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Release Date: 10 October, 2000 Retail Price: $29.95 OUR Price: $26.96 You SAVE: $2.99! Cast: |
Guantanamera Reviews
Very accurate black comedy about real life in Castro's Cuba
The movie captures the sad reality of life in Cuba under the aging, obsolete communist dictatorship ( still quite brutal ) that is imposed by the Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. In spite of all these years, the adaptability of the Cuban people comes through in a very funny ( and sad at the same time ) way. The failure of the system, the love stories, the stoppage of time, leave you with a sense of sadness and futility with the preserverance of the human spirit as the only hope for the suffering island.
Shoulda won an Oscar.
This is an excellent movie, full of subtleties and innuendos as well as forthright commentary. As with everything Cuban, you can't escape the political: in fact, it is the political which provides the backdrop in this film. When the man in charge of a funeral home in Havana proposes a new system (with his own political goals in mind) for transporting the deceased to their final resting place, he sees his plan put to the test when his wife's aunt passes away--on the other side of the island. His efforts to accomplish her move back to Havana--and his funny and ultimate failure to do so--provide the social commentary on what happens to the brightest ideas when undertaken under a dogmatic system. It also provides the parallel for the movie's dramatic subplot: his wife's misgivings about her choices in life--marrying her current husband, leaving her teaching job, etc. As we see her marriage fail along the way (along with her husband's plan), and a new love enter her life, we begin to understand the message: sometimes it is individuality--and not the common good of the revolution--that affords the best solution. The script was wonderful, the acting superb, the editing on the mark. At turns funny, sad, academic, farcical, the movie should have gotten an academy award. But alas, it hails from Cuba, and what a pleasant surprise to see such a high quality--and self-critical-- product come out of there.
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