A multi-international production (France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium) deserved a premium Latin cast: Spanish Penélope Cruz, Venezuelan Edgar Ramírez (with two Netflix releases in less than two weeks), Brazilian WagnerMoura, Argentine Leonardo Sbaraglia, the Cubans Ana de armas and Tony Plana and the Mexican Gael Garcia Bernal.
In just over two hours, the story of Cuban spies infiltrating the Miami exile network against the Fidel Castro government is told. And I recommend seeing the movie as if it were a fictionalized documentary, because the counter is as we already know what happens there is neither suspense nor emotion, and beware that I do not say it because it is bad, even the performances are very good, mainly that of the Spanish.
I say this for example, the characters are shown as deserters, "worms" who escape from Cuba to go over to the enemy, that is exactly halfway through the film, only to show them as spies at the service of the revolution to anticipate and avoid attacks on Cuban soil. That if it were an invented story would have been an interesting plot twist, but as we already know what they play, it is like that remains in the air and is not surprising, even when they are captured. With a bit of general knowledge on the subject, we know that all of them were apprehended for about 15 years (some more others less), so that in the end it is not that there is a tension to see if they are caught or not or if they escape or what I meant that with no suspense or emotion.
Features:
the scenes in Cuba that seemed to be actually filmed there were made on the Gran Canaria Island of Spain, which aesthetically has a very similar "colonial of the 50s" vibe.
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The film functions as fictionalized news, at most as drama, not as one of spies or action or suspense.
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