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- 2020
- A71 Entertainment
- 1 h 49 m
- 2020
- A71 Entertainment
- 1 h 49 m
Summary When a pre-med student gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis (Louis Gossett Jr.), an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
Directed By: Sergio Navarretta
Written By: Alessandra Piccione
- 2020
- A71 Entertainment
- 1 h 49 m
- 2020
- A71 Entertainment
- 1 h 49 m
The Cuban
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Summary When a pre-med student gets her first job in a nursing home, an unexpected friendship with Luis (Louis Gossett Jr.), an elderly Cuban musician, reignites her love of music and changes her life forever.
Directed By: Sergio Navarretta
Written By: Alessandra Piccione
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Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 7 Critic Reviews
54
43% Positive
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
57% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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The Cuban does not develop everything in its screenplay to complete satisfaction. But what’s there is very good and believable. Combine that with the jaw-dropping directing and visual style, along with the pitch-perfect cast, and you are left with a compelling drama that is well worth it, flaws and all.
Golja and Gossett’s joint appeal—his rascally charm, her coltish earnestness—gives The Cuban soul, shining light through the gloom of brain decline and the horrors of an ambivalent healthcare system. Who needs validation when you have heart?
The Cuban pulls together music, romance, loss, and memory into an emotional tale that spans cultures and generations. One thing connects them all: Cuban music.
The real learning here ought to be that if you cast two such charismatic performers as Louis Gossett Jr. and Shohreh Aghdashloo in your movie, it would be better to clear all the Life Lesson clutter away and just let them get on with it.
Complications culminate in epiphanies and brief triumphs, as is customary. But this genial, well-intentioned movie never quite lands a real emotional punch.
Where the movie hits flat notes is in the way it spells out its points rather than letting friction percolate through the action.
Perhaps sensing that the rest of his story - mostly focusing around the earnest do-goodery of Golja's aide - falls emotionally flat, Navarretta lavishes attention on his two marquee players, creating tiny moments of poignancy.
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Production Company
S.N.A.P. Films,
920 Films,
MVPstyln Productions
Release Date Jul 31, 2020
Duration 1 h 49 m
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Website
http://www.thecubanmovie.com/
Awards
Whistler Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Los Angeles Pan African Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
DaVinci Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
