Offscreen Notes
Humbero Solas: 1941-2008
One of the greatest Cuban directors of the post-revolution era passed away on September 17, 2008. Solas’s best known film, and perhaps masterpiece, was Lucia (1968), a tour de force, nearly three hour film divided into three stories covering important points in Cuban history: 1895, 1933, and 196?. Solas employs a different visual style for each section, leading some film critics to read the visual style as a reflection/commentary on the famous Solanas/Getino essay “Towards a Third Cinema.”
