Revolution Rent brings up 525,600 interesting details as it documents Rent's groundbreaking journey to Cuba, but they never quite measure up to the insight they tease. JacobOller's review:
is the ‘90s. Every note of its riffs and every thread of its scarves resonate at the exact frequency of the decade. As catchy as some of its songs are, it hasn’t exactly been evergreen. So a facelift, even a minor, mostly extratextual one, is exciting. When ex-Broadway Angel Andy Señor Jr. brought the show to Cuba in 2014—the first American musical to come to the country in 50 years—that was just one facet of the venture.
Perhaps the movie’s most trenchant element is its first-hand experience of an industry-specific version of culture clash. The filmmakers aren’t afraid to show Señor Jr. in an unflattering light, as he sometimes turns up his nose at those auditioning for their distance from Broadway standards, or loses his temper at their relative lack of discipline.
This is the rare movie that needs more length in order for it to work. If it had a little more time, showed a little more material, dug a little deeper into the issues at play, it could use its cute connections to compose a convincing argument that the hyper-specificis actually as malleable as it’s allowed to be. New York in the ‘90s, Havana in the ‘10s—artists facing interpersonal and structural hardship is everywhere, as long as those telling the story are willing to listen.
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