Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Other authors / contributors: | Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás, film director.
Granados, Daisy, actor.
Núñez, Eslinda, actor.
Valdés, Omar, actor.
Corrieri, Sergio, actor.
The Criterion Collection (Firm),
Kanopy (Firm)
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file MPEG-4 Flash
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| Notes: | Title from title frames.
Film.
In Process Record.
Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés, Sergio Corrieri.
Originally produced by The Criterion Collection in 1968.
In English.
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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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| Publisher's no.: | 11974297 Kanopy
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