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MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT
(Tomás Gutiérrez Alea / Cuba / 1968)
Hosted by Prof. Brent Devos
Wednesday, February 7, 2024
Movie Mill, 7:30 p.m.
$5 students/youth | $8 adults
$25 Season Pass available!
In 1962, while the rest of his Bourgeois family flees to Florida to escape the Cuban Revolution, Sergio stays behind and tries to make sense of the rapid transformation of Cuban society.
Winner of a Special Prize in 1973 by the National Society of Film Critics, USA.
“Memories of Underdevelopment remains among our most refractive and eloquent meditations on the power of moving images to at once capture history and shape it.”
- Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, Criterion Collection
Rated 14A for nudity and violence. View the trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVRgARoqILk
Contact:
Aaron Taylor | aaron.taylor2@uleth.ca | ulethbridge.ca/fine-arts/ulethbridge-film-series