Memories of Underdevelopment (1968)

Original title

Memorias del subdesarrollo

Directed by

Tomás Gutiérrez Alea

Genre

drama film

Country

Cuba

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

12

Rating

7.2 of 10 from 92 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A middle-aged writer stays in Havana after the Cuban Revolution while his family and friends flee to Miami. He wanders the city observing the changes around him and trying to connect with a woman he meets.

introspectivemelancholicslow-pacedreflectivevisually starkcontemplativebittersweetdetached

What happens

Memories of Underdevelopment (Spanish: Memorias del Subdesarrollo) is a 1968 Cuban drama film directed and co-written by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes entitled Inconsolable Memories (Memorias del Subdesarrollo). It was Gutiérrez Alea's fifth film, and probably his most famous worldwide. The film gathered several awards at international film festivals. It was elected the 144th best film of all time in the Sight & Sound 2012 poll. It was ranked by The New York Times as one of the 10 best films of 1968. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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