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Vincent Canby, New York Times: Here is a film about alienation that is wise, sad and often funny, and that never slips into the bored and boring attitudes that wreck Antonioni's later films. Read more
Don Druker, Chicago Reader: A thoroughly mature and original creation. Read more
Michael Joshua Rowin, L.A. Weekly: The eventual worldwide recognition of Underdevelopment as one of Cuba's finest films speaks as much for the frozen moment it captures as for its unimpeachable quality. Read more
Michael Sragow, New Yorker: This audacious, sensual portrait of an alienated intellectual in the early days of Castro's Cuba, released in 1968, is one of the great movies of its era. Read more