Synopsis
Chico & Rita (2010) is a Spanish-British animated feature you can watch online on iFILM — a jazz love story directed by Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba, set in late-1940s Havana.
Chico plays piano with the kind of conviction that tends to get people into trouble. Rita has a voice that clears a room in the best possible way. They meet, they fall, they separate — Havana, New York, Hollywood, Paris — and spend the next several decades orbiting each other across the mid-century jazz world. The film is hand-drawn, and its soundtrack pulls from actual recordings of Cuban musicians of the period rather than orchestral simulation.
Chico & Rita claimed Spain's Goya Award for Best Animated Film and landed on the Oscar shortlist — rare company for a hand-drawn adult feature made outside the Hollywood studio system. Stream it online on iFILM.
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