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In 1511, indigenous people in Puerto Rico seduced and murdered a representative of colonial power.
Some 300 years later, a further chapter of colonial history: In 1803, by order of the Spanish Crown,
a doctor named Francisco Javier de Balmis travelled to Puerto Rico with a number of orphans. They
were carriers of the live vaccine with which Balmis executed one of the first mass immunisations
against smallpox. A glance to the present day: In 2014, Puerto Rico produced an enormous amount
of pharmaceuticals with subsidies from the USA. By interweaving strands of colonial and postcolonial
history, the filmmakers of La Isla está Encantada con Ustedes have created a lyrical work that
mirrors and completes the dynamics of power and lust. A modern roundelay, that restages the past
in the present. Lead by a gaze of sexual subtext, this is a comedy in which reality is subordinate to
strategies of power –while revealing the closely intertwined nature of health and economics, in the
past and present.
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- Production company
- Unity
- Original title
- La Isla está Encantada con Ustedes