Daisy Granados,
Sergio Corrieri,
Eslinda Nunez,
Omar Valdes,
Rene de la Cruz
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A bourgeois intellectual finds himself ambivalent to the changes going on in revolutionary Cuba.
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Inspired by French nouvelle vague and Italian neorealism, Gutierrez Alea tells a picaresque and penetrating character study of a Cuban bourgeois trying to find his identity among the people living in the recently established socialist regime of Fidel Castro. A look on the underde...( read more)
I was reading through my Reviews, when I realized that not only have I NOT graced the Profile with a Review of a Cuban Film --- but, I don't have anything by TOMAS GUTIERREZ ALEA even referenced.
What was I thinking?!?! I should be thrashed!!!!!
For MEMORIES is that rare ...( read more)
Está bien hecha. Cine latinoamericano de altas pretensiones. Las actuaciones son convincentes por naturales y la trama es llevada a buen ritmo.
I have seen the movie in Spanish with Portuguese subtitles (which I don't read or speak), and although I do know some Spanish, I didn't understood everything. But I still can say that it was a great film involving Cuban politics and a man looking for his own place in this new rev...( read more)
una fotografía muy bien lograda y una historia que toma mucho mas sentido con la revolución
LETTERBOX. Una obra maestra. Excelente matrimonio entre cine narrativo e ideológico. / A masterpiece. Excellent marriage of narrative and ideological cinema.
I'm working with Daisy Granados in a play right now so it's interesting to see her back in the day.
One of the greatest achievements in Latin cinema, that's it. In perhaps the greatest decade for art cinema, "Memories of Underdevelopment" was one of Latin America's strongest statements, and it still is. It's bleak, oppresive, acid, unnerving. Its characters are well portrayed, ...( read more)
This film reminds me a little of "Amores Perros", a similarly desperate film. I found the central character very sympathetic to me, I could not guess his actions, but I could feel why he does them. A film very beautiful, the camera stunning and the character development emphasiz...( read more)
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