagonistic solution.
There is a great deal to be learnt from this film about Also abóut political cinema: the AFTER Sue hibition last year at Centre with the new 181 in Hammersmith, press revolution. comments 'revolting, appalling, totally the unsuitable for children' 'fantastic' and 'beautifully made — a real turn-on'.
The deputy Mayor of Hammersmith, Ettie said: 'I found it extremely ofthe thing is in bad taste. I think a number of women will be offended and men even if they think I am a silly narrow-minded old bat.' provoked by Sue Brown's portrayal of a woman's place in a male-oriented society.
work is a description of how I OneS Vote or ure leacher. its own sake It is an cubans call habits the concept underdevelop- inal is precisely alic requires an andiscussion, Cinema the revolutionary process. Street, 8508/9.
Women in a male world Brown's ex- have felt, mother and housewife ranged to Crawford, whole flaming planners and the like embarassed, about.' This critical appraisal was the Pentonville of herself: 'My Amwell Street, Tel 01-837 9826. film mixes fiction and documentary, fictional characters and real , but it never becomes obscure dulges in aesthetic experiment for example of what the cinema.
This is a political and dialectical indicates the technical and artistic perfection are not political aims in themselves and that the political film is incomplete without the audience taking it ur and inserting it into political strug the way this film should be used. It isn't going to reach you at your local Odeon, but you can book i lot showig a meetings where it can be followed The Other 12/13 Little Newport London WCH 7JJ 01-734 being a woman, through the various phases of my life as a child, growing girl, * accent that mv sculpture will not come across to all sections of the public, but equally I believe that some people • especially those who have given birth to children and who share my dislike of the way women are treated by the medical profession, health visitors, family Fi— will sympathise with what my art is Her new exhibition is called Soft Sculpture and can be seen from 1-24 May, 1lam-6pm at Gallery, London ECI.
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