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La Bonita
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La Bonita

La Bonita

María del Mar Rosario
Cuba, Puerto Rico
2018
18 min
Spotlight on Cuba
Tickets & Times
Synopsis

Filmmaker Maria del Mar Rosario, originally from Puerto Rico, made this short documentary as a student at the EICTV (International Film and Television School) in Havana, examining the social pressure on women to be “beautiful” in the harsh artificial light of painful aesthetic procedures.

As the opening credits appear, we hear the voices of women asserting that if you want to find a man—and keep him—you have only one choice. With the objective gaze of an anthropologist, Rosario then gives an unvarnished and challenging view of the treatment of the female body, with the application of acrylic nails and permanent make-up, and the removal of pubic hair using wax.

With few words, the film raises the question of whether all this is really necessary. But at no point does La Bonita become didactic; subtle narrative interventions make it not only “body horror” but also “body humor”.

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Tickets & Times
Sun, november 17
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 1
11:15 – 12:52
Pathé City 3
Film fully subtitled in English

Thu, november 21
Part of Spotlight on Cuba: EICTV 1
12:45 – 14:37
Pathé City 4
Film fully subtitled in English
Credits
18 min
color
DCP
Spoken languages: Spanish
Director
    María del Mar Rosario
    María del Mar Rosario
Production
    Julio Raul Vega Garcés for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Julio Raul Vega Garcés for Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
Cinematography
    Mathilde Le Masson
    Mathilde Le Masson
Editing
    Elena Cedeño Gil
    Elena Cedeño Gil
Sound
    Maria Rojas Arias,
    Nathan Armstrong,
    Ángel Alonso Sarmiento
    Maria Rojas Arias,
    Nathan Armstrong,
    Ángel Alonso Sarmiento
Sound Design
    Ángel Alonso Sarmiento
    Ángel Alonso Sarmiento
Screenplay
    María del Mar Rosario
    María del Mar Rosario
Screening copy
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV
    Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión - EICTV

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