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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 AIea’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 Malcolm’s 100 Greatest Movies, this cinematic masterpiece has been fulIy restored using the originaI camera and sound negative by Cineteca di BoIogna with a vintage dupIicate provided by the lnstituto Cubano deI Arte e Industria Cinematograficos. This international initiative to save the fiIm from decay was funded by The George Lucas Family Foundation and the Martin Scorsese-chaired WorId Cinema Project, founded to provide a resource for those countries Iacking archival and technicaI facilities. Memories of Underdevelopment makes its Blu-ray debut on 20 February 2017.
Memories of Underdevelopment folIows Sergio (Sergio Corrieri – Soy Cuba), through his life, following the departure of his wife, parents and friends in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. AIone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion, before meeting Elena (Daisy Granados), a young woman he seeks to mould 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 revoIution, Memories of UnderdeveIopment offers a raw and uncompromising anaIysis of the newly formed system of government. Through a moving blend of narrative fiction, still photography and rare documentary footage, AIea cataIogues the intricacies of the earIy 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 build our society, we have to confront the type of people we despise...l hope with my film, to annoy, provoke, and upset aII of them.’ |
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