Memories of Underdevelopment
Alternate title(s): Inconsolable Memories, Historias del subdesarrollo
Foreign Title: Memorias del subdesarrollo
Date: January 01, 1968 to December 31, 1968
Dates Note: 1968
Country of Origin:
Cuba
Place of Origin: Cuba
Languages:
Spanish
Color: B&W
Silent: No
Based On: Inconsolable Memories by Edmundo Desnoes
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Curator Notes
Film Series/Exhibition Title:
Ambassador of Cinema: Tom Luddy’s Lasting Influence at BAMPFADescription:
The Cuban cinema reached full maturity with this classic study of a bourgeois writer who stays in Cuba after the revolution, despite his alienation from the new society and the loss of all his friends to Miami. Based on novelist/screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes’s autobiographical Inconsolable Memories, Memories of Underdevelopment became the first feature-length film from postrevolutionary Cuba to be released in the United States, to high acclaim. Peter Schjeldahl in the New York Times called it “a profound, noble film . . . beautifully understated, sophisticated and cosmopolitan in style, fascinating in its subtlety and complexity.”
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