1 | 21/03/2021 – 18:12 (GMT-4)
Lilo Vilaplana, the director of Planted, A film that reconstructs the memory of Cuban political exile after 1959, reacted on social media in the face of criticism from the pro-government newspaper Granma he dedicated to the film in the last days.
“Castroism dedicated a tremendous page to us! I’m going to frame and save it. It’s a huge recognition for me that bothers them PLANTED,” Vilaplana wrote on Facebook.
“They used Granma and Mr. Betancourt (his most prominent cinematic lamebotas) to attack the film,” the director said of the author of the pro-government text, film critic and regime supporter Rolando Pérez Bentancourt.
The latter described the film as “subversive counter-revolutionary propaganda material” and called historic Cuban political prisoners “criminals”, many of whom were Castro’s comrades-in-arms in the Sierra Maestra and were charged without further charge. those to oppose the new regime.
However, Vilaplana assured that the article could not deny either “the tortures, or the murders, or the violation of human rights” committed by the island’s government.
The director of Planted he also accused the Cuban state of warning his friends from the academy in the US. UU. for “with a call from Havana” to try to “block the movie.”
“Unable to” achieve this, Vilaplana added, “they asked for voices that will disqualify the film to pave the way for the discredit they usually use, they use these accomplices who, without arguments and with many disqualifications, began the attack, ”he denounced.
However, the director has assured that the Cuban government had stumbled upon the “enormous support, interest, emotion and acceptance of Plantats”, which he denied to the “Castroists and their accomplices”.
Since the premiere of Planted, Several Cuban public figures have stressed the importance of the film, as is the case of the musician Alexander Delgado of Gent de Zona, or the Cuban Grandmaster of Chess Lázaro Bruzón Batista, who was shocked by the raw history of violence and repression that reconstructs the film.
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