The Sugar Curtain(El telón de azúcar)

France · 2005
1h 30m
Director Camila Guzmán Urzúa
Starring
Genre

A portrayal of the singular experience shared by people of her generation -- those living Cuba's utopian dream during the golden era of the revolution. It is also a lament for the end of that dream, which began to fizzle after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

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Village Voice by

Both love story and memory of underdevelopment, The Sugar Curtain illuminates, with great sobriety and reverence, the paradox of a nation as steeped in tradition as it is in hypocrisy.

Variety by Deborah Young

Those on both sides of the great Cuba divide should find food for thought in these sober, realistic reflections.

The New York Times by Jeannette Catsoulis

A pensive valentine to literacy programs and childhood idealism left in the ashes of broken families and an economically bifurcated society.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Urzua's unsentimental story of shattered idealism is specific to Cuba, but anyone whose path to adulthood was paved with disillusionment, -- whether they were betrayed by faith, family or institutions – will understand her melancholy nostalgia.