- Studio: First Run Features
- Release Date: Oct 18, 2002
- Summary: This documentary examines the political and social impact that Cuban leader Fidel Castro has had upon the world during the more than forty years he has been in power.
- Director: Estela Bravo
- Genre(s): Biography, Documentary
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 13
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Mixed: 9 out of 13
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Negative: 2 out of 13
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75Bravo works too hard at extolling Castro -- The film's historical footage is compelling, though, and provides plenty to think about.
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The tone is doting, but not cloying.
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60It's a refreshing change from the self-interest and paranoia that shape most American representations of Castro. At the same time, Bravo anticipates that such a view will drive some nuts.
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20Estela Bravo's disgraceful documentary Fidel could have been financed by the man himself.
Score distribution:
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Positive: 2 out of 3
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Mixed: 0 out of 3
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Negative: 1 out of 3