imperfection
should professionalism and perfection even be an ideal when making a film? juan garcía espinosa attacked this notion years ago on the grounds that a technically or artistically perfect film asks nothing of its audience. all it wants is to be admired and applauded. put another way, dazzling images shield a film’s content, protecting it from potential criticism. the new cuban cinema, he suggested, should not be afraid of imperfection because the world itself is flawed and one of the purposes of cinema is to expose its shortcomings. one antonym of perfection is authenticity…