Santa & Andrés

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Santa & Andrés

Released Nov 10, 2017

1h 45m

Drama

LGBTQ+

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In 1983 Cuba, a gay writer who is non-compliant with the government is blacklisted, and a local peasant woman working on a state farm is assigned to watch him. As she keeps a close watch on the man, they both realize they have a lot in common.

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Jay Weissberg

Variety

Amores and Martínez convey a great deal via silence, their wounded physicality expressing far more than words.

Nov 14, 2017

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Monica Castillo

New York Times

"Santa & Andrés" begins as a film about separation and pain, but becomes a movie about reconciliation and healing.

Nov 9, 2017

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Serena Donadoni

Village Voice

With quiet precision, Lechuga charts Andrés's resilience and Santa's awakening, using a naturalistic visual style and sparse dialogue that reveals how these characters instinctively read between the lines.

Nov 7, 2017

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Alistair Ryder

Gay Essential

No matter your political affiliation, it's hard not to like these two very complicated characters, and admire looking through the window in to their conflicted society.

Rated: 3.5/5

Oct 10, 2019

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David Noh

Film Journal International

Low-key treatment of a relationship between a gay man and a Communist woman will reward the patient.

Nov 15, 2017

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Sebastian Zavala Kahn

Me gusta el cine

An interesting but disappointingly irregular study of two people during the Cuban revolution in the 1980s. [Full review in Spanish]

Rated: 2.5/4

Aug 16, 2017

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Synopsis

In 1983 Cuba, a gay writer who is non-compliant with the government is blacklisted, and a local peasant woman working on a state farm is assigned to watch him. As she keeps a close watch on the man, they both realize they have a lot in common.

Director: Carlos Lechuga
Producer: Claudia Calviño, Carlos Lechuga
Screenwriter: Carlos Lechuga, Eliseo Altunaga
Distributor: Breaking Glass Pictures
Genre: Drama, LGBTQ+
Original Language: Spanish
Release Date (Theaters): Nov 10, 2017, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 14, 2017
Runtime: 1h 45m

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