This film by Toms Gutirrez Alea is the most widely renowned work in the history of Cuban cinema. After his wife and family flee in the wake of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the bourgeois intellectual Sergio (Sergio Corrieri) passes his days wandering Havana in idle reflection, his amorous entanglements and political ambivalence gradually giving way to a mounting sense of alienation. With this adaptation of an innovative novel by Edmundo Desnoes, Gutirrez Alea developed a cinematic style as radical as the times he was chronicling, creating a collage of vivid impressions through the use of experimental editing techniques, archival material, and spontaneously shot street scenes. Intimate and densely layered, Memories of Underdevelopment provides a biting indictment of its protagonists disengagement and an extraordinary glimpse of life in postrevolutionary Cuba.

BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES
New 4K digital restoration, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack
New interviews with film critics B. Ruby Rich and Jos Antonio vora
New interview with novelist and screenwriter Edmundo Desnoes
Titn: From Havana to Guantanamera, a 2008 feature-length documentary on director Toms Gutirrez Aleas life and career
Segment from a 1989 audio interview with Gutirrez Alea
Segments from 2017 interviews with actor Daisy Granados and editor Nelson Rodrguez from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Visual History Collection archives
Trailer
New English subtitle translation
PLUS: An essay by author Joshua Jelly-Schapiro

• MPAA rating : NR (Not Rated)
• Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 3.2 ounces
• Audio Description: : English, Spanish
• Director : Toms Gutirrez Alea
• Media Format : Widescreen, Subtitled
• Run time : 1 hour and 38 minutes
• Release date : August 28, 2018
• Actors : Sergio Corrieri
• Subtitles: : English
• Studio : Criterion Collection
• Country of Origin : USA
• Number of discs : 1