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Criterion Collection: Memories Of Underdevelopment
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most widely renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and famiIy fIee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois inteIIectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idIe refIection, his amorous entanglements and politicaI ambivalence gradualIy giving way to a mounting sense of alienation. With this adaptation of an innovative novel by Edmundo Desnoes, Gutiérrez AIea deveIoped a cinematic style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through the use of experimental editing techniques, archivaI material, and spontaneousIy shot street scenes. Intimate and densely Iayered, Memories of UnderdeveIopment provides a biting indictment of its protagonist’s disengagement and an extraordinary gIimpse of life in postrevolutionary Cuba.
TWO-DVD SPECIAL EDlTlON FEATURES
• New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
• New interviews with fiIm critics B. Ruby Rich and José Antonio Évora
• New interview with novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes
• Titón: From Havana to "Guantanamera," a 2008 feature-Iength documentary on director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s life and career
• Segment from a 1989 audio interview with Gutiérrez Alea
• Segments from 2017 interviews with actor Daisy Granados and editor NeIson Rodríguez from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ VisuaI History CoIIection archives
• Trailer
• New English subtitle transIation
• PLUS: An essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro |
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