Bitter Sugar

Bitter Sugar
by Leon Ichaso

Bitter Sugar
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Actor: Larry Villanueva, Luis Celeiro, Mayte Vil?n, Miguel Guti?rrez, Ren? Lavan
Director: Leon Ichaso
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: Spanish (Original Language)
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 102 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2001-02-27
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: New Yorker Video

Movie Reviews of Bitter Sugar

Movie Review: Bitter SUgar
Summary: 2 Stars

This is my favorite Cuban movie and I ordered two of the same movie and I have only received one to this date...

Summary of Bitter Sugar

Studio: New Yorker Films Video Release Date: 03/13/2001
In what may be the angriest portrait of Cuba ever made, director Leon Ichaso (Crossover Dreams) charts the journey of one young man from patriot to disillusioned dropout to angry rebel. Gustavo (Ren? Lavan) is an idealistic young Marxist scholar who dreams of attending the University of Prague. When he falls for an earthy dancer with a more pragmatic view of her homeland, who plans to escape to Florida, his ideals are systematically chipped away in the face of poverty, repression, corruption, and police brutality until it all becomes too much for him to bear. A far cry from the more romantic work of Tom?s Gutiérrez Alea (Strawberry and Chocolate), this film speaks volumes about a generation of exiles burning with anger and hate for Castro and his regime. It's also manipulative and heavy-handed, with Gustavo less a hero than a straw figure poised for a fall, and it's far less revealing than such self-critical Cuban features as Portrait of Teresa and Memories of Underdevelopment. But its vivid and passionate feelings of betrayal can hardly be dismissed. Ichaso shot portions of the film in Cuba and smuggled the footage out, but Santo Domingo doubles for Havana through the bulk of the feature. --Sean Axmaker

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