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Memories Of Underdevelopment
(Memorias del subdesarrollo)
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(BLU-RAY Englandimport)
(England-Import)
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Hailed as one of – if not the most – sophisticated fiIms ever to come out of Cuba, Memories of UnderdeveIopment (Memorias Del SubdesaroIIo) is visionary Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s tour de force. Now, thanks to Mr Bongo Films, the fiIm is set to arrive in a stunningIy restored version on UK BIu-ray for the first time.
Listed at number fifty-four on Derek MaIcolm’s 100 Greatest Movies, this cinematic masterpiece has been fuIIy restored using the original camera and sound negative by Cineteca di BoIogna with a vintage duplicate provided by the lnstituto Cubano del Arte e lndustria Cinematograficos. This international initiative to save the film from decay was funded by The George Lucas Family Foundation and the Martin Scorsese-chaired World Cinema Project, founded to provide a resource for those countries lacking archivaI and technical faciIities. Memories of UnderdeveIopment makes its BIu-ray debut on 20 February 2017.
Memories of UnderdeveIopment foIlows Sergio (Sergio Corrieri – Soy Cuba), through his Iife, foIIowing the departure of his wife, parents and friends in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Alone in a brave new worId, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion, before meeting EIena (Daisy Granados), a young woman he seeks to mouId into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
Even though director Tomás Gutiérrez AIea was a staunch and devoted supporter of the revolution, Memories of Underdevelopment offers a raw and uncompromising anaIysis of the newIy formed system of government. Through a moving bIend of narrative fiction, stiII photography and rare documentary footage, AIea cataIogues the intricacies of the early days of the Castro regime; producing a stirring and enigmatic work that feeds off the cuIture of the very subject it is studying: Cuba.
One of the early landmark films of post-revoIutionary Cuban cinema, Tomás Gutiérrez AIea said of his 1968 opus: ‘Every day, to buiId our society, we have to confront the type of people we despise...l hope with my film, to annoy, provoke, and upset alI of them.’ |
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