Memories of Underdevelopment
A landmark of Cuban cinema that follows a bourgeois intellectual’s drifting reflections and growing alienation in post‑Bay of Pigs Havana.
One of the first Cuban films to achieve significant success abroad, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea’s Memories of Underdevelopment follows bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) after he is left by his wife and family in the aftermath of the Bay of Pigs. Wandering Havana, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually give way to a mounting sense of alienation.