Death of a Bureaucrat (Alea, 1966): BFI Southbank, NFT1, 6pm
This screening will be introduces by Ketty Rodríguez, Founder & Artistic Director of the London Latino Film Festival.Time Out review:
This arresting early work by one of Cuba's foremost film-makers is a
black comedy about institutionalised bureaucracy at its most pedantic.
After a model factory worker is killed in an accident at work, he's
buried with his union card as a mark of eternal solidarity; trouble is,
when his wife applies for a pension, she's told she must present the
card before she can get any money - and there's a law forbidding
exhumation within the first two years of burial. It's a surprising piece
to have been made in the Cuba of the mid-'60s, but the laughs come as
much from a Buñuelian sense of absurdity as they do from any outright
criticism of Castro's regime.
Trevor Johnston
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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