Wasp Network

DramaHistoryThriller
Overview : Havana, Cuba, 1990. René González, an airplane pilot, unexpectedly flees the country, leaving behind his wife Olga and his daughter Irma, and begins a new life in Miami, where he becomes a member of an anti-Castro organization.
Budget : 10530000USD
language : en
Runtime : 128 min
Release Date : 2020-01-29
Imdb ID : tt6760876
Status : Released

Cast

Penélope Cruz
Olga

Edgar Ramírez
René

Gael García Bernal
Viramontez

Ana de Armas
Ana Margarita

Wagner Moura
Roque

Leonardo Sbaraglia
Basulto

Nolan Guerra Fernández
Cruz León

Osdeymi Pastrana Miranda
Irma

Tony Plana
Luis Posada Carriles

Julian Flynn
PUND's Pilot

Anel Perdomo
Viramontez's Wife

Julio Gabay
Roque's Cousin

Amada Morado
Tete

Leandro Cáceres
Panzón

Ernesto Ruiz Faxas
René's FBI Contact

Harlys Becerra
CANF Activist #1

Gabriel Buenaventura
CANF Activist #2

Carolina Peraza Matamoros
Irma (6 Years Old)

Juan Carlos Roque Moreno
Colonel Rabeiro

Edwin Fernández
Officer Caballero

Feliberto Beatón
Officer Estrada

Javier Guillarte Fernández
State Security Agent with Olga

Yura López
Immigration Agent with Olga

Raúl Bravo
René's Brother

Elbert Álvarez
Tannery Manager

Philip Stanton
Inglés Ahora Boss

Omar Ali
Jorge Mas Canosa

Juan Ángel Samper
Castro's Envoy

Chris Gillette
Bill Clinton's Advisor #1

Stephen William Tenner
Bill Clinton's Advisor #2

René Flinn
Bill Clinton's Envoy to Cuba

Adria Perez
Judge

Carlos Leal
Narrator (voice)

Saúl Rojas
Raúl Labanino Salazar

Noslen Sánchez
Fernando González

Denys Ramos Antúnez
Antonio Guerrero

Alberto González Corona
Joseph Santos

Dánae Hernández Reyes
Amarylis Silveiro

Yasmani Guerrero
Nilo Hernández

Yaité Ruiz
Linda Hernández

Luis A. Batista
Pilot Cessna #1

Miguel Ángel García
Co-pilot Cessna #1

Daniel Romero Pildaín
Pilot Cessna #2

Luis Miguel B.
Co-pilot Cessna #2

Abel López Cedre
Basulto's Co-pilot

Teherán Aguilar
Anti-Castroist Commando #1

Armando Palma
Anti-Castroist Commando #2

Egor Viga
Anti-Castroist Commando #3

Thomas Michael Dubyna
Guantánamo Base US Officer #1

Ruairi Rhodes
Guantánamo Base US Officer #2

Brendan McNamee
FBI Agent - Stakeout #1

Rob Harvie
FBI Agent - Stakeout #2

Michael Strelow
FBI Agent - Stakeout #3

Brannon Cross
US Coast Guard

Adri Torrijos
FBI Agent #1

Jhoey Carol
FBI Agent #2

Ilianki Vera Rivero
Cuban Airbase Controller

Jorge Reinaldo Ramírez Fernández
Cuban Airbase Officer

Armando Suávez Cobián
Havana Airport Controller

Steve Howard
US Airbase Controller

Lorenzo Rodríguez César
Havana Airport Customs Agent

Antulio Marín
Cruz León's Taxi Driver

Colin Laverty
Luis Posada Carriles' Interviewer #1

Gregory Binowski
Luis Posada Carriles' Interviewer #2

Yailene Sierra
Luis Posada Carriles' Interviewer #3

Patricia González Ciuffardi
Roque's Interviewer

Juan Jacomino
René's Press Conference

Alexander Meneghini
René's Press Conference

Michael Weissenstein
Basulto's Press Conference

Patrick Perry Oppman
Basulto's Press Conference

Will Grant
Basulto's Press Conference

Johanna Sol
Newscaster at Wedding

Giuseppe Scarfari
Italian Victim

Luisa Marcolina Ausenda
Italian Tourist #1

Gabriele Filippone
Italian Tourist #2

Yanelis Tejera
Hotel Capri Concierge

Casandra Lungu
Nurse

María del Carmen Muina
Lady on Plane

Pilar Varo
Gladys

Jade Kayla Lage Maynier
Ivett (18 Months)

