One gesture says it all.....

Agreed. It's atmospheric, captivating, and, not only one of Redford's best, but one of my favorites.

The only second chance you get is to make the same mistake twice. - David Mamet

I like this movie a lot. I happen to consider the role of Jack Weil as THE macho.
The guy never dropped tear, in the whole film... Jack gave his diamond for Bobby's sake, but he also did it because the life both would have had would have been a lie.

I did dropped a tear in the final scene... It hurts you so much. He really loved her and did not even hesitated; that shows incredible strenght and enormous self sacrifice. Reading this I remember parts of the movie where it is hinted something regarding Jack's life. Apparently he was an orphaned child (Grew in the streets) and lived as a gambler drifter and the part where the two are in the bathroom and Olin says: How much times have you lost everything Jack? was devastating. The movie as a whole talks about unselfishness (Remember what Jack thoughts of the revolution, he did not cared). He suffered, and many more than many of us has ever suffered (Or so the movie says) and the final scene was everything: Jack was willing to prove that you need more courage to suffer than to die.

Any man would just have just colapsed in to tears. He was *about* to, and that is an interesting touch.

Bobby was a whole mystery, but I think she became a better person because of Arturo.

A very good movie, but could have been better.

I like this movie very much,too .

There are not too many of Redford-Pollack collaborations that I haven't liked. But I found that this one realy yucky - and not beceause of how Redford looked in it. I found that it completely failed as a romantic drama and it was the director's fault.

1) the scene in Jacks apartment when he brings Bobby back the second time. He's supposed to be passionatly in love, but makes a phone call first. Then he walks slowly over to her and gently embracers her. This is not a woman's idea of how a man should act when he is passionately in love. Rent Gone With The Wind and you can see what I mean. Clark Gable utterly ravishes Vivien Leigh

2) Too many crotch shots and - German Burlesque, showgirls , and the worse was the comment about "sandy pussies" - all more geared to men. I understand that the director was probably trying to get across the decadence of Cuba at the time, but the showgirls would have been enough.

3) The ending with the off-handed remark: " So Long Kiddo"? Did this evoke any emotion in you? What would have been better would for him to have hugged her passionatly and pulled away quicky, walking quickly down the stairs, and then, one last look at her before getting into his car. It sounds meldramadic when you read it, I know, but Redford's character was just too cool for a man who's lost the women he passionatly loves. There needed to be more vulnerability to him, not too much, but some.

4) Pollack's miscasting and direction of Lena - too underplayed. She looked more afraid and in awe of Redford than in love.

5) I don't think Redford is good in roles where he has to demonstrate great passion, have you ever seen him do this in any movie (Out of Africa maybe, but then I found this romance didn't work because Streep demonstrates absoultely no sexuality on screen - she does not appear to be very sensuous). My perception may be clouded by the French films I watch.