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    Rude Awakenings

    Nov 03, 2019 2 minutes
    RESTORATION ROW / By Max Nelson
    The films Tomás Gutiérrez Alea made before and after the twisting, ironic Memories of Underdevelopment show what a wide range of tones, styles, and modes of address he could use.

    Five films by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea: Death of a Bureaucrat (1966), A Cuban Fight Against Demons (1972),      

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