Film: Chico and Rita

Venue: The Bike Shed Theatre
Date: 19th February, 5pm–6.30pm

To celebrate the end of the 2012 festival we will be screening Chico and Rita at the Bike Shed Theatre, Exeter.

Cuba 1948. Chico is a young piano player with big dreams. Rita is a beautiful singer with an extraordinary voice. Music and romantic desire unites them but, their journey in thetradition of the Latin ballad, the bolero, brings heartache and torment.

Peter Bradshaw,The Guardiancalled it "Sexy, sunny and sweet-natured". This lovelyanimationby film-maker Fernando Trueba and artist and designer Javier Mariscal, is a 1940s love story set in the nightclubs of Havana and New York. Rita, voiced by Limara Meneses, is a beautiful Cuban singer who has to scrape a living. Chico (Eman Xor Oña) is a talented, underemployed pianist thunderstruck with love for Rita when she meanders on stage for a solo. The great names of both Cuban and American jazz are invoked. Chico and Rita's tragicomic love story meshes very pleasingly with thismusicalbackdrop.

Mark Kermode chose this as one of his top ten films for 2010. See Trailer here

5.00pm - 6.30pm

The Bike Shed Theatre

£6/5

Chico and Rita is also being screened as part of the Awards Latin-themed Party on Saturday

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