A well-intentioned, but crude Scottish comedy, starring Eva Birthistle and Charity Wakefield as Rosa and Ailie, two very different sisters who take the ashes of their socialist dad to Cuba. Director John Roberts can’t seem to decide on a tone. One minute, Birthistle is allowed to be a gritty, complex modern left-winger tangled up in her parents’ past. The next she’s being asked to ham it up as the awkward-tomboy-who-wants-love-really, a kind of Castro-obsessed Calamity Jane.
The Cuban males she meets are equally all over the place. Handsome tour guide Tomas (Carlos Acosta) is a fantasy figure: an intelligent, sensitive single parent and ballet dancer, who, after two days, is willing to risk his life for Rosa. Good grief, is that what it takes to be worthy of her love?
