Regresso a Ithaca/ Return to Ithaca with Leonardo Padura (10.11.17) | Latin American Studies

Regresso a Ithaca/ Return to Ithaca with Leonardo Padura (10.11.17)

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A group of middle-aged Cuban friends gather one night on a terrace in Havana to welcome back old compadre Amadeo – once an up-and-coming writer who fled the country and who is now supposedly on a short visit from Spain – to reconnect and swap stories of times gone by. Noted French filmmaker, Laurent Cantet (The Class), collaborating with critically revered Cuban novelist Leonardo Padura, has produced a mesmerising and emotionally affecting comedy drama. Reminiscent of both Lawrence Kasdan’s The Big Chill and perhaps more pertinently John Sayles’ The Return of the Secacus Seven, Cantet’s film is a bravura depiction of a reunion that moves from recollection to recrimination, revelation to reconciliation. Laced with a sharp political subtext that underpins the characters’ fond and bitter memories, Return to Ithaca is a powerful cinematic insight into Cuba’s past and present.

The screening will be followed by a q + a with Leonardo Padura.

Please join us on October 11 at 7 PM at the BU School of Theology, 745 Commonwealth Avenue, Room B19.

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