Six years since the first idea. Two years with the script in hand. a year looking for funding to six teams all over the world, all directed from the global study of the complex Javier Mariscal in Barcelona in Palo Alto.
The result is magic hour and a half of drawing and music.
A complex project linking two different personalities. Trueba, a type Cartesian, rational, logical and meticulous to exhaustion, compared with Javier Mariscal, (see "heroes header") ethereal, nebulous, unpredictable and seemingly chaotic.
After a previous documentary work, Marshall gave vent to his personal and non-colored universe: the old bars of Havana, the New York of the 40 with its neon signs, music clubs, Tropicana cabaret, the revolution ... everything is there.
With original music by Bebo Valdes, the tape also swarming sounds of Charlie Parker, Budd Powell, Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie. All your music is a clear tribute to those Cuban musicians of the 40 and 50. Bebo's character, his life and his compositions are the seeds of this exciting project.
Mariscal, has been in Chico and Rita a compendium of teaching a controversial artistic creator, but deeply loved by his kindred that leaves no one indifferent. A Story of Love, which is the skin of Cuba at the time, with their orchestras, its bars, cars, buildings. A visually powerful film with a heady mix of a revolutionary graphics and ultra-realistic nostalgia to the beat of great music.
The film is short, kind and passionate at the same time. Nostalgic for a time and pace of some places that the pen Mariscal, grandly recreates casual.
Two interesting details: a cameo of both of no more than 2 seconds reminds us of the genius of suspense and the fact that the entire film was shot prior to drawing with flesh and blood actors with to obtain better bounds of realism.
Source: Supplement of El Pais.
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