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Article: Up to a certain point.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- March 30, 1985
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Alea was right on the button in 1968, when bourgeois existence bumped into revolutionary history around the world on campus, rue and rice paddy; when style and substance clashed in every corner of culture; when radical movies arrived every week (it seemed) like the latest manifesto or political pamphlet. It is not entirely his fault, then, that his newest film, Up To A Certain Point (Hasta Cierto Punto), widely misses the mark. The subject now is machismo, conceived dialectically as both the sensibility and the system that imposes the hispanic male ego on Cuban society. But however much machismo may be a problem for Cubans, they are not exactly on the cutting edge of ...