Lucía
Humberto Solás · 1968
Humberto Solás’s 1968 Cuban triptych follows three women named Lucía across 1895, 1932, and 1961—each navigating love, violence, and constraint under radically different political orders. Shot in black-and-white by Jorge Herrero, with a sparse score by Leo Brouwer, it builds meaning through repetition, restraint, and precise spatial storytelling—not exposition or uplift. Its power lies in what it refuses: resolution, explanation, and the comfort of progress narratives.