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Selected among the ten best Iberoamerican films, the full-length movie Lucía gathers three love stories. The first one recreates the XIX century romanticism and the experience of a woman surrounded by war and betrayal; the second one, soaked with the 30th decade's enchant, features a girl who is wrestling between passion and death in a middle of a convulse political situation; in the last one, the 60s presents a young rural girl, upholding her rights in front of a jealous husband. Two memorable stories and an anthological comedy.
This important Cuban film was made on 1968 by Humberto Solás, who was also in charge of the script together with Julio G. Espinosa and Nelson Rodríguez. The Leo Brouwer`s music and the brilliant performances of Raquel Revuelta, Eslinda Núñez, Adela Legrá, Eduardo Moré, Ramón Brito and Adolfo Llauradó in the leading roles, transformed it in a milestone piece of Cuban cinematography.
To embellish its presentations, the outstanding Cuban painter and designer Raúl Martínez, recreated the image of Lucía in a poster of exquisite quality. This Camagüey-born creator, who focused on abstraction around the 50s, started the figurative style after 1963, progressively removing the distictive features from his previous work, to totally achieve new pictures based on popular paintings.
He elaborates a new style from the union of his pictorial and graphic work: from the first picture (1965) until the cover of Cuba Magazine (1969), the Martí`s Heads give evidence of the artist`s development.
His talent is also present in his designs on magazines and books, through his labor at the Cuban Institute of Book, creating its logo. He was hailed also for his posters for movies, from which the Cuban film Lucia is a good example of high artistic quality, fitness to the theme and good use of the poster`s technical possibilities as a wide communicative channel.
Another vision of Lucía was made by the young artist Rubén A. Iglesias (1970) in his poster devoted to this film. Graduated from San Alejandro Arts School, Iglesias has been working for diverse publishing houses, making also designs for magazines and other national and international media. His artwork has been exhibited at solo and group exhibitions in Cuba and abroad. He is member of Hermanos Saíz Association (AHS) and Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (UNEAC).
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