Memories of Underdevelopment.
This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and p...
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Language Notes: | In English |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
The Criterion Collection,
1968.
Kanopy Streaming, 2021. |
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| Summary: | This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually giving way to a mounting sense of alienation. With this adaptation of an innovative novel by Edmundo Desnoes, Gutiérrez Alea developed a cinematic style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through the use of experimental editing techniques, archival material, and spontaneously shot street scenes. Intimate and densely layered, MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT provides an indictment of its protagonist's disengagement and an extraordinary glimpse of life in postrevolutionary Cuba. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. Film |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound |
| Format: | Mode of access: World Wide Web. |