De Cierta Manera (film)

De Cierta Manera One Way or Another is a 1974 Cuban romantic drama film. Directed by Sara Gmez, the film mixes documentarystyle footage with a fictional story that looks at the poor neighborhoods of Havana shortly after the Cuban Revolution of 1959. The film illustrates the history before the background of the development process in Cuba. It demonstrates how tearing down slums and building modern settlements does not immediately change the culture of the inhabitants. Gmez completed filming with Mario Balmaseda and Yolanda Cuellar just before her death technical work was finished by Toms Gutirrez Alea, Julio GarcaEspinosa y Rigoberto Lpez before its posthumous release.

The film does not contain action in the traditional sense, but it portrays, through an unusual mixture of documentarystyle modules and fiction, the conflicts in Cuban society that remain unsolved today.As De Cierta Manera reveals, Gmez was a revolutionary filmmaker with intersecting concerns the AfroCuban community, its cultural traditions including Abaku and Santera, womens issues, the treatment of marginalized sectors of society, and the role of family within the context of the revolution and workers rights. For its time, the film was extremely radical both in form and content. Hence, Sara Gmez remains one of the most significant filmmakers from Latin America. ........

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