Chico & Rita

Chico & Rita is such a beautiful film to look at that you could turn the volume off completely and still have a wonderful time. You’d easily be able to follow the story of two musicians whose passion for music is only eclipsed by their passion for each other, but if you did that, you’d miss out on some incredible music, as well as some seriously smoldering vocal performances from Eman Xor Oña as Chico and Limara Meneses as Rita. Chico & Rita starts out with scenes of an elderly Chico spending his days shining shoes and his nights sipping rum in his tiny apartment as he picks through a cigar box of memories. Hearing a song on an oldies station on the radio – a song he recorded many, many years ago -- Chico starts to remember the time of his youth when he was a talented but unknown jazz pianist in Havana. It was also the time when he first met the love of his life, Rita. Giving too much of the plot away would spoil the enjoyment of watching it unfold so beautifully on the screen. Suffice it to say that although it is obvious from the minute their eyes first meet that Chico and Rita are made for each other, the paths they take are so divergent that you never really know what will happen to them next – as individuals or as a couple – or if they will find each other by the end of the film.