在这部马达加斯加剧情片中,La joven Laurita deja la escuela porque quiere viajar a
Madagascar,un país africano que se le convierte en un
refugio imaginario contra la realidad. Al mismo tiempo
Laura, su madre, está desesperada y desconcertada
ante el comportamiento de su hija.
The 50-minute "Madagascar" has the resonance and eloquence of the best poetry, as it deftly turns an adolescent's search for identity into a metaphor for post-revolutionary Cuba. Laura is a professor at a shabby, stultifying college. Her daughter, Laurita, stops going to school, wishes to move to Madagascar and quickly races through several phases. One day, she looks like a heavy-metal fan, another like a bohemian who weeps at poetry and art. Slowly, she crosses the line from ordinary adolescent confusion to intense neurosis and beyond, finally becoming so obsessed with religion and good works that she brings 10 homeless children into the cramped house she shares with her mother and grandmother.
