Memories of Underdevelopment

Sergio is a bourgeois fish out of water, ambling through post-revolutionary Havana and attempting to adjust to an entirely new way of life after the rest of his family have fled to Miami.

Set in 1961 shortly after the Bay of Pigs misadventure, Memories of Underdevelopment is adapted from Edmundo Desnoes’ novel of the same name and offers a wry, beguiling take on political upheaval. Keeping its footloose, philandering protagonist at an ironic distance, the film deftly mixes and matches fiction and documentary to create a vivid sense of how memory functions.