Memories of underdevelopment = Memorias del subdesarrollo / directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea ; produced by Miguel Mendoza ; screenplay by Edmundo Desnoes, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea.
Edition:
Widescreen. Two-DVD special edition.
Publisher:
The Criterion Collection,
Copyright Date:
2018
Description:
2 videodiscs (98 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Based on the novel by Edmundo Desnoes. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1968. Wide screen (1.66:1). Special features include new interviews; 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 archives; trailer; essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro. Sergio Corrieri, Daisy Granados, Eslinda Núñez, Omar Valdés, René de la Cruz.
Contents:
Theatrical trailer -- Memorias del subdesarrollo -- Theatrical trailer -- (segment of an interview with the film editor recorded for the Visual History Program at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; 2017) Nelson Rodríguez (interview with the film critics; 2018) -- Edmundo Desnoes (interview with the author of the novel Memorias del subdesarrollo; 2018) -- Titón : from Havana to "Guantanamera" (documentary by Mirtha Ibarra, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, presenting his life and career; 2008) -- Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (segment from an audio interview with the director by Silvia Oroz for her 1989 book about the director) -- Daisy Granados (segment of an interview with the actress recorded for the Visual History Program at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; 2017) -- Nelson Rodríguez (segment of an interview with the film editor recorded for the Visual History Program at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences; 2017)
Summary:
Sergio, through his life following the departure of his wife, parents and friends in the wake of the Bay of Pigs incident. Alone in a brave new world, Sergio observes the constant threat of foreign invasion while chasing young women all over Havana before finally meeting Elena, a young virgin girl he seeks to mold into the image of his ex-wife, but at what cost to himself?
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