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A 1968 Cuban drama film directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes. It depicts the alienation of a bourgeois intellectual in post-revolutionary Cuba through a fragmented narrative and documentary footage.
Memories of Underdevelopment: Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. With Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés. A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami.
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- Drama
- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- 1973-05-17
A classic of Cuban cinema by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes. It follows a bourgeois intellectual's alienation and ambivalence in postrevolutionary Havana.
- Sergio
- A godfather of sorts in modern Cuban cinema, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea—known among friends and colleagues as “Titón”—showed an equal commitment to art and politics early in his career.
- Gutiérrez Alea cowrote the screenplay for Memories with Edmundo Desnoes, who had written the 1964 novella upon which the film is based. The novelist is quick to assert in interviews that the film’s flaky, apolitical protagonist, Sergio, who spends his days wandering around Havana criticizing those who participate in the revolution as well as those who have fled abroad, is actually a fictionalized version of himself.
- Both Gutiérrez Alea and Desnoes have short cameos in the film. Gutiérrez Alea plays a director at the ICAIC who agrees to put a screen test together for aspiring actress Elena, Sergio’s romantic interest.
- Even while following a script, Gutiérrez Alea leaned into an improvisatory style of direction. Many of the film’s most memorable sequences, such as one in which Sergio makes his way through a crowd celebrating May Day, were caught on the fly.
Aug 26, 2018 · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's 1968 film is a portrait of a disaffected man trying to reconcile himself to history in the turbulent years after the Cuban revolution. The film is a visual and moral tour de force, a masterpiece of cinema that challenges and engages with the reality of its time.
A film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, adapted from a novel by Edmundo Desnoes, about a bourgeois intellectual's alienation in postrevolutionary Cuba. Watch the trailer and learn more about this landmark of world cinema, restored by The Criterion Channel.
A Cuban man cycles through his opinions and memories as the threat of foreign invasion intensifies and the rest of his family moves to Miami. Sergio looks back through his life following the departure of his wife, parents and friends in the wake of the Bay of Pigs incident.
