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  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 48 m

Summary Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, "utopian" Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propagan...

Directed By: Hubert Sauper

Written By: Hubert Sauper

  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 48 m
  • 2020
  • Not Rated
  • Kino Lorber
  • 1 h 48 m

Epicentro

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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Summary Epicentro is an immersive and metaphorical portrait of post-colonial, "utopian" Cuba, where the 1898 explosion of the USS Maine still resonates. This Big Bang ended Spanish colonial dominance in the Americas and ushered in the era of the American Empire. At the same time and place, a powerful tool of conquest was born: cinema as propagan...

Directed By: Hubert Sauper

Written By: Hubert Sauper

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
70
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Generally Favorable Based on 9 Critic Reviews
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88
Aug 28, 2020
Rather than massage the ego of its progressive target audience, this film stares back at us with a piercingly critical gaze.
By Matt Fagerholm FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 20, 2020
In another filmmaker's hands, this might have become a message-heavy morass, but Sauper and his co-editor, veteran Yves Deschamps (Bruno Dumont's The Life of Jesus, the 2018 restoration of Orson Welles' The Other Side of the Wind) work the material with a remarkable fluidity and gracefulness that's consistently engaging and surprising.
By Leslie Felperin FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 25, 2020
It alternates political ponderings with a loose and discursive subtext in which Hubert Sauper explores the idea of Cuba as an island paradise.
By Chris Barsanti FULL REVIEW
75
Aug 20, 2020
Epicentro is a lovely new tone poem to Cuba, as it is now, the Cuba behind the propaganda from within and without.
By Roger Moore FULL REVIEW
74
Sep 7, 2020
Epicentro depicts Cuba as a land that has long battled imposed polarities akin to that false Renaissance dichotomy: barbarous and noble—utopian and dystopian, scenic and impoverished. Intimate images in an age of transition: Sauper finds a view of modern Cuba between the contradictions history has forced onto it.
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70
Aug 20, 2020
It is the resilience of individuals that seems to reflect a melancholy Cuba acutely aware of its past but curious about its future. There are times when Epicentro seems to lack focus but no matter where it roams, it always returns to its central concerns of colonisation, mythmaking and the way the true spirit of Cuba resides in its people.
By Allan Hunter FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 20, 2020
It’s a fascinating moment for cultural stock-taking. Yet despite the filmmaker’s evident fondness for the people and nation, this impressionistic feature feels frustratingly obtuse, unfocused and unstructured.
By Dennis Harvey FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Groupe Deux, KGP Filmproduktion, Little Magnet Films, Ciné+, Eurimages, Ford Foundation - Just Films, Impact Partners
Release Date Aug 28, 2020
Duration 1 h 48 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website https://www.austrianfilms.com/film/epicentro
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Awards

Hainan International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Austrian Film Award, AT
• 2 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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