After he lit up last year’s Cannes Film Festival with Kristen Stewart starrer Personal Shopper, Olivier Assayas is back at it again, this time with an adaptation of a book about Cuban spies in America during the 1990’s called Wasp Network.
Assayas was awarded Best Director at Cannes last year for Personal Shopper, and was nominated for the Palme d’Or in 2014 for his previous film Clouds of Sils Maria.
The Cuban government struck back with the Wasp Network—a dozen men and two women—sent to infiltrate those organizations.
The story of the Cuban Five is fascinating, and all the more relevant now with America’s evolving relationship with Cuba.