Oscar-nominated documentarian Hubert Sauper ('Darwin's Nightmare') visits Cuba and its people in the Sundance2020 prize winner 'Epicentro'
A country almost too photogenic for its own good, Cuba has starred in more features, particularly documentaries, than might seem strictly proportional to its size, GDP or geopolitical influence. But then again, to repurpose an old Winston Churchill witticism, it's a nation that produces far more history than it can consume locally.
Impoverished but neither broken nor bowed — despite the Trump administration's recent efforts to make them suffer economically — the Cuban subjects come across as resourceful, wised-up survivors, still proud to be living in one of the last communist countries in the world, even if you have to watch what you say around the cops.
Through interactions with these two and many other kids — the "little prophets" as Sauper calls them in the end credits — a cinematic essay is built up in layers that engages with, among many other things: Columbus' first landing on Cuba as the dawn of colonialism; the birth of utopianism at the very same time the New World was discovered; the legacy of the Spanish-American War and Teddy Roosevelt's imperialist ambitions for the island; how the earliest documentaries at the...
Working as his own cinematographer as usual, Saupert and his minimalist crew succeed in getting close enough to the subjects to feel more like collaborators than interviewers. Or even co-conspirators, given that one late sequence sees Sauper posing as the girls' guardian to help get them into a fancy hotel meant for tourists so they can enjoy the swimming pool.
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