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(Spanish audio, English subtitles) (Dvd-9 PAL) [1968]

Tomás G. Alea (AKA Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) | WRITERS: Tomás G. Alea (AKA Tomás Gutiérrez Alea), Edmundo Desnoes (Novela: Edmundo Desnoes) | CAST: Daysi Granados, Sergio Corrieri, Eslinda Núñez, Beatriz Ponchova, Gilda Hernández, René de la Cruz | CINEMATOGRAPHY: Ramón Suárez (B&W) | MUSIC: Leo Brouwer | RUNTIME: 94 min | GENRE: Drama, Comedia, Revolución Cubana, Foreign | COUNTRY: Cuba
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parents leave for the United States shortly after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 38-year-old playboy Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) resigns himself to a ritual of neurotic self-analysis. From his apartment, he observes the threat of foreign invasion that haunts the hazy, not-so-distant horizon. Bored and unemployed (he owns the apartment building he lives in), he chases after women all over Havana before finally meeting and bedding 16-year-old Elena (Daisy Granados), who he seemingly attempts to mold after his ex-wife by giving the young girl the woman's hand-me-downs. If Alea deliberately likens the virginal Elena to a country that welcomes its own defilement, Sergio's acquittal by the courts (he's accused to raping the girl by her parents) is no doubt indicative of the man's obsession with Cuba's own defilement of its Marxist loyalties.
political stagnation and Sergio's own sense of false enlightenment. The way Alea pieces together the film must count as its own act of political resistance: documentary footage calls attention to a complex individual-group dialectic tearing up the country from the inside while a series of self-referential, surrealist interruptions are alive with better-than-here hopefulness. "She makes me feel underdevelopment everywhere," says Sergio of Elena before visiting the home of Ernest Hemingway, who according to Sergio killed animals and mounted them on his walls so he wouldn't have to kill himself. One of Alea's most jarring framing devices situates Elena as an exotic specimen ("a beautiful Cuban señorita") trapped beneath the lens of American imperialism. Like Hemingway and Elena herself, it's only a matter of time before Cuba itself would self-destruct.
Que las contradicciones del burgués pueden reflejar como en un espejo las de la sociedad donde la burguesía ha llevado la voz cantante, lo demuestra esta historia de razonamiento e ironía. Una historia personal que hubiera sido intrascendente de no ocurrir en los vertiginosos días de la revolución, cuando todas las contradicciones se pusieron al rojo vivo. La película entrega un monólogo interior con mirada a la calle, como es la novela homónima de Edmundo Desnoes.
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