| Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC) | Release Date: December 1, 1995 | CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION | ||
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Critic Reviews
It's impossible, when we watch "I Am Cuba" today, not to see some poignance
in its soaring shots, sadness to its thrilling vistas. [08 Dec 1995, p.C]
A great poetic epic that blends the stirring visual daring of Russia's cinema of revolution with an intoxicating Latin sensuality. [21 Jul 1995, p.F8]
The upshot is 141 minutes of visual rapture. [25 Aug 1995, p.L27]
A thrilling juxtaposition of bravura filmmaking and knee-jerk propaganda, this 1964 Soviet-Cuban coproduction is a rare successful combination of the aesthetic and the political. [19 Jan 1996, p.22]
Sergei Urusevsky's amazingly mobile cinematography is so expressive, and Kalatozov's heightened sense of drama so contagious, that this becomes one of those rare movies that makes you look at the world differently. [23 Jun 1995, p.H26]
For all of its genre awkwardness, "I Am Cuba" has to be considered as one of the most striking visual epics of the 1960s - in the same imaginative league as "Spartacus," "Lawrence of Arabia" and "Dr. Zhivago." [23 Jun 1995]
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 of 1964, a Cuban-Russian production poorly received in both countries at the time (in Cuba it was often referred to as “I Am Not Cuba”).
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The film is a marvelous visual and emotional record. Alas, at 2 1/2 hours, the shallow stories of "I Am Cuba" become trying and redundant. [01 Dec 1995, p.52]
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