"Admittedly, the shock value of the material and specific moments in Shadowboxer may offend or turn off some viewers, but they'd be missing out on what makes this a good film in spite of itself: the acting."
Cuba's "political turmoil of the late '50s...a love story...this is a lot to fit into a 2-1/2 hour film in which you're also trying to portray the beauty of Cuba's music and culture."
"Pizza's outer layer (its crust, so to speak) was clumsily put together as a container for its inner layer, which contains not enough meat, too much cheese."
Cuba's "political turmoil of the late '50s...a love story...this is a lot to fit into a 2-1/2 hour film in which you're also trying to portray the beauty of Cuba's music and culture."
"Pizza's outer layer (its crust, so to speak) was clumsily put together as a container for its inner layer, which contains not enough meat, too much cheese."
The thrill of meeting Marjane Satrapi reminded me of being 6 years old at Disney Land when I met the living, breathing Cinderella. Except Cinderella was an actress with a blond wig and Marjane is the real woman behind her autobiographical graphic novel, turned movie, “Persepolis”. The distinctive mole on her nose and her dark sultry eyes rose off the page and appeared in front of me, smoking and speaking with a French accent.