The Vancouver International Film Festival presents:
Playing Lecuona
(Spain/Cuba, 2015; 110min)
Dir. Juan Manuel Villar Betancort, Pavel Giroud
Thursday September 29, 2016, 8pm, Vancity Theatre
Wednesday October 5, 2016, 4pm, SFU-GCA
Sunday October 9, 2016, SFU-GCA
Thursday, October 20, 2016, 2pm, Vancity Theatre
Juan Manuel Villar Betancort and Pavel Giroud’s doc will thrill casual fans of Cuban music, while aficionados will be in seventh heaven. That’s because this is one of those comparatively rare films that isn’t content to be just a performance piece, but which holds the music up to the light and explores each silvery note. Three contemporary Cuban piano stars—Chucho Valdés, Michel Camilo and Gonzalo Rubalcaba—take turns paying homage to Ernesto Lecuona, the acknowledged inventor of the Cuban sound.