One of the first Cuban films to achieve significant success abroad, Tomas Gutierrez Alea's intimate and densely layered MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT is a landmark work of the country's cinema. Left behind by his wife and family in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana and idly reflecting, 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, Gutierrez Alea developed a cinematic style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through experimental editing techniques, archival material and spontaneously shot street scenes. The film stands as a biting indictment of its protagonist's disengagement, and an extraordinary glimpse of life in post-revolutionary Havana. (Note courtesy of Janus Films.) DIR/SCR Tomas Gutierrez Alea; SCR Edmundo Desnoes, from his novel; PROD Miguel Mendoza. Cuba, 1968, b&w, 97 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED 

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