What to expect
Gutiérrez Alea combines fiction, documentary fragments, archival material, voice-over, and jagged editing to place the viewer inside a consciousness the film continually questions. Historical immediacy and personal detachment become competing forms of evidence.
How to ease in
Do not assume the voice-over is the film’s judgement. Compare Sergio’s claims with the women he describes, the street material around him, and the edits that interrupt his preferred version of himself.
Heads-up
A bourgeois intellectual remains in Havana after his family leaves Cuba, observing the revolution while avoiding any stable commitment to it or to other people.
Sergio sounds most certain when the images have begun to disagree with him. I watch the collage give Havana more voices than his elegant detachment knows how to answer.
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Sergio sounds most certain when the images have begun to disagree with him. I watch the collage give Havana more voices than his elegant detachment knows how to answer.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Cast
- Sergio Corrieri — Sergio · Daisy Granados — Elena · Omar Valdés — Pablo · Eslinda Núñez — Noemi
- Screenplay
- Edmundo Desnoes · Tomás Gutiérrez Alea
- Production
- Miguel Mendoza · ICAIC
- Cinematography
- Ramón F. Suarez
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