Reviews

5 people produced the screen play to this film and their imprint is seen by the way the script takes abrupt turns. Romance and comedy are replaced by disappointment and bitterness. But the bitterness is due to ignorance of Kerr's position and that she is too proud to tell the man she loves and wants to be with of her circumstances. That 's what makes this film great a combination of a comedy director from Marx Brothers and Laurel and Hardy working with a romantic script that plays to his experience and then throws in a challenge. This film is legendary and regarded as one of the best ever made. I just enjoyed how it promises to be a romantic comedy but heads down avenues unexpected to give th eaudience a new view on relationships. Although it could do with more on th esense of guilt and arguments about breaking up relationships and two-timing.

I love this film. Its flaws is I also its strengths. You either dislike the didactics about Marxist revolution as invariably right or enjoy the over top worshipping of Marx and revolution. Batista is presented as a pantomime villain to be driven out by the heroic freedom fighters of Castro and joyous tearful people of Havana celebrate their liberators. USA is attacked for supporting Batista. But as its a Cuban documentary if you dislike the politics then just enjoy the Cuban settings and atmosphere. There should be more of this as the directors have made a documentary looking at different experiences of those in the revolution from a couple of years earlier. Its the Marxist influence that has made this into a piece of Marxist propaganda when its wider appeal would by the exotic location and flavours. At a time when USA foreign policy is being denounced, a remake of this with less didactics and more Cuban soul will have fans.