CÉSAR A. SALGADO: Why we should watch Bitter Sugar again today

César A. Salgado
Thu, 10 Sep 2015 04:12:22 +0000
At the Movies, cinema

Two decades ago, León Ichaso’s 1996 film Bitter Sugar couldn’t get a break even from its most sympathetic critics. Achy Obejas, for example, started her review for the Chicago Tribune acknowledging many of its merits. She praised the “nuanced, rich portraits” that Cuban exile actors Miguel Gutiérrez, René Laván and Mayte Vilán made of Cubans …