Alice In Wondertown

Alice in Wondertown (Alicia en el Pueblo de Maravillas)
Alice in Wondertown - First Run Features

Cuban films, most of which were hard to find in the United States, now are becoming available in amazing quantities. And this is great, because these movies, for better or for worse, talk for the Cubans and their realities. "Alice in Wondertown" (Alicia en el Pueblo de Maravillas) is a superb example of this. It is a quite a smart, entertaining, and mostly funny film, that takes a satirical look at day-to-day life on the island.

The movie was inspired by Lewis Carroll's classic "Alice in Wonderland," and it stars Thais Valdés, who plays Alicia Díaz, a TV reporter that decides to quit her job, and go to work to the town of Maravillas de Noveras, where she will work as an acting teacher. Once she arrives, she realizes that this is no ordinary town, which in part makes sense, because it doesn't belong to any Cuban province, but it is rather located between two of them. Maravillas is always windy and dark, and...

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Excellent portrait & critic of the so famous "special period in peace times" (periodo especial en tiempo de paz)long lived in Cuba under Castro's command. You must carefully look for & realize the magnitude of the critic shown in every part of the film. The recurrent fried eggs meant shortage of beef, the chained cuttlery meant no place to buy them, making them an easy stollen item, etc. The final explosion of sulfur? Try to guess. It's nothing less than the desire of freedom of this people.



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