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"The
film...explores the separation of four Cuban families and their
efforts to remain connected despite politics and distance.
There's enough in it to move and irritate just about everyone
with a stake in the details. And that's the documentary's greatest
strength -- its bullheaded insistence on story over ideology...a
brave stand against the politics of hate..."
-Ana Menendez/ The Miami Herald |
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"Blasting the screen
with red-hot beats, intense musicality and sure-footed confidence,
director Lisandro Perez-Rey has crafted a slamming documentary
about the talented hip-hop artists emerging from Cuba's cultural
vibrancy...Creating myth and poetry from music and politics, la
Fabri-k hypnotizes audiences with the rhythm's pull...Perez-Rey
follows the subjects with a seamless flow of kinetic energy
weaving together interviews, performances and day-in-the-life
verite footage creating a vibrant and infectious...mosaic of
Cuba, of a group of friends, mentors, and musicians
-Shaz Bennett / American Film Institute (AFI) |
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"IMPRESSIVE both for effectively documenting
the scope of the exodus and for capturing its participants'
disparate tales, "Beyond the Sea" manages to be at once historically
elucidating and personally compelling." -- Lael Loewenstein,
Variety
"Beyond the Sea grants a quiet dignity to its subjects without
sanctifying them. And the less-than-ideal outcome of many of their
lives rings all the more powerfully for being so plainly presented." --
David Ng, Village Voice
"EXCELLENT...a riveting account of one of the most extraordinary
events in U.S. immigration history... Perez-Rey's succinct documentary
does a superb job of shedding light on circumstances that, for a
variety of reasons, have been misrepresented and badly misunderstood." --
Ken Fox, TV Guide |
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