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‘Kubrick by Kubrick’ Producer Temps Noir Boards Buzzy Malaga Title ‘Passengers for the Last Trip’ (EXCLUSIVE)
‘Marta's film tells the exact situation in which Cuba seems to find itself,’ says Temps Noir’s Tancrède Ramonet.
Also written by Borras, the social drama delivers a probing take on the huge economic pressures exerted on Latin America’s basic unit, the family, and the radical resorts forced upon a younger generation of Cubans now not looking to deepen its Revolution but merely survive. In it, Laura, a destitute young single mother who has come to Havana a couple of years before – her part time job hardly pays the rent – gets to know an elderly neighbour, who has spent her life supporting Castro’s revolution but now is old and alone, suffering Alzheimer’s dementia. He added: “I feel a strong necessity to talk about family, emigration, love, maternity, solitude, pain and the lifestyle of young generations who are battling to stay afloat, trying to forge a better future than their present, searching for freedom and independence.
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