Leia Sarmiento
Baby Yvett

Alma Shamira Parilla
Baby Yvett

Bill Clinton
Self (archive footage)

Roberto Robaina
Self (archive footage)

Fidel Castro
Self (archive footage)

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Reviews

Geronimo1967
Given the intriguing story and really good cast behind this, it ought to have been good. It isn't. It meanders all over the place with way too many plots, sub plots and storylines all ambling about devoid of a solid narrative. It could be a six-parter if it wanted to be, but as a single film it just doesn't really gel at all. Olivier Assayas clearly has some skin in the game as he sets out to interweave the political and personal stories of 5 Cubans who end up, by various means, in Florida in the 1990s. Tourist pilot Edgar Ramirez ("Rene") is one of then, who leaves home and stunningly gorgeous wife Penelope Cruz ("Olga") one day, pinches a plane and defects to the US where, together with "Juan Pablo" (Wagner Moura) he is soon part of a network that effectively tries to assist Cuban defectors to get to the USA. Their determination to destabilise the Castro administration starts to lead them into more complex, moral choices whilst we continue to see his wife struggling with day to day life back home with their daughter. That's just the first half hour... There are plenty more characters, and storylines; CIA involvement; the infamous hotel bombs of 1997 - all told in a rigidly episodic fashion. It is trying to cram way too much into two hours and as such the characterisations suffer. It's not that you don't like or sympathise with them, it's that you don't ever feel you really know or understand them - Gael García Bernal as the equivalent of "Control" somehow lacks any menace or sophistication too. There is some beautiful photography of the island of Cuba itself, and of the Canary Islands, and it looks great, the cast look great, but it needed much more focus and much tighter plot filtration.
tmdb28039023
Wasp Network (2019) is "based on a true story", but its makers may be looking at reality through 'beer goggles.' For example, there is a character played by Ana de Armas, who regardless of her talent – or lack thereof – reminds me of a young Tiffani Amber Thiessen. During the epilogue, however, we are shown a photo of the corresponding real person, and what we see is a thick, plump, buxom, etc., etc. woman, and there is nothing wrong with it just like there is nothing wrong with de Armas being slender; the problem lies in that the truth is manipulated to make it more attractive to the public. If director Olivier Assayas takes such liberty with a supporting character, how do we know what's real and what's a complete fabrication? In keeping with this pattern, the locations are authentic, but even if the events of the film were equally genuine, Assayas manages to needlessly complicate them. In principle, I have nothing against non-linear stories told non-sequentially, but this script would already be hard to follow, with its espionage and counter-espionage, moles, agents and double-agents, and above all its moral ambiguity and political contradictions. This material calls for simplification, not convolution. I mean, if your movie is a quote-unquote true story, wouldn't you want to push the truth all the way to the foreground? What's the use of knowing what really "happened" if we don't understand how and why it happened? Having said that, Wagner Moura is perfect for Wasp Network for the same reasons that made him a wrong choice for the title role in Sergio. In both movies he is snooty, arrogant, and shallow; unbecoming characteristics for a noble United Nations diplomat, but which fit his opportunistic character like a glove here – a character who also happens to have the best lines in the movie ([devouring a Big Mac] “after years of eating McCastro's, McDonald's is a delicacy;” or, when a Cuban journalist asks him, while his wife watches the interview from Miami, what he misses most about his life on American soil: [thinks for a moment] "My Jeep Cherokee”).

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