Denis Johnson’s novel about an American woman stranded in Central America during the 1984 Nicaraguan Revolution gets a contemporary update in this romantic thriller, also featuring Benny Safdie.
Considering that it’s set in Nicaragua under an oppressive government, with streets lined by armed military guards and protest signs calling to “Stop the Abuse of Power,” it’s quite an achievement that the film just sits there, inert.
That may partly be due to the decision to update Denis Johnson’s 1986 novel from its original setting during the Sandinista rule in 1984. That time shift, in the screenplay by the director, Léa Mysius and Andrew Litvack, consists mainly of adding cellphones, internet and masks to acknowledge the COVID-19 pandemic. Somehow, the stakes just don’t feel real or urgent.
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