ONE WAY OR ANOTHER (1977)
Special Features: 2K Restoration
[DE CIERTA MANERA]
A landmark of Cuban and feminist cinema, ONE WAY OR ANOTHER was the first feature from Cuba directed by a woman, Sara Gómez — and it was to be her last. Gómez, who got her start making short documentaries and assisting Agnès Varda and Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT), died while editing the film, leaving Alea and co-writer Tomás González Pérez to complete it. She shot the film with a handheld 16mm camera during the so-called quinquenio gris (Five Gray Years), the period in which the Cuban regime's Sovietization of the economy radically transformed all aspects of society: jobs, housing, health, education, women's rights and artistic censorship. Gómez brings a neorealist, even ethnographic sensibility to this love story of a middle-school teacher and a factory worker on the outskirts of Havana. Bravely unflinching in her depictions of race, class and gender inequality, she reveals a country attempting to wrest itself from its colonialist past while hurtling into an uncertain future. (Note courtesy of the Museum of Modern Art.) DIR/SCR Sara Gómez; SCR Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Tomás González Pérez, Julio García Espinosa. Cuba, 1977, b&w, 73 min. In Spanish with English subtitles. NOT RATED
2K digital restoration by Arsenal – Institut für Film und Videokunst in collaboration with Instituto Cubano de Arte e Industria Cinematográficos (ICAIC).
No AFI Member passes accepted.
Run Time: 73 Minutes
Opening Date: Monday, June 13, 2022
Genre: Drama
