John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Cuba’s Lola Amores, star of fest hits “Wild Woman,” “Miki Maniaco” and “Santa & Andrés,” will topline “Her Lightness,” the feature debut of compatriot Rosa María Rodríguez Pupo who “opens up an historical gap in the midst of a cinematography made mostly by me in Cuba,” producers Martha Orozco and Cristina Gallego told Variety.
Also produced by Armando Capó, Rodríguez’s partner in life and at Cuba’s GatoRosafilms, “Her Lightness” (“La Levedad de Ella”) weighs in at Switzerland’s Locarno Festival, Europe’s biggest mid-summer film event, as one of the highest-profile entries in Open Doors, a carefully curated showcase of projects and recent pics from smaller countries around the world, for the last three years from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Written by Rodríguez, the film charts a radical act for a woman in many people’s eyes: Breaking the common assumed concept that woman are in the world to help others.
In “Her Lightness,” Nora’s journey is one of ever greater introspection. 42, she lies, saying she’s pregnant in order to abandon her cancer treatment, then distances herself from her husband. “To make her journey to freedom she must let go of the ties that make her a mirror woman, to be able to float and be light as she had always wanted.
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