It’s hard to think of another working director who encompasses the range and moods of Olivier Assayas, from beautifully crafted minor-key notes covering major issues like “Non-Fiction,” to fi…
, from beautifully crafted minor-key notes covering major issues like “Non-Fiction,” to films of mysterious, introspective ambiguity like “Personal Shopper,” to the sweeping symphonic feast of “Carlos.” That latter epic will be the most common reference point when people discuss “,” a meaty true-story group portrait of a bunch of Cuban spies who infiltrated anti-Castro networks in Florida in the 1990s.
“This is based on a true story,” we’re informed in an opening title, following which pilot René González steals a crop duster and flies it to Miami, where he declares himself a defector. It’s a shock to his wife, Olga , left alone in Havana to raise their daughter, Irma , who’s fated to be taunted for having a traitor for a daddy.
This is already a lot to take in, but then Assayas throws in a “four years earlier” segment with Gerardo Hernandez , tasked by the Cubans with supervising the moles in Florida and organizing them into the Wasp Network. A helpful voiceover now details who’s who, accompanied by a montage of all the players, but notwithstanding its usefulness, this is an odd moment to include the insertion, almost as if designed to be the prologue of a Part Two recap.
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