CUBAN JAZZ AND LOVELY ANIMATION: "CHICO AND RITA"
 
7PM: Sexy, sunny and sweet-natured, the lovely animated feature CHICO AND RITA (2010, 94 mins, Spanish with English subs) by film-maker Fernando Trueba and artist and designer Javier Mariscal is a 1940s love story with all the brassy passion of a Barry Manilow number, set in the nightclubs of Havana and New York. Rita is a beautiful Cuban singer who has to scrape a living; Chico is a talented, underemployed pianist thunderstruck with love for Rita when she meanders on stage for a solo. Their passionate affair and professional partnership is endangered when a smooth-talking Yankee impresario tells Rita he can take her to showbiz glory in New York/USA...