Memories of Underdevelopment [Criterion Collection] [Blu-ray]

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Release Date:	08/28/2018
UPC:	0715515219716
Original Release:	1968
Rating:	NR
Region Code:	A
Presentation:	[B&W, Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Mono]
Language:	English
Time:	1:38:00
Sales rank:	13,650

Special Features

New interviews with film critics B. Ruby Rich and Jos? Antonio ?vora; New interview with novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes; Tit?n: From Havana to "Guantanamera," a 2008 feature-length documentary on director Tom?s Guit?rrez Alea's life and career; Segment from a 1989 audio interview with Guti?rrez Alea; Segments from 2017 interviews with actor Daisy Granados and editor Nelson Rodr?guez from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Visual History Program collection; Trailer

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Sergio Corrieri	Sergio
Daisy Granados	Elena
Eslinda N??ez	Laura
Omar Vald?s	Actor
Ren? de la Cruz	Actor
Yolanda Far	Actor
Ofelia Gonz?lez	Actor,Actor
Jose Gil Abad	Actor
Daniel Jordan	Actor
Luis L?pez	Actor
Rafael Sosa	Actor
Beatriz Ponchova	Actor
Gilda Hernandez	Actor
Julio Vega	Actor
Eduardo Casado	Actor
Oscar ?lvarez	Actor
Jose Fraga	Actor
Juana Albuquerque	Actor
Marlene Acosta	Actor
Fausto Pinelo	Actor
Caelia Qui?ones	Actor
Jorge Marcia Cordova	Actor
Ren? Villarreal	Actor
Tom?s Guti?rrez Alea	Actor
Yolanda Farr	Actor
Eslinda Nunez	Actor
Omar Valdes	Actor
Leo Brouwer	Composer

Technical Credits

Tom?s Guti?rrez Alea	Screenwriter
Edmundo Desnoes	Screenwriter
Miguel Mendoza	Producer

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Editorial Reviews

Unlike I Am Cuba, the other great 1960s film to be produced in Castro-controlled Cuba, Memories of Underdevelopment is decidedly ambivalent about the effects of the Revolution on the island. Its main character, Sergio, is no political animal, though he derides his parents and wife and friends' desertion of their homeland for the bourgeois values of the United States. Placing himself above the masses (literally, he lives in a high-rise apartment from whose telescope-equipped balcony he watches over the city), whom he sees as blindly following Castro's policies as if they were only the latest fad in clothing or soft drinks, Sergio fashions himself a philosopher. In fact, he is a lothario first and a thinker second, his wanderings through the city having less to do with reflection than mounting a somewhat desperate quest for ladies to seduce. Sergio's memories of past loves, especially a German woman he almost married, occupy more of his time, especially after a near-disastrous conquest of a young innocent, and by the end of the film, we sense that he's slipping off into a Peter Pan world of denial on many levels. Filmmaker Tomás Gutiérrez Alea offers a thoughtful and often witty minority report on the state of Cuban thinking at a time, between the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis, when Cubans might be expected to pull together in the face of threats from the United States.

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