La Pared de las Palabras

Luis' mother will stop at nothing for her severely disabled son. With everyday existence in Cuba a challenge in itself, she attempts to ease her psychiatry-bound son's suffering with extra food. It was like this from the very beginning, and the younger, “healthy” son always felt neglected. Luis was both mentally and physically disabled from birth and thus unable to communicate with those around him, neither in word nor gesture.

Fernando Pérez's LA PARED DE LAS PALABRAS film on pain and the limits thereof is to be understood more as a metaphor for the inability to communicate, as opposed to a reflection on the situation of disabled people on Cuba. The performance of Jorge Perrugoría (who in fact also produced the film) as Luis is truly outstanding. WMH