Beyond The Sea

Not to be confused with the 2004 Bobby Darin biopic, Lisandro Perez-Rey's excellent documentary is a riveting account of one of the most extraordinary events in U.S. immigration history: the 1980 Mariel Boatlift, which brought some 130,000 Cubans to U.S. shores. In fact, the powerful images of their arrival — thousands upon thousands of desperate men, women and children packed to overflowing on small boats — were so dramatic that the events leading up to their departure from Cuba have all but been obscured. Perez-Rey's succinct documentary does a superb job of shedding light on circumstances that, for a variety of reasons, have been misrepresented and badly misunder...