this film be a lyrical and romantic memoir tell through the eye an eleven year old boy living in a rural cuban town the year of the castro revolution . it be an obviously genuine worthy labor of love . the name cuba libre and cuban blood be merely attempt to wrongly market this a an action film . dreaming of julia make much more sense . it have more in common with european cinema than with rambo and the revolution be merely an inconvenience to people daily life and pursuit . that fact alone make the film more honest than most work deal with this time period in cuban history . the excessive use of the voice over narrator do undermine the story but the film make up for it with unqualified clip from hollywood film that say so much more visually than the narrator could . the comparison to cinema paradiso and be fair game a the film do wax melancholy about movie and but there be an underlying pain at the loss of a lifestyle that surpass lose love . the revolution and like the film julie and never seem to have an end .