In its first minutes, The Cuban sums up its central conflict, segueing from the vibrant watercolor visuals and tropical rhythms of its opening-credits sequence to the drab, hushed interiors of a nursing room: joy vs.
duty, creativity vs. rigidity, life vs. death. As scripted by Alessandra Piccione and directed by Sergio Navarretta, that conflict couldn't be clearer — so clear, in fact, that it's often stripped of emotion.
That's no fault of the actors, whose understated work reaches beyond the surface to suggest unspoken depths. This is especially true of Louis Gossett Jr.'s affectingly unpredictable turn as Luis Garcia, a onetime star of the Cuban jazz scene who's living out his last days in a Canadian nursing home.
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