Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story (movie)
Ava & Gabriel - Un historia di amor- User score: 5.6
- Production country: France, Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles
- Producer: Felix de Rooy
- Production companies: Cosmic Illusion Productions
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 11/9/1990
- Run time: 100 min.
Movie description
Set in Curacao in the 1940s, Ava & Gabriel: A Love Story tells of the painter Gabriel Goedbloed, who arrives from Holland to paint a mural of the Virgin Mary in a local church. Gabriel is black, originally from Surinam. The colonial Antillian society proves less than tolerant towards him, especially after he chooses as his model a young Black teacher, Ava
