presented by A.N.S.W.E.R.
Thursday, November 13, 2003, 8:00 pm, $5
This Soviet/Cuban collaboration is a kaleidoscopic expose of Cuba during
the time of Batista. It portrays a land of diametric opposites – great
wealth and abject poverty. The political agenda is unapologetic. Within a
structure of four short stories of hardship and abuse, it presents the
crushing exploitation of Cuba¹s people and resources, revealing the
underlying causes of Castro¹s revolution. Epic tracking shots and an array
of images in high contrast black and white poetically convey the
conflicting lifestyles of the monied elite and the barely subsisiting
underclass. Lyrical, joyous yet harsh and unwavering, Soy Cuba is a
dazzling work. (141m)
Dir. Mikhail Kalazov Cuba/USSR 1964