Cyrano Fernández

Cyrano Fernández is the story of a tough and romantic vigliante who fights for justice in Latin America’s largest favela. Cyrano is deeply in love with the beautiful dance teacher Roxana, and lets out all his love on paper in the form of tear-jerking lyrics for a local rap artist. One day, the young Christian Caracas arrives, having fled New York after revenging his brother’s death. Roxana soon falls for his charm. But how can Christian manage to tell her that he loves her back? And what kind of future will the lovers have in a city where 150 people are murdered every day? This classic drama’s dark and melodramatic undercurrent is cultivated and used for all that it is worth. It ends as a modern tragedy where money and power are at stake, and where Cyrano and his gang the Tupanmaros gather to fight violence and corruption. The camera alternates between fast movements in the back streets of the favela, and gliding panoramas of the enormous shantytowns. Similarly, the story of Cyrano shifts between the fate of individuals and this fate’s potential meaning for the collective. Idealism may not be dead, and there may still be hope in the bloodstained favela. tlå