I Am Cuba
Drama
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1964
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A study in contrasts set in and around Havana that explores Cuba's 1959 revolution: a young woman's fascination with the excess of an American-owned casino leads to her downfall in the eyes of her street vendor boyfriend; a tenant farmer revolts the only way he knows how, attacking the land he works; university students gain first-hand knowledge of political upheaval; and, in the hills outside the city, the members of a poor peasant family are patriotically swept up into the burgeoning revolt.
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Runtime:
141 min
Release date:
26 Oct 1964
Country:
CU, SU
Languages:
English, Russian, Spanish
Budget:
$600,000
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination total
Top Critics Reviews
fresh:
Some of the most exhilarating camera movements and most luscious black-and-white cinematography you'll ever see inhabit this singular, delirious 141-minute communist propaganda epic.
– Jonathan Rosenbaum,
Chicago Reader,
17 Sep 2007
fresh:
It is one of the most visually hypnotic films ever -- and that's not hyperbole.
– G. Allen Johnson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 Sep 2005
fresh:
The resulting assault is so epicly impassioned it's less about Cuba per se than the fusillade of movement, shadow, light, vertigo, and landscape on the viewer's tender optic nerves.
– Michael Atkinson,
Village Voice,
13 Sep 2005
fresh:
It is a dream of life in which everything is reduced to black and white. Or as the rhetoric used to go, you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Nothing was ever quite that simple.
– Stephen Holden,
New York Times,
15 Jan 2005
fresh:
In a sense, it's a movie about looking past surfaces to see what's in front of you. It takes the time to look around and discovers majesty, beauty and pathos everywhere it turns.
– Carina Chocano,
Los Angeles Times,
21 Feb 2001