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Memories of Underdevelopment

Memories of Underdevelopment

Memorias del subdesarrollo

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea


  • Country: Cuba
  • Year: 1968
  • Language: Spanish
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  • Runtime: 97 min.

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's adaptation of Edmundo Desnoes' novel brought Latin American (and "Third World") cinema to international attention, establishing a mode of formally radical, forthrightly politicized cinema whose influence can still be felt today.

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    • Tuesday November 2
    • 9:15:00 PM
    • Tiff Bell LightBox 3

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Tomás Gutiérrez Alea's adaptation of Edmundo Desnoes' novel brought Latin American (and "Third World") cinema to international attention, establishing a mode of formally radical, Marxist-inflected cinema whose influence can still be felt today. Set in Havana in the aftermath of the Cuban Revolution, the film follows Sergio (Sergio Correri), a bourgeois writer who has remained in Cuba after his friends fled, as he detachedly observes the new reality around him, including his own relationships with two women. Employing a fractured editing style to reflect the jagged, non-chronological play of memory, Memories of Underdevelopment is an incisive character study of apathy and alienation in the midst of social and political turmoil.

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