SAN LUIS POTOSÍ, Mexico.- The Cuban actress Mirtha Ibarra78 years old, told the media Infobae that she feels “fulfilled” and “very happy” for Anonymous neurotica film in which she participates not only as an actress but also as a screenwriter.
In the film, directed by Jorge Perugorría, she stars as a women who aspires to be a film performer and is a victim of sexist violence.
Currently filming has just finished after five weeks that qualified Infobae as “very intense.” In Mexico, post-production work will take place and the premiere is planned for 2025.
The script is based on a play written by her. In Anonymous neurotic she plays “a movie usher who dreams of being an actress and who will always see herself reflected in all the movies she sees.” “It’s called Iluminada because it illuminates the path for people in the cinema,” although “hers is quite dark,” he explained to the outlet.
From the character, the threads of the main themes developed in the play are woven, namely, violence against women and the rescue of cinema as a theater.
“My character’s relationship with her husband has been very interesting, which is one of fear and submission. Although there is no physical violence, it frustrates her life, it overwhelms her because there are different ways to leave women completely helpless,” she emphasized.
In past months, in a tribute to Tomás Gutiérrez Alea celebrated regarding the 65th anniversary of the ICAIC, Mirtha Ibarrawidow of the filmmaker, did not stop clarifying that Titón’s cinema was a kind of constructive criticism of the Revolution, “perfectible,” as the dictator liked to say. Fidel Castro every time his experiment hit rock bottom.
In summarizing the event, Perugorría stated that the ICAIC was an institution of “tolerance and respect for difference.” Directors as important as Humberto Solas and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea suffered censorship and continued making films, he noted.
Ibarra assured that her husband was an “honest revolutionary,” who suffered in silence so as not to harm the Revolution.
