HOLA, CUBANOS

Varda, like other French filmmakers 'gauchistes', wanted to go to Cuba shortly after the triumph of the Revolution to see and film what was happening there. Thus, "Salut les Cubains" animates fifteen hundred of more than four thousand snapshots that the director took during her vacations in Cuba. By editing, the filmmaker gets the people portrayed to sing and dance, in what she calls "socialism and cha cha cha".