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GUANTANAMERA
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This road movie, farce, satire, picaresque picture, black comedy, and bedroom    farce about life in Cuba is the last film by the maestro of Cuban Cinema,        Tomas Gutierrez Alea (Strawberry and Chocolate). Intertwining the          stories of two groups, members of a funeral procession and some truck drivers  making the journey on the road to Havana, the film stars Alea's widow and      leading lady, Mirtha Ibarra, as ex-economics professor Georgina, who, with her husband, bureaucrat Adolfo (Carlos Cruz), tests a new funeral system with the    body of Aunt Yoyita, an elderly singing star who returned to Cuba to visit an  old flame and dropped dead in his arms. In Spanish with English subtitles.     Tomas Gutierrez Alea---Cuba/Spain---1994---104 mins.
LAST SUPPER (ALEA), THE
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A celebrated Cuban film photographed with a lush palette, this "startlingly beautiful" (The New Yorker) masterpiece is based on an incident from 18th century Cuban history. In what amounts to a cinematic moral tale, a pious slaveholder decides to purify his soul and instruct his slaves in the glories of Christianity by inviting 12 of them to participate in a reenactment of the Last Supper. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Tomas Gutierrez Alea---Cuba---1976---110 mins.
MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT
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A breakthrough Cuban film--the first to be released in the U.S. Set in the 1960s, the film centers on a Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic (or lazy) to leave for Miami, but too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society. The film is a remarkable demonstration that artistic subtlety, political commitment, and superior entertainment need not be incompatible. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Tomas Gutierrez Alea---Cuba---1968---104 mins.
TWELVE CHAIRS/ LAS DOCE SILLAS
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Before Mel Brook's adaptation of The Twelve Chairs, Tomas Gutierrez Alea   directed this version of the classic story set during the aftermath of Cuba's    revolution, a time when the property of the rich was being confiscated by the    state. On her deathbed, a wealthy woman reveals to her son-in-law, Hipolito,   that one of the 12 family chairs taken from her villa by the authorities hides her fortune in jewelry. Hipolito embarks on an hilarious journey to track down the treasure. In Spanish with English subtitles.                                 Tomas Gutierrez Alea---Cuba---1962---90 mins.