Every weekend at an illegal drag show in a suburb of Havana, Sebastián, a 17 year old Cuban teenager, transforms into « Mila Caos ». He suffers from his mother’s indifference and dreams that one day she will see him on stage. –Quinzaine des Réalisateurs
Excellent short looking at a young drag artist who wants more than anything to have his mother come see his show and accept him. Paetau seems to have a real feel for the material adapting a good script by Fabian suarez. Yaniel Castillo quite effective in lead role. The mother's solitary watch of her son's performance quite affecting.
Oh mothers and sons. She loves him, but not in the way that he needs. "It interests me more to exist than to dream."
one more star for the photography, there are really good stills and it's well executed, a good cinematographic sense here.
As I’ve mentioned before, movie posters are not much in evidence around the theaters of Cannes. One striking exception though was this
