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Las Sandinistas!

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During 1979's Sandinista Revolution, a group of Nicaraguan women shatter barriers to lead rebel troops in battle and reshape their country with landmark social reforms.
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Andrea Gronvall Chicago Reader As fascinating as these women are, the film would have been stronger if a clearer timeline and more interviews with their male military colleagues had been included (although Noam Chomsky and Bernie Sanders pop up in archival footage). Mar 24, 2020 Full Review Carlos Aguilar Los Angeles Times An enthralling and imperative ode to forgotten heroines for whom monuments haven't been erected, "Las Sandinistas!" is simultaneously a wake-up call for Americans to confront their country's responsibility in the instability across Latin America. Mar 14, 2019 Full Review Owen Gleiberman Variety "Las Sandinistas!" emerges as a documentary of ripe impact and value, even if it's sometimes a ramshackle piece of filmmaking. Nov 29, 2018 Full Review Glenn Dunks The Film Experience Jenny Murray's debut feature Las Sandinistas! is an appropriately-timed documentary about the capacity of women in times of social upheaval and democratic unrest. Rated: B Apr 26, 2019 Full Review Beatrice Loayza Remezcla Nevertheless, Las Sandinistas is a riveting and eye-opening experience thanks to Dora Mara, Daisy, Giaconda, Sofia, Claudia, and Olga, the film's thoroughly compelling interview subjects. Apr 2, 2019 Full Review Jose Solís The Film Stage As American news channels obsess with the non-threat of the "migrant caravan" seeking refuge in the U.S., Las Sandinistas! arrives as a perfect piece to contextualize why it is these families are fleeing the places where they were born. Rated: B Nov 28, 2018 Full Review Read all reviews

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Audience Member Sad to see blatant Marxist propaganda mainstreamed and passed into mass social consumption without comment. This is a glorification of Marxist guerillas as the Sandinistas at the time were a Marxist-Leninist regime allied with and supplied by the USSR. This documentary goes out of its way to avoid acknowledging the ideology of the movement and who backs it and instead glorifies a group of women as morally outraged at the abuses of the Somoza regime and the condition of the poor who "did something" about it. This glossed-over romanticization of Marxism is a horror to behold and it could have been released by Progress Publishers, the Soviet Union's old propaganda mill. Garbage like this in my younger years actually duped me into radical leftism and it's very disheartening to see it playing free (currently) on Amazon Prime Video for subscribers like myself. The Sandinistas, after the demise of the USSR, sort of changed its posture and joined the Socialist International, where they were eventually evicted in the last few years due to the S.I.'s inability to deal with the regime's ongoing human rights abuses and disappearances of opponents which still occur today along with the rigged elections where Daniel Ortega's highest government posts are filled by closest family members. At the best, all this film is good for is as an illustration to young people how Marxists try to pass themselves off and dupe viewers. It's like a warped recruiting film. Sad this garbage is allowed listing here and gets aired by Amazon Prime and Netflix, and who knows who else. Imagine if videos made by admirers of the Third Reich were allowed to air their glorifying garbage all over mainstream media and have their videos rated by Rotten Tomatoes viewers. Marxist regimes had the highest death tolls in human history and garbage like this doesn't even have so much as a disclaimer. I'm gobsmacked this garbage is allowed here. What on earth? Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Not only is this film politically on point, but it captures a rarely seen perspective of everyday women who, when challenged, raised the level of what's possible for all of society. Moving inspirational and well shot. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/12/23 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis During 1979's Sandinista Revolution, a group of Nicaraguan women shatter barriers to lead rebel troops in battle and reshape their country with landmark social reforms.
Director
Jenny Murray
Producer
Jenny Murray, Catie Skipp, Sarah Winshall
Production Co
MCRM Productions
Genre
Documentary, War
Original Language
Spanish
Release Date (Theaters)
Nov 21, 2018, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Apr 2, 2019
Runtime
1h 40m
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