2020 · drama · history · thriller
Wasp Network
Directed by Olivier Assayas2h 8m2020
Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Our read: Wasp Network (2020) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded drama · history · thriller entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured drama / history, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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