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  • 2002
  • Empire Pictures Inc.
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2002
  • Empire Pictures Inc.
  • 1 h 33 m

Summary Billed as "a musical road movie," Cuba Feliz follows the wanderings of charismatic, 76-year-old Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), as he travels throughout Cuba, making music in the homes of friends, in bars and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells. (Film Forum)

Directed By: Karim Dridi

Written By: Pascal Letellier, Karim Dridi

  • 2002
  • Empire Pictures Inc.
  • 1 h 33 m
  • 2002
  • Empire Pictures Inc.
  • 1 h 33 m

Cuba feliz

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Summary Billed as "a musical road movie," Cuba Feliz follows the wanderings of charismatic, 76-year-old Miguel Del Morales, known as El Gallo (The Rooster), as he travels throughout Cuba, making music in the homes of friends, in bars and on street corners, in courtyards and stairwells. (Film Forum)

Directed By: Karim Dridi

Written By: Pascal Letellier, Karim Dridi

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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 10 Critic Reviews
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70% Positive
7 Reviews
30% Mixed
3 Reviews
0% Negative
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80
The film is music from beginning to end, and nearly every note of it is magical.
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70
In painting an unabashedly romantic picture of a nation whose songs spring directly from the lives of the people, the movie exalts the Marxian dream of honest working folk, with little to show for their labor, living harmoniously, joined in song.
By Stephen Holden FULL REVIEW
70
The spontaneity of the music itself is unquestionable and captivating. Like Saudade Do Futuro, Cuba Feliz is somewhat unsatisfying, leaving too many questions unanswered in its stream-of-consciousness wanderings. But it also preserves ephemeral art that might otherwise be lost.
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63
Grittily beautiful film that looks, sounds, and feels more like an extended, open-ended poem than a traditionally structured story.
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63
Every trip requires patience, and this one brings plenty of rewards, in the ecstatic sounds of a country most of us haven't been able to visit firsthand.
By Elizabeth Weitzman FULL REVIEW
50
Frustratingly, Dridi tells us nothing about El Gallo other than what emerges through his music.
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Not quite a documentary, it's more like a musical travelogue that doesn't quite sustain feature length and seems ideally suited to a shorter TV version for music webs.
By David Rooney FULL REVIEW

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Production Company ADR Productions, Canal+, Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (CNC), El Movimento Nacional de Video de Cuba, Le Studio Canal+
Release Date Jun 12, 2002
Duration 1 h 33 m
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Website http://www.cubafeliz-lefilm.com/
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Awards

Cannes Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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