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“Balseros” is movie of deep commitment executed by a team of heavily talented reporters and film professionals. The work pain covers a period of almost eight years, starting with the so-called “Balseros” crisis of 1994, when – in shades of the Mariel Boatlift in 1980 – a policy shift by Fidel’s government sends thousands of industrious Cubans streaming towards the shores of Florida.
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The access the film team has to the island is unprecedented. You discover the rafts being crafted and carried through the streets. When protagonist Guillermo Armas rides to the shore with this raft, he’s cordoned by a wave of joyous bicyclists. What an fantastic scene. In the meantime, the camera captures the seedy and rundown nature of present-day Havana.
Where “Balseros” stands apart is in carrying the film through to 2001, when we gape what has become of the seven protagonists. You have to give ample credit to co-directors and writers Carles Bosch & Josep Domènech for the peril and skill in putting together this anecdote.
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And, in a film with standout moments, here’s mine: the team takes to the waters to document the journeys. At times, it encounters hauntingly empty rafts. The express over gently tells you about the implications of an empty raft. All you have to do is juxtapose the flimsiness of some of these vessels vs. the raging currents in the straits and it’s not difficult to imagine how these journeys came to a ghostly kill.
Good complements to “Balseros” are “Finding Mañana” Mirta Ojito’s outstanding 2005 epic of the the Mariel Boatlift, Reinaldo Arenas’ “Before Night Falls” (acclaimed author Arenas also came over in Mariel) and “Azucar Amarga,” another huge film with outstanding live footage (spliced into a compelling fictional chronicle) .
The movie follows seven specific protagonists. I found it hard to distinguish the threads at times, but Spanish producer Bausan Films has an outstanding press package on its web set and it contains a tiny cheat sheet of the seven, which I’m pasting in here because I mediate it’ll really assist your watching of the film:
MÉRICYS GONZALEZ
HER Hump
AUGUST 1994
Builds a raft in Havana
SEPTEMBER 1994
She sets off to sea. The raft is wrecked and she returns to Cuba
FIVE YEARS LATER 2001
She obtains a just visa and goes to Albuquerque, Novel Mexico to join her sister
OSCAR DEL VALLE
HIS JOURNEY
AUGUST 1994
Builds a raft in Havana
SEPTEMBER 1994
Goes to sea and in U.S. waters is picked up and sent to the naval unsuitable at Guantanamo
OCTOBER/DECEMBER 1995
Accepted in the U.S.A. he is sent to the Bronx
FIVE YEARS LATER 2001
He has moved to York (Pennsylvania)
RAFAEL CANO
HIS JOURNEY
AUGUST 1994
Builds a raft and is thrown out of it
SEPTEMBER 1994
In a “modern” raft he sets out to sea and is detained in U.S. waters. He is taken to Guantanamo
OCTOBER/DECEMBER 1995
Accepted into the U.S. he is sent to Miami
JUNE 1996
He goes to Nebraska
FIVE YEARS LATER 2001
The TV program broadcast nationally from Miami, Gran Impacto, sets out to accumulate him
MÍRIAM HERNÁNDEZ
HER JOURNEY
AUGUST 1994
Builds a raft in Batabanó (in southern Cuba)
SEPTEMBER 1994
She sets out to sea and is detained in U.S. waters and sent to the naval cross in Guantanamo
OCTOBER/DECEMBER 1995
Accepted in the U.S. she is sent to Miami
FIVE YEARS LATER 2001
She is serene waiting for her daughter, who is now eight years aged, and who Miriam level-headed has not been able to bring from Cuba
GUILLERMO ARMAS
HIS JOURNEY
AUGUST 1994
Builds a raft in Havana
SEPTEMBER 1994
Sets out to sea and is detained in U.S. waters and sent to the naval heinous at Guantanamo
MAY 1995
Accepted in the U.S. he is sent to Miami
FIVE YEARS LATER 2001
He lives with his wife and daughter in Miami
JUAN CARLOS AND MISCLAIDA
THEIR JOURNEYS
AUGUST 1994
They perform a raft in Havana
SEPTEMBER 1994
They plot out to sea and are detained in U.S. waters and sent to the naval horrible at Guantanamo
OCTOBER/DECEMBER 1995
Accepted in the U.S. they are sent to Granby, Connecticut
FIVE YEARS LATER 2001
They have separated. He lives in Granby. She lives in Albuquerque, Novel Mexico.
The movie documents the lives of half a dozen Cubans as they struggle to hasten their heart-broken lives to approach the land of dreams. Seen in a braoder context, I could immediately characterize to the hopes and aspirations of people in various corners of the third world as they observe to produce a home in the West.
Most curious was to impress how fragile human relationships are – majority of these 6 Cubans who finally effect it to America accept loving and living with people against all promises made to loved ones when departing. Since this documentary tracks the lives of these people across several years, it provides a rich historical context to measure the reality against the dreams that these immigrants had when departing for America.
Thankfully, the movie stays away from any political overtones (as in Castro-bashing, or America/ CIA bashing) .
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