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...York (Perez 1-0) at Toronto (Guzman...
Directed by Mira Nair '79, maker of "Mississippi Masala," "The Perez Family" is the best movie to come along this year. A luminous, carnal comedy about love, exile and the immigrant experience among Miami's Cubans, Nair's film is delightful as the blossoming spring...
...movie begins in 1980, during the so-called Mariel Boatlift, when Fidel Castro emptied his prisons of political prisoners, criminals, homosexuals and other undesirables and allowed them to go to Florida. Juan Raul Perez (Alfred Molina), a political prisoner, hasn't seen his wife Carmela in 20 years, ever since he sent her and their infant daughter to Miami. Memories of Carmela and his daughter kept him alive during his imprisonment, and he desperately looks forward to the reunion. Dorita Perez (Marisa Tomei), a young sugarcane worker, is obsessed with American popular culture, especially John Wayne and Elvis Presley...
...Miami, and are interned at the same military base while waiting for people who will sponsor their entry into the United States. Since preference is given to families, Dorita and Juan pretend to be married, and pick up a grandfather and a young man whose last name is also Perez. (The film's running joke is that Perez is the most common surname in Spanish, like Smith in English, and that this felicitous commonality is what gives the characters their freedom.) In Miami, meanwhile, Juan's wife Carmela (Anjelica Huston) believes that Juan is never going to arrive and, despite...
...would be unpardonable to reveal what happens, for "The Perez Family" has a nicely constructed and entertaining plot, but the movie's primary pleasures come from the actors and from the incidentals with which director Mira Nair has filled the story. The production design, the cinematography, the costumes and the music are all top-notch--the picture fairly bursts at the seams with wit, radiance and sensuality...