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Madagascar (1994)

Madagascar poster
Directed by
Fernando Pérez
Genre
drama film
Country
Cuba
Runtime
54 min
Rating
6.5 of 10 from 8 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A mother and daughter struggle to connect during Cuba's economic crisis. Their lack of communication deepens as they face difficult changes in their lives.

lyricalintrospectivemelancholicslow-burnatmospherictensepoignantquietmeditative

What happens

Madagascar is a 1994 Cuban film that marked Fernando Pérez's change of direction into a more lyrical approach to filmmaking, somehow stripped from the realistic documentary feel of his early work. The film chronicles the relationship and lack of communication between a mother and daughter during the Cuban economic crisis known as the Special Period. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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