This is MAJOR for me.
When I first went to college I was exposed to this lavish, multi-storied, collage of Cuba. Its the Cuba of my dreams: a vibrant, hip Cuba of the 1960’s. Everything in this movie looks lush, from the hipster 60’s parties to the migrant workers in the fields. This movie is highly politicized, as you will read in the blurb, but some of these tracking shots (that go for blocks up and down the sides of buildings and into a swimming pool) will blow you away.
Here’s the blurb on Netflix:
Filmed during the heyday of the nation’s revolution, four beautiful vignettes set in pre-Castro Cuba dramatize the need for insurrection, idealizing hardworking but exploited peasants and Fidel Castro’s staunch, freedom-loving revolutionaries. Although this landmark, politically charged film (which wasn’t released in the United States until 1995) hammers home a one-sided sentiment, it’s masterful filmmaking nonetheless.
