The Survivors is a darkly comic allegory that leaves no easy answers.
Gutiérrez Alea’s remorseless study of the delusions of class was dedicated to cinematic great Luis Buñuel. The Survivors follows the Orozco clan, a bourgeois family living in the Cuban countryside who decide to seal their mansion off from the world and the rising 1959 revolution. They’ve stockpiled food and hope to pass the time until the new government is overthrown. But as the years pass, the family begins to regress through increasingly primitive forms of social order: capitalism and feudalism, slavery and savagery—and worse. In Spanish with English subtitles. (130 mins., 4K DCP)
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$9 general public
$5 students
