About the film
Memories of Underdevelopment (Spanish: Memorias del Subdesarrollo) is a 1968 Cuban drama film directed and co-written by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea. The story is based on a novel by Edmundo Desnoes entitled Inconsolable Memories (Memorias del Subdesarrollo). It was Gutiérrez Alea's fifth film, and probably his most famous worldwide. The film gathered several awards at international film festivals. It is tied for the 169th best film of all time in the critics' ranking of the Sight & Sound 2022 poll. It was ranked by The New York Times as one of the 10 best films of 1968.
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How to watch it together from different places
Each of you opens Memories of Underdevelopment on your own account. Herae keeps the two players in sync, so a pause or a skip happens for both of you, and puts a video call in the corner of the film so you can see each other react.
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