Chico and Rita

Chico and Rita

Chico and Rita is a film made in Spain by Fernando Truebal and Javier Mariscal. This film was based on a love story between two musicians (a singer and a piano player). The animated movie was set in many different locations including Havana, Cuba, New York City, Las Vegas and Paris. The movie is mostly about Chico chasing Rita. The movie starts off in Havana, where on of the main characters, Chico, is at a club/bar scene and he is flirting around with girls until Rita comes on stage and starts performing. Her singing was so beautiful that it caught Chico’s full attention. Chico fell in love with Rita and decided to enamor her.

They start off hopelessly in love. Chico takes Rita to his room and makes passionate love to her. It was a perfect night until morning bloomed. One of Chico’s girlfriend's barges into his room only to find Chico and Rita naked together. Rita and this chick go at it for some time, fighting over Chico until Rita gets exhausted and decides that she can have Chico because all of the fighting is not worth it. Rita then leaves Chico and decides that she hates him and wants nothing to do with him.

After some time somehow Chico and Rita end up in the same music band together - Chico as an accomplished pianist and Rita as a singer. They begin to play all over Havana until Rita is noticed by a NYC producer. He tells Rita that he can make her a big star. Rita refuses to go without Chico, however when Rita approached Chico about the great opportunity, Chico was too drunk and stubborn to acknowledge that Rita just did not want to part his side. Chico completely refused to go to NYC. After some careful thinking Rita decided she was going to have to leave Chico behind and move to the city and become a big star.

Chico then realized he made a huge mistake and decided to pursue Rita by going to NYC and finding her. He followed her everywhere she went.

Eventually Rita and Chico part separate ways for a long time until they are very old and they find each other again.

I found this animated film to be really engaging and intriguing. I really enjoyed it from beginning to end and I even saw it again at home on my own time on Netflix. I found it weird that the producers are from Spain but the movie is set in Cuba with Cuban protagonists. They executed the film strongly. I would definitely recommend this film to many other people who appreciate filmmaking.