DVD
Memories of underdevelopment = Memorias del subdesarrollo
Call Number
- DVD FOREIGN (CEN)
Edition
Two-DVD special edition.
Languages
In Spanish, with English subtitles.
Performers
Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Omar Valdes, Eslinda Nunez, Beatriz Ponchova, Rene De La Cruz.
Publication Information
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2018]
Physical Description
2 videodiscs (98 minutes) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded sheet (color illustrations ; 19 cm.)
Audience
Not rated.
Summary
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 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.
Notes
Title from container.
Based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes.
Originally released as a motion picture in 1968.
Special features: New 4K digital restoration ; new interviews with film critics B. Ruby Rich and Jose Antonio Evora ; new interview with novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes ; Titón: from Havana to "Guantanamera," a 2008 feature-length 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 Nelson Rodríguez from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' visual history collection ; trailer ; new English subtitle translation.