Irish Film Critic: You’re definitely going to enjoy this movie, it captures Cuba and its people in such a beautiful light rarely seen in film.
Slant Magazine: It alternates political ponderings with a loose and discursive subtext in which Hubert Sauper explores the idea of Cuba as an island paradise.
Salon: "What emerges is a vibrant portrait of a people and a nation that is trying to maintain its own identity without foreign interference."
NY Times: "The Oscar-nominated documentarian Hubert Sauper explores vestiges of foreign presence in Cuba, from the ground up."
Hammer to Nail: "...nevertheless stands as a monumental tribute to a place deserving of better than it normally gets."
Film School Radio: Interview with Hubert Sauper
Film Forward: "... is an essential watch for anyone interested in present-day Cuba, its future, and its fascinating contradictions."
Legacy: Sterling Magee (2020), one half of blues duo Satan & Adam
Film Actually: "Hubert Sauper... explores the underlying tensions between capitalist and socialist ideals from the perspective of one of the world's infamous bastions of communism - Cuba."
RogerEbert:"Rather than massage the ego of its progressive target audience, this film stares back at us with a piercingly critical gaze."
Musee Magazine: Sauper films all of the shots with maximum sensitivity focusing on the vitality and resilience of the inhabitants of this vibrant “utopia”. It is ultimately filled with joy.
Screen Slate: "Epicentro, set in Havana, is an exploration of the shadowy place that resides in between truth and myth, both their borders diffused and smoky."
The Washington Post: "...director of the Oscar-nominated “Darwin’s Nightmare” and “We Come as Friends,” turns his lens on the history of Cuba and the legacy of colonialism."
Screen Slate: Epicentro, set in Havana, is an exploration of the shadowy place that resides in between truth and myth, both their borders diffused and smoky.
Pen Bay Pilot: In his latest film, Sauper explores a century of interventionism and myth-making together with the extraordinary people of Havana
Keeping it Reel: “Epicentro” offers a striking look at a specific time in Cuba’s history and how it relates and was impacted by other significant moments of the past.
Cleveland: "The film celebrates the indomitable spirit of the Cuban people -- particularly the children -- who have endured decades of Spanish and American interventionism and economic deprivation."
Mubi: Movie Poster of the Week: Hubert Sauper’s “Epicentro”
Yellow journalism and warfare unfold, and cinema, in its infancy, amplifies and distorts it all.
NY Times: "Like the blues, there’s real pain here, mixed with real beauty."
