Memories of Underdevelopment [Criterion Collection] ( Blu-ray ) 08/28/18

This film by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea is the most widely renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually giving way to a mounting sense of alienation. With this adaptation of an innovative novel by Edmundo Desnoes, Gutiérrez Alea developed a cinematic style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through the use of experimental editing techniques, archival material, and spontaneously shot street scenes. Intimate and densely layered, Memories of Underdevelopment provides a biting indictment of its protagonist’s disengagement and an extraordinary glimpse of life in postrevolutionary Cuba.

CONDITION: NEW

Actors: Sergio Corrieri
Directors: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
Format: Widescreen
Language: Spanish
Subtitles: English
Region: Region A/1
Number of discs: 1
Rated:
NR
Not Rated
Studio: Criterion Collection
DVD Release Date: August 28, 2018
Run Time: 98 minutes

Cast & Crew

Sergio Corrieri Sergio
Daisy Granados Elena
Eslinda Nunez Laura
Omar Valdes Actor

Technical Credits

Tom?s Guti?rrez Alea Director,Screenwriter
Leo Brouwer Score Composer
Ramon F. Suarez Cinematographer