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Cuban Cinema in the 1960's produced impressive new works, which drew on European cinematic techniques, but as Thompson and Bordwell note, "did not simply mimic the European art cinema." Thompson and Bordwell draw particular attention to two Cuban films made in 1968 that employ modernist techniques in different ways. Those films are

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Memories of Underdevelopment and Lucia

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Gutiérrez Alea’s masterpiece, "Memories of Underdevelopment is his portrait—visually explosive, formally pathbreaking, morally complex—of a disaffected man trying to reconcile himself, or not, to history. [...]

By ICAIC’s tenth birthday, films like Humberto Solás’s Lucía had become touchstones on an island where even rural people, thanks to mobile projectors, could also absorb the layered documentaries of Julio García Espinos.

Reference: Jelly-Schapiro, Joshua. “Memories of Underdevelopment: Imaging History.” The Criterion Collection, 2018

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