Madagascar

The 50minute Madagascar has the resonance and eloquence of the best poetry as it deftly turns an adolescents search for identity into a metaphor for socialist Cuba Laura is a professor at a shabby stultifying college Her daughter Laurita stops going to school wishes to move to Madagascar and quickly races through several phases One day she looks like a heavymetal fan another like a bohemian who weeps at poetry and art Slowly she crosses the line from ordinary adolescent confusion to intense neurosis and beyond finally becoming so obsessed with religion and good works that she brings 10 homeless children into the cramped house she shares with her mother and grandmother