I Am Cuba
Drama
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1964
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An unabashed exercise in cinema stylistics, I Am Cuba is revolutionary rhetoric dressed up in the finest clothes. The film's four dramatic stories take place in the final days of the Batista regime; the first two illustrate the ills that led to the revolution, the third and fourth the call to arms which cut across social and economic lines.
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Runtime:
140 min
Release date:
26 Oct 1964
Country:
CU, RU, SU
Languages:
English, Spanish
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
2 wins & 1 nomination.
Top Critics Reviews
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
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:
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 one of the most visually hypnotic films ever -- and that's not hyperbole.
– G. Allen Johnson,
San Francisco Chronicle,
30 Sep 2005
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