This loony, quasi-masterpiece is one of the great jagged edges of film history.
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11/29/07
I Am Cuba (1964)
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Reviews Counted:31
Fresh:31
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.6/10
Runtime: 3 hrs 20 mins
Genre: Foreign Films
Synopsis: This Russian-made study of Cuba, partially written by renowned poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, captures the island just before it made the transition to a post-revolutionary society. Moving from city to... [More]
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Reviews for I Am Cuba
The resulting assault is so epicly impassioned it's less about Cuba per se than the fusillade of movement, shadow, light, vertigo, and landscape on the viewer's tender optic nerves.
09/13/05
Top CriticPolitics, propaganda and poetry are whipped into an exotic cinematic cocktail in Mikhail Kalatozov's delirious tribute to the Cuban revolution...
02/05/08
Being suppressed by those who wanted [I Am Cuba] made in the first place is a vindication of sorts. Mere propaganda only reinforces the status quo. True art is revolutionary.
12/12/07
It really is a neglected classic.
12/02/02
In a sense, it's a movie about looking past surfaces to see what's in front of you. It takes the time to look around and discovers majesty, beauty and pathos everywhere it turns.
02/21/01
Top CriticAs an example of lyrical black and white filmmaking, it is still stunning. If you see it, try to figure out how the camera floated down that wall.
02/21/01
Top CriticPropaganda that transcends its own numbskull earnestness... When it connects, it's as poweful as anything you've ever seen.
06/26/04
The result is a technically astonishing mixture of optimistic Stalinist kitsch, agitprop and the epic Soviet style of the Twenties.
01/27/07
I Am Cuba is a cinephile's wet dream, a collage of Herculean feats of technical wizardry that would be easy to dismiss if it wasn't so humane.
11/17/07
One of the most stylistically vigorous films of all time.
02/21/01
Top CriticBrilliant work of Soviet propaganda.
02/21/01
While it has its clumsy elements, there is no denying its remarkable cinematic impact.
02/21/01
It is a dream of life in which everything is reduced to black and white. Or as the rhetoric used to go, you are either part of the problem or part of the solution. Nothing was ever quite that simple.
01/15/05
Top CriticA work of dazzling cinematographic invention that still has the ability to astound.
04/20/09
A work of dazzling cinematographic invention that still has the ability to astound.
11/26/02
It is one of the most visually hypnotic films ever -- and that's not hyperbole.
09/30/05
Top CriticConsidering the power of the film today, it’s hard to believe it fared poorly when audiences finally saw it.
11/19/07
visual impressions that will forever remain embedded in your mind's eye%u2014just as much as Picasso's La Guernica communicates the horrors of war
11/23/07
Politically naïve maybe, but it works beautifully as straight cinema.
12/30/06
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