Underplayed Gems

Salut les Cubains (1963)

Salut les Cubains poster
Directed by
Agnès Varda
Genre
documentary film
Country
France
Runtime
29 min
Rating
7.4 of 10 from 56 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

Agnès Varda assembles her own still photographs from a trip to Cuba in the early 1960s. The film captures daily life and the spirit of the country a few years after its revolution. It presents scenes of people, work, and celebration through a personal and poetic lens.

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What happens

Salut les Cubains est un court métrage français écrit et réalisé par Agnès Varda et sorti en 1963, d'après des photographies prises entre décembre 1962 et janvier 1963, soit quatre ans après la révolution cubaine. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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