I Am Cubs
Three views of Cuba: the repressive, fragmented, poverty-stricken last gasp of modern Communism offered by the U.S. media and its pals, the right-wing anti-Castro Cubans in Florida; the wonderland of repudiated gay and "counter-revolutionary" culture in movies like Strawberry and Chocolate, a 1993 feature film set in pre-Mariel 1979; and the glittering pleasures — social and spiritual — of the reclaimed island shown by what is surely the supreme masterpiece of the poetic documentary form, Mihail Kalatozov’s 1964 Russian-Cuban coproduction I Am Cuba.