Guantanamera

Acclaimed Cuban director Tomas Gutierrez Alea's swan song -- completed by his STRAWBERRY AND CHOCOLATE codirector Juan Carlos Tabio -- is distinctly reminiscent of his earlier DEATH OF A BUREAUCRAT, particularly in its satirical jabs at the failures and foibles of the Cuban Revolution. Disgraced bureaucrat Adolfo (Carlos Cruz) hopes to regain favor with an elaborate but laughably ineffectual scheme to conserve gasoline by setting up an intricate tag-team system for funeral transportation. By fanciful coincidence, his wife Georgina's (Mirtha Ibarra) elderly aunt Yoyita (Conchita Brando) dies suddenly, following a reunion with her long-lost lover (Raul Eguren). The m...