{"id":1679,"date":"2016-12-07T23:34:44","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T23:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=1679"},"modified":"2017-07-19T19:17:24","modified_gmt":"2017-07-19T19:17:24","slug":"viva-ireland-cubathursday-2-march-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2016\/12\/viva-ireland-cubathursday-2-march-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"VIVA [IRELAND, CUBA],THURSDAY 2 MARCH, 8PM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/S097UTL057I\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paddy Breathnach\u2019s compassionate drama about a Cuban gay man\u2019s battle of wills with his father is the first Irish film shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Oscar.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winner &#8211; Best Irish Film, Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2016<\/p>\n<p><strong>Viva<\/strong> stars H\u00e9ctor Medina as Jesus, a shy young hairdresser working at a Havana nightclub that showcases drag performers, who dreams of being a performer himself. Encouraged by his mentor, Mama (Luis Alberto Garc\u00eda), Jesus finally gets his chance to take the stage. But when his estranged father Angel (Jorge Perugorr\u00eda) abruptly reenters his life, his world is quickly turned upside down. As father and son clash over their opposing expectations of each other, <strong>Viva<\/strong> becomes a love story as the men struggle to understand one another and reconcile as a family.<\/p>\n<p>Featuring boisterous and often heart-breaking drag performance, Paddy Breathnach\u2019s Oscar-shortlisted crowd-pleaser is a tender and compassionate tale of finding one\u2019s true voice.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Less boy-meets-boy than boy-meets-himself, Paddy Breathnach\u2019s drama &#8211; the first Irish film to be shortlisted for best foreign-language Oscar &#8211; is a triumph.&#8221;<\/em> \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605\u00a0&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irishtimes.com\/culture\/film\/viva-review-life-lessons-for-a-havana-drag-queen-1.2760298\">The Irish Times<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;A startlingly beautiful movie set in present-day Havana.&#8221;<\/em> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/viva-review-family-values-and-dazzling-drag-1461870044\">Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.viva-movie.com\/\">Click here for official website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ireland, Cuba, 2015 | Language: Spanish | 100 minutes | Cert: 15A<\/p>\n<p>Director: Paddy Breathnach<\/p>\n<p>Cast:\u00a0<em>H\u00e9ctor Medina, Jorge Perugorr\u00eda, Luis Alberto Garc\u00eda<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddy Breathnach\u2019s compassionate drama about a Cuban gay man\u2019s battle of wills with his father is the first Irish film shortlisted for Best Foreign Language Oscar.\u00a0 Winner &#8211; Best Irish&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1679"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1718,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1679\/revisions\/1718"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}