Beyond the Sea

Name: Beyond the Sea
Genre: Documentary
Released: March 23, 2005
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 61

2005

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Cinema Tropical | Release Date: March 23, 2005

Summary: It began with a bus crashing through the gates of an embassy in Havana and unraveled into one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human migrations. As Fidel Castro briefly allowed Cubans to leave the island, nearly 130,000 of them left their homeland in an unrelenting stream of vessels bound for the United States. 25 yearsIt began with a bus crashing through the gates of an embassy in Havana and unraveled into one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human migrations. As Fidel Castro briefly allowed Cubans to leave the island, nearly 130,000 of them left their homeland in an unrelenting stream of vessels bound for the United States. 25 years later, the personal stories surrounding the Mariel Boatlift continue to resonate with an energy that can only be described as surreal and powerful. (Cinema Tropical)… Expand

Director: Lisandro Perez-Rey

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 80 min

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Lael Loewenstein

Manages to be at once historically elucidating and personally compelling. Read full review

David Sterritt

Full of fascinating eye-witness accounts. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

A riveting account of one of the most extraordinary events in U.S. immigration history. Read full review

David Ng

This is hardly the most in-depth doc on Cuban refugees (see the epic Balseros). Still, Beyond the Sea grants a quiet dignity to its subjects without sanctifying them. Read full review

Russell Scott Smith

It's ultimately a shallow effort. Read full review

Lawrence Van Gelder

These tales of upward mobility seem at odds with Mr. Pérez-Rey's choice to include a clip from the 1983 remake of "Scarface," in which Al Pacino, playing a Marielito thug, introduces a machine gun as his "little friend." Read full review

Tasha Robinson

The stories Pérez-Rey's subjects tell are shocking, even moving. But they're also narrow, limited, and staid, and so is the film that contains them. Read full review

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