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Excelent film, but to say this is the "true history" is a slight exaggeration, there being very little documentation (and that skewered by the journalism of the era) about the event or the supposed "club of 42". While the incident was and is well remembered here in Mexico, how much is the "real truth" and how much is speculation (we don't know that Ignancio de la Torre was actually at the dance, although his sexuality was well established... fun fact, because Emilio Zapata was one of de la Torre's more important employees -- his horse trainer -- Zapata was "smeared" by his opponents as an allegedly gay man). That de la Torre was a self-indulgent elitist snob and oppresive member of the Mexican "one percent"... as were the other 41... had the unfortunate side effect of perpetuating the stereotype of gay men as a bunch of rich cross-dressing hedonists.

Being a French-Spanish production, Wasp Network manages to sidestep the political minefield it would have faced being either a US or Cuban production. That said, it's much too complex a story to be told in two hours. I enjoyed the fact that we were not let in on the fact that the "defectors" were actually Cuban agents until later in the film, though the sudden appearance of their handler was clumsily handled. Controversial historical figures like the US protected terrorist, Posades Carriles, was never fleshed out as well as it could have been, nor was the "show trial" of the Cuban Five given its proper weight.