In the swirling heat of Havana’s 1960s, amid the fervor of revolution and rupture, Cuban director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea released Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del subdesarrollo, 1968)—a film that would forever transform the landscape of Latin American cinema. Crafted with intellectual sharpness and emotional ambivalence, the film dared to interrogate its own revolution with eyes […]