Death of a Bureaucrat (Alea, 1966): Garden Cinema, 8pm
This film is part of the Screen Cuba season at Garden Cinema and will
be followed by a Q&A with Michael Chanan, filmmaker and renowned Cuban
cinema specialist, and Tania Delgado, director of the Havana Film Festival.
Chicago Reader review:
A pleasant, very funny social comedy with a faint black lining. The film is full of hommages to silent comics—a Laurel and Hardy scene from Two Tars,
some precipice tottering from Harold Lloyd—but its taste for quaint
caricature and topical satire places it closer to the Ealing comedies
made in Britain in the 50s. Amazingly, it was actually made in Cuba in
1966, by a director, Tomas Gutierrez Alea, who later traded his comic
sense for social allegory (Memories of Underdevelopment, The Last Supper).
Dave Kehr
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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