Its maker is Cuban author, screenwriter and director Juan Carlos Tabio. All those works push the envelope far enough to make audiences outside Cuba wonder how the films get away with satires of conditions and life in Cuba. Here we have a motley group of people thrown together. Not the usual assembly of, say, a dancer, an army man, a crook, a wealthy old fellow, a doctor, and so on. They are all stuck inside a shabby provincial station, as they wait for a long-distance bus.
Some vehicles do show up, but invariably are too full to take on new passengers.
Eventually the frustrated travelers resolve to repair a derelict, broken-down vehicle at the station. No, but one that is charming, warm and easy to take. Sabine Franel's first feature, a creative and set up documentary, deals with a Jewish family in Alsace over more than two centuries. Interesting talk, dialogues, conversations plus documentary footage. Extremely inventive, most interesting.