Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY
‘Visa U.S.A.’
Columbia-Cuba, 1987, 88 minutes, 10:20 p.m. A delightfully romantic and bittersweet coming-of-age story told with grace and compassion by writer Martha Elena Restrepo and director Lisandro Duque. Armando Gutierrez is wonderful as a handsome, naive (and very poor) small-town youth whose unrealistic dreams of emigrating to the United States are further complicated by his love for a pretty girl with conservative middle-class parents. Slight but charming.
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