Audacious, thrilling, erotic (and in three languages, no less), I Am Cuba is a lost masterpiece of filmmaking finally seeing the light of day 30 years after its production.
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02/21/01
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
It's a vibrant, joyous piece of technical accomplishment that's probably one of the most relentlessly innovative films you'll ever see.
11/22/02
A work of dazzling cinematographic invention that still has the ability to astound.
04/20/09
Some of the most exhilarating camera movements and most luscious black-and-white cinematography you'll ever see inhabit this singular, delirious 141-minute communist propaganda epic.
09/17/07
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 CriticThis loony, quasi-masterpiece is one of the great jagged edges of film history.
11/29/07
While it has its clumsy elements, there is no denying its remarkable cinematic impact.
02/21/01
Considering the power of the film today, it’s hard to believe it fared poorly when audiences finally saw it.
11/19/07
No review available.
07/06/05
Politically naïve maybe, but it works beautifully as straight cinema.
12/30/06
Propaganda that transcends its own numbskull earnestness... When it connects, it's as poweful as anything you've ever seen.
06/26/04
a chest-thumping source of pride for the Soviet government, full of inciting imagery, enormous filmmaking prowess and the flavor of revolution
11/20/07
A work of dazzling cinematographic invention that still has the ability to astound.
11/26/02
It really is a neglected classic.
12/02/02
Brilliant work of Soviet propaganda.
02/21/01
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 CriticIt 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 CriticThe result is a technically astonishing mixture of optimistic Stalinist kitsch, agitprop and the epic Soviet style of the Twenties.
01/27/07
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
The film fails to convince in its propaganda, but as a goofy view of a new Cuba it is heartily appreciated.
01/27/04
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