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
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 4/5 |
A work of dazzling cinematographic invention that still has the ability to astound. Full Review |
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Politics, propaganda and poetry are whipped into an exotic cinematic cocktail in Mikhail Kalatozov's delirious tribute to the Cuban revolution... Full Review |
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9/10 |
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. Full Review |
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This loony, quasi-masterpiece is one of the great jagged edges of film history. Full Review |
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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 Full Review |
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4/5 |
a chest-thumping source of pride for the Soviet government, full of inciting imagery, enormous filmmaking prowess and the flavor of revolution Full Review |
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5/5 |
Considering the power of the film today, it’s hard to believe it fared poorly when audiences finally saw it. Full Review |
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4/4 |
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. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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The result is a technically astonishing mixture of optimistic Stalinist kitsch, agitprop and the epic Soviet style of the Twenties. Full Review |
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4/5 |
Politically naïve maybe, but it works beautifully as straight cinema. Full Review |
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4/4 |
The film is immensely entertaining and occasionally inspiring, a delirious combination of Slavic solemnity, Latin exoticism, Communist idealism and breathtakingly beautiful images. It is best enjoyed on the big screen. Full Review |
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Cinema’s singular dream, so often betrayed elsewhere, is to deliver such visions as this. Full Review |
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4/4 |
It is one of the most visually hypnotic films ever -- and that's not hyperbole. Full Review |
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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. Full Review |
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4/5 |
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5/5 |
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. Full Review |
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5/5 |
Propaganda that transcends its own numbskull earnestness... When it connects, it's as poweful as anything you've ever seen. Full Review |
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B+ |
The film fails to convince in its propaganda, but as a goofy view of a new Cuba it is heartily appreciated. Full Review |
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