Product Details

• Actors: Rupert Evans, Nathalia Verbeke, Derek Jacobi
• Directors: Guantanamera
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: Unrated
• Studio: Peace Arch Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: June 24, 2008
• Run Time: 86 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0015U0QMG
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #36,203 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description

After a violent storm, Ali awakens on a deserted beach, sick, disoriented and unsure of how he got there. He makes his way to the closest town where meets the beautiful and sensual Manuela, a dancer from Havana. She quickly feels drawn to him and despite her friend and suitor Guido s warnings and ill remarks Manuela falls in love with this mysterious stranger. Desperate and distraught, Ali s past suddenly unfolds as visions crash upon him. Through flashbacks he begins to realize who he is, where he has been and how he knows this man named Guido .

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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars post traumatic stress disorder, August 19, 2008

By	Ron Braithwaite "Hummingbird God" (El Indio, Texas United States) - See all my reviews

This movie is a surreal criticism of the tortures that are--according to Hollywood--taking place in Guantanamo. The main character, a supposed terrorist suspect washed out of Guantanamo during a storm, is rescued by a beautiful night club dancer who invites him to live on with her platonically. The whole thing is a bit much for Ali, our middle-eastern Muslim now in sensuous Cuba. He is both appalled and attracted by the girl's life style. He, of course, doesn't drink and is jerked back and forth by flashbacks of his Guantanamo tortures and his sexual dreams about his saviouress, Maria.

Ali is also full of repressed desire and guilt, also brought forth by his brutal interrogation. Finally, the girl, who herself can stand it no longer, takes Ali to bed and tries to get him out of the country...but...she's hit by a car.

Ali, meanwhile, living in a world increasingly surreal, sees himself, alternately, as both the tortured and the torturer. Reality comes back quickly now and he recognizes himself as an Army interrogator involved in the suicide of a terror suspect. Guilt-ridden he cuts his wrists to be sent home to his wife....who just happens to be the beautiful Maria.

Ron Braithwaite author of novels--"Skull Rack" and "Hummingbird God"--on the Spanish Conquest of Mexico

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars pretty much makes me sick, August 13, 2008

By	R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

In Communist Cuba an escapee from the American marine torture camp
finds a somewhat new life.
This film is very hard to watch with torture scenes.
The dance and music is sort of a Salsa ballet of a floor show
in a night club offsets that.
The love affair develops slowly between the damaged
Arab and the Cuban woman dancer with the large heart.
Just who are Guido, Manuela and Ali?
All is really not as it seems!