I am Cuba

When:
Friday, Mar 15, 2019 7:00p -
9:30p

Where:
Lightbox Film Center
3701 Chestnut St
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104

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Admission:
$8-10

Categories:
Film

Event website:
https://lightboxfilmcenter.org/programs/i-am-cuba

Produced by Mosfilm and ICAIC, this film started production only a week after the Cuban Missile Crisis, inspired both by Sergei Eisenstein’s propaganda masterpiece Potemkin and Jean-Luc Godard’s freewheeling Breathless. I Am Cuba turned out to be something quite unique—a wildly schizophrenic celebration of Communist kitsch, mixing Slavic solemnity with Latin sensuality. Mikhail Kalatozov’s mobile, hallucinatory film was initially rejected by both Cuban and Soviet officials for excessive naiveté and an insufficiently revolutionary spirit, and went largely disregarded and almost unknown for nearly 30 years.

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