2017
Netflix
1 h 53 m

2017
Netflix
1 h 53 m

Summary Jon Alpert began a chronicle of Fidel Castro’s Cuba in 1972, bringing along a small crew and a portable camera. Filmed over 45 years, Cuba and the Cameraman follows three families and Castro. Alpert was there for Cuba’s socialism of the early ‘70s, and for the 1980 Mariel Bay boatlift, when over 100,000 Cubans fled the island, accompanie...

Documentary

Directed By: Jon Alpert

Written By: Jon Alpert

2017
Netflix
1 h 53 m

2017
Netflix
1 h 53 m

Cuba and the Cameraman

Name: Cuba and the Cameraman
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2017-11-24
Duration: 1 min 53 s
Rating: 82

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Los Angeles Times

Nov 22, 2017

As a decades-long, ground-level portrait of the country, [Alpert's] vibrant film is unprecedented.

By Sheri Linden FULL REVIEW

IndieWire

Nov 22, 2017

Cuba and the Cameraman, while essentially a greatest hits collection for Alpert’s career, never feels recycled. It also never feels Frankensteined together.

By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW

Village Voice

Nov 30, 2017

Cuba and the Cameraman distills thousands of hours of footage into 113 lively, whirlwind minutes, covering big news events — the Mariel Boatlift; a Castro visit to the United Nations; the Communist leader’s death in 2016 — but also always taking the time to capture the everyday drift of life.

By Alan Scherstuhl FULL REVIEW

The New York Times

Nov 29, 2017

In part because of its political blind spots, Cuba and the Cameraman is captivating. (Whatever you think of Mr. Alpert’s perspective, it’s interesting.) But it’s mostly worth watching because of human stories like these.

By Glenn Kenny FULL REVIEW

The Hollywood Reporter

Nov 21, 2017

A work of old-school humanism that hovers between pro-Revolutionary fervor and a more objective documentary stance, Cuba and the Cameraman is sustained by the strong bonds of trust which the gregarious Alpert has evidently been able to maintain with Cubans from various echelons of this theoretically classless society.

By Neil Young FULL REVIEW