DVD: Feature: Cecilia

(1982, Cuba, ICAIC, Dir. Humberto Solas, English subtitles)

Adapted from Cirilo Villaverde’s 1882 ‘Cecilia Valdés o La Loma del Ángel’, often called the national novel of Cuba, and directed by Humberto Solás in the style of the ï¬�rst part of his tripartite Lucía (1968), Cecilia is a lavish, turbulent, delirious melodrama set in 1830s Havana amidst agitation for independence from Spain.

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