Memories of Underdevelopment
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea · 1968
Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s 1968 drama follows Sergio, a Havana intellectual who stays behind after the Revolution while his family flees. Narrated by Sergio himself, the film interweaves his relationships, memories, and political observations with documentary footage from the era. Shot economically and with formal rigour, it presents alienation not as existential angst but as the quiet persistence of privilege amid upheaval.