| Memories of Overdevelopment | |
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| Directed by | Miguel Coyula |
| Produced by | David Leitner |
| Written by | Miguel Coyula based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes |
| Starring | Ron Blair Susana Pérez Lester Martínez |
| Music by | Dika Durbuzovic, Hayes Greenfield, Miguel Coyula |
| Distributed by | Pirámide |
| Release date(s) | 4 December 2010 |
| Running time | 112 minutes |
| Country | Cuba |
| Language | Spanish, English |
Memories of Overdevelopment (Spanish: Memorias del Desarrollo) is a 2010 Cuban film. Written and directed by Miguel Coyula, the story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes, also the author of the 1968 classic Memories of Underdevelopment. This independent film was produced by David Leitner and features Cuban actor, Ron Blair as the lead character. It is the first Cuban dramatic feature film with scenes filmed both in Cuba and the United States. After it's world Premiere at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, it went to gather several awards and honors. The International Film Guide described it as one of the best films Cuba has produced. [1]
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Sergio Garcet is an intellectual who abandons the Cuban Revolution and 'underdevelopment' behind only to find himself at odds with the ambiguities of his new life in the 'developed' world. A portrait of an alienated man, an outsider with no clear-cut politics or ideology: A stranger in a strange land struggling with old age, sexual desire and ultimately, the impossibility for the individual to belong in any society.
Highly episodical, the film's narrative is a collage of flashbacks, daydreams, and hallucinations comprising live-action, animation, and newsreel footage assembled to suggest the way personal memory works, subjectively and emotionally.