Academy Award Submission for Nomination Best Foreign Language Film: Cuba: ‘The Companion’ Interview…
Academy Award Submission for Nomination Best Foreign Language Film: Cuba: ‘The Companion’ Interview with Pavel Giroud1988, Cuba, those infected with HIV or suffering from AIDS were given free room, board and medical treatment at a beautiful facility called “Los Cocos”. Except for the criminals who shared prison cells, the patients shared apartments with other patients. These apartments were so comfortable that some healthy people wanted to have AIDS so they could live in such conditions. But the patients were also treated as prisoners, living under military guard. One day a week they were allowed a day of freedom when they could leave the facility, but they had to have a companion assigned to be with them at all times.
“The Companion”/ “El acompañante” is a very Cuban film because the government’s treatment and control over the spread of AIDS was very particular to Cuba. The story is based on...
“The Companion”/ “El acompañante” is a very Cuban film because the government’s treatment and control over the spread of AIDS was very particular to Cuba. The story is based on...
- 11/5/2016
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Anna Calvi. Photograph by Maisie Cousins.With her blood-red lips, pulled back hair, Flamenco-style blouses and wounded voice, Anna Calvi is the kind of chanteuse that David Lynch would throw a hot, white spotlight on. She’s a modern take on the Jazz age showstopper. Nearly every song on her self-titled debut, out today on Domino, gins up the drama with mini-overtures of Fender Telecaster reverb and jarring, gothic rhythm. It’s hipster-vampire catnip and probably why she’s already a huge concern in style-mad England, where the album was released in January. She’s been compared to Nick Cave and Pj Harvey (Harvey collaborator Rob Ellis co-produced the record) but her soul is clearly rooted in an older vintage. Here, Calvi talks about Piaf, popularity and playing along to Hendrix (at age nine!).
- 3/1/2011
- Vanity Fair
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