Subject: Double Standards and Gender Issues
Set in late-1980s Cuba, Adorables Mentiras offers a critical perspective on everyday life through a network of affective, professional, and symbolic relationships marked by simulation and inequality. Through characters positioned at different levels of power—the state official, the precarious intellectual, subordinated women, and marginalized figures—the film exposes how lying, silence, and double morality function as ordinary mechanisms of adaptation within a system shaped by structural machismo, ideological surveillance, and material precariousness. Blending humor, ambiguity, and social observation, the film reveals the gaps between public discourse and lived experience, framing intimate conflicts within a broader structure of social, moral, and cultural hierarchies.
Technical details
Director
Gerardo Chijona
Release year
1991
Running time
108 min
Country
Cuba
Cast
Isabel Santos
Luis Alberto García
Mirtha Ibarra
Thais Valdés
Miguel Gutiérrez
Jorge Cao
Carlos Cruz
Producer
ICAIC/Televisión Española S.A.
Plot
Synopsis
Adorables mentiras portrays the affective and professional relationships of several characters in late-1980s Cuba, exposing double standards, structural machismo, and simulation as everyday strategies of survival. Through deception, silence, and symbolic hierarchies, the film constructs a critical perspective on the gap between social discourse and lived experience.
Analysis
Analysis
https://amaelespanol.com/en/analysis-of-adorables-mentiras/
Discursive analysis (Spanish Version)
https://amaelespanol.com/adorables-mentiras-analisis-discursivo/
Linguistic analysis (Spanish Version)
https://amaelespanol.com/analisis-linguistico-de-adorables-mentiras/
Where to watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=799n8b1SK0c
Tags
machismo, cine cubano, crítica social, doble moral, machismo, análisis sociolingüístico
