With its command of reverberant silences, its conveyance of past horror and ongoing pain, 'The Innocents' does what all good movies do: it lingers with you.
Cubans want things Americans have, but they know the strength of their own culture, and of their dreams. Don’t expect images of Che Guevara to disappear soon.
We never admitted that the lake was terrifying, that it was a dark, alluring, fearful hole in the world, more grim than serene. We never said the word “drown."
