Sergio y Sergei

This is a charming and light-hearted Cuban film that explores the radical changes the world (and particularly Cuba and Russia) suffered in late 80's and the early 90's. The characters are great, dialogues are well written, actors and actresses do a good job. The narrative is interesting, in the girl's first-person, and the way the lives of the Cuban professor and the Soviet Cosmonaut interact (besides the amateur radio operator from the United states). Politically, the film is critical to some lack of freedom in Cuba and its bureaucratism, unfortunately not mentioning consistently the embargo against the island and not being as critical to CIA spying as it is in relation to Cuba spying. Anyway, the movie is also fierce in portraying the chaos Perestroika and the end of Soviet regime threw Russia in. The end is nice and fulfilled my expectations.