Lucía (1968)

Director:

Humberto Solás

Writers:

Julio García Espinosa (writer)
Nelson Rodríguez (writer)

Release Date:

October 1968 (Cuba)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

Traces episodes in the lives of three Cuban women, each named Lucía, from three different historical periods: the Cuban war of independence (with Spain), the 1930's, and the 1960's. |

Plot Keywords:

1930s | Betrayal | Sexual Repression | New Latin American Cinema | Revolution

Awards:

1 win

Cast

Raquel Revuelta	...	Lucia I
Eslinda Núñez	...	Lucia II
Adela Legrá	...	Lucia III
Eduardo Moure	...	Rafael
Ramón Brito	...	Aldo
Adolfo Llauradó	...	Tomas
Idalia Anreus
Silvia Planas
Flora Lauten
Rogelio Blain
Maria Elena Molinet
Aramís Delgado
Teté Vergara
Flavio Calderín

Runtime:

160 min

Country:

Cuba

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

Singapore:M18

Company:

Instituto Cubano del Arte e Industrias Cinematográficos (ICAIC)

Long, heavy-handed and sometimes embarrassing

I only watched the first episode and most of the second. The acting in the first (Revuelta particularly) was so over the top that the audience (at the University of Chicago) laughed. The politics are cartoonish and the characters tiresome. There are some nice genre scenes for the two eras, but even this is overdone and very one-dimensional as well as sometimes offensive (silly upper class women, naked black revolutionary warriors riding bareback, extended scenes of rape and violence). It is the worst Cuban film I have ever seen