Richard Brody on the work of Sara Gómez, the first woman to direct movies in Cuba, whose revolutionary films are appearing on the Criterion Channel.
Gómez, born in 1942, into a family of middle-class professionals, was the first female Cuba n director—indeed, even now the only Cuba n woman to have made a feature—and women’s lives and conflicts are at the center of her films. She was also Black, and her work emphasized the significance of Black culture in Cuba , along with the discrimination that Black Cuba ns faced.
And that is what life is about: suffering, love, laughter, all of that.” These working women declare that what’s needed is practical change in the domestic sphere. Men must take an equal role in housework and child-rearing, in order to put an end to the “slavery” that women endure at home.
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