Strange habits that I have, last night I was watching the very fair and even-handed 1969 documentary short 79 Primaveraseras. The title translates to ‘79 Springs’ or perhaps ‘79 Seasons’, and concerns the life of Ho Chi Minh, former North Vietnam head honcho who had then recently died. I know it was very fair and even-handed because it is a documentary, and documentaries are always fair and even-handed, and even more so because it was made by noted the filmmaker Santiago Álvarez, who was in good standing indeed in Cuba.
What particularly caught my eye, though, was this: what was Tom Cruise doing at Ho Chi Minh’s funeral?
