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A very good historical account of the early days of Castro's revolution. It is narrated as a personal experience. It shows how families were separated by either murdering the oposition or having to flee the country.
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Wow. What a movie. This is defintely to keep you on to the screen until the very end. Good actors such as Dustin Hoofman,Bill Murray. But my favorites such as Steven Bauer and Andres Garcia were spectacular. Makes me want to be living in that Era, just because the costumes and the backdrop was so very real. Beautifual job Mr. Garcia from un Boricua.
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This movie is about a nightclub owner in Cuba shortly before Castro took power and thereafter. It is too long and tries to cover too many things. As a result, it never develops any drama or tension and the characters never develop into people you understand or care about.
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The word "patria" means homeland in Spanish...and sometimes, when we live in the land of freedom, we forget what it means and we forget how to love it. This is the first movie that I have seen that depicts the harshness of Castro's revolution in a way for people to understand. It provides concrete examples of why it's so horrible...everything from taking your property to having to leave your family. It also briefly shows the jails where so many political prisoners were held in the years to follow. It wasn't only those that worked for Batista...in the following years, thousands of men and women were imprisoned for their political views without due process.
If that time in the history of Cuba had to be summed up in 2 hours, Andy Garcia hit the nail on the head as best as it could be done.
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This movie takes place in late 1958 and early 1959. My wife was born in October 1958 but her parents would return to Cuba briefly as her father fought in the Bay of Pigs, was captured, and spent time in Castro's jail. As a result, we would be looking for more historical accuracy out of this movie more than a fictional love story. On this basis, Garcia does an okay job of including some newsreel clips and reenactments in the movie.
No doubt he is hampered by the fact that he couldn't film in the real Havana and not surprisingly there's a lot of interior shots, deserted beaches, fields, etc.
As to Garcia's Fico character running the "best" nightclub in Havana, this is nonsense. There were many many nightclubs before Castro and is there a best nightclub today in Las Vegas, NY, LA, etc? There were also many American vistors to Havana for most of the 1950's and tourism was a key part of the Havana economy but the movie largely ignores this fact. Some of the main characters are anti-Battista but the movie largely misses the significant and growing resistance to Castro that developed during this period. And while the movie profiles one character leaving Cuba in 1959, it doesn't capture the massive exodus from Cuba of many Cubans, Americans, and others.
Garcia acts, directs, produces, and writes the music for this ambitious movie. For those looking for a love story with a lot of Cuban music set against a historical backdrop, the movie will be pretty good and entertaining. For those looking at an accurate and detailed look at this historic piece of Cuban history, you'll only find it okay.
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