I Am Cuba (1964) Soy Cuba
I Am Cuba (1964)
DVDRip | MKV | 720x480 | x264 @ 2474 Kbps | 140 min | 2,67 Gb
Audio: Español AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Español, Русский
Genre: Drama, War
DVDRip | MKV | 720x480 | x264 @ 2474 Kbps | 140 min | 2,67 Gb
Audio: Español AC3 2.0 @ 192 Kbps | Subs: English, Español, Русский
Genre: Drama, War
Director: Mikhail Kalatozov (as Mijail Kalatozov)
Writers: Enrique Pineda Barnet, Evgeniy Evtushenko (as Evgueny Evtushenko)
Stars: Sergio Corrieri, Salvador Wood, José Gallardo
This study of Cuba–partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko–captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to country and back again, I AM CUBA examines the various problems caused by political oppression as well as by great discrepancies in wealth and power. Beginning in Havana in the pre-Castro era, we see how foreigners contributed to the city's prostitution and poverty; this sequence features dreamy, hallucinogenic camera work that creates a feeling of unease and dislocation. Then, in glorious images of palm tress and fertile land, the film looks at the sugar cane fields in the countryside, and the difficulties faced by peasants working the land. Finally, back in the city again, leftist students battle the police and a corrupt government–and pay a high price for their rebellion.
No less than thirty shots have been ripped off from this movie in the past five years, in films like Out of Sight, Boogie Nights, and Pulp Fiction. Watching "I Am Cuba" is an education in film technique and the beauty of the eponymous country. The picture's plot is abysmal. It is an exercise in cinematography. It is among the most influential movies, style-wise, that the American public has never seen and honestly brilliant on all terms.
Imagine taking a tour of Cuba, in 1964, through the eyes of four metaphors: luxury, poverty, revolution, and vagrancy. Times are changing, the country is changing. However, no matter how much anything changes, the sun-soaked gorgeousness of the land doesn't budge. The camera glides around like a member of the tour who has gone off on his own, looking at the four principles.
I Am Cuba is film that needs no hyperbole. It Is Great
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I Am Cuba (1964) Soy Cuba
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