Reviews of AFI Festival Movies : <i> Following are reviews for the American Film Institute Film Festival. All screenings are at the Cineplex Odeon Century Plaza Cinemas unless otherwise indicated. : </i> : TODAY
‘Nobody Listened’
U.S.A., 1988, 117 minutes, 8 p.m. Co-director Nestor Almendros attacked Castro’s Cuba in “Improper Conduct” for its treatment of gays. Here, he and Jorge Ulla indict its penal system: for brutality, beatings, 20-year-plus sentences for the political prisoners. Disturbing and frequently convincing--though the deck is somewhat stacked and the tone sometimes shrill.
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