April 18, 2006: Hollywood goes Havana ... but not in the usual pro-Castro wayLast night I attended the premiere of Cuban-American actor/director Andy Garcia's The Lost City (trailer here), which opens next week. The movie is an epic about a Cuban family in the time immediately before and after the revolution. One brother is a social democrat, one a committed Fidelista and the third (Garcia) is the Bogartish owner of El Tropico, an Afro-Cuban night club where much of the action takes place. (The movie is infused with Cuban music and dance and has a sensational sound track.) The screenplay is by the recently deceased Cuban novelist Cabrera Infante who was an early on a supporter of Fidel and then decamped for Paris as the regime became more totalitarian.
Friday, April 14, 2006Coming Attraction: The Lost City
Last night I attended a screening Andy Garcia’s directorial debut The Lost City. I’ll post a fuller review when it releases April 28th, but I have to say it is one of the best films I’ve seen in a long time, and the music is fantastic. View the trailer here.
Set in Havana during the waning days of Batista, and the first year of the Castro regime, The Lost City accurately depicts the brutality of both dictators. According to internet reports, The Lost City’s principled depiction of the savagery of Che and Castro made it difficult to find a distributor.
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