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...murder was the third in a grisly series of spectacular political killings that have tainted the nation-saving image won by Argentina's military junta in their virtually bloodless ouster of the incompetent Isabel Peron last March. Three weeks ago, two former Uruguayan legislators, Zelmar Michelini and Hector Gutierrez Ruiz, were seized in separate commando-style raids. Their bodies were found four days later in an abandoned car, together with the corpses of two other Uruguayans who had earlier been involved with the Tupamaro guerrillas...
...military authorities have found it both embarrassing and difficult to account for the killings-and not only because the murderers have not been found. In the case of Gutierrez Ruiz, for example, the police did not intervene even though the kidnapers remained in his apartment-located just blocks from three heavily guarded embassies-for more than an hour. Even after the case made headlines, no one bothered to visit the apartment for fingerprints. When Gutierrez Ruiz's wife tried to file a kidnaping complaint with the police, she was not allowed to file for anything more serious than...
...Cesar Gutierrez, 1970, Detroit...
...difficult to see what anyone could find subversive in this intense, loosely structured narrative about the life of a middle-class intellectual in the days after the Castro revolution. The movie is complex, intelligent and totally lacking in hortatory propaganda. Tomas Gutierrez Alea is a director of cool passion and careful control. It is the measured force of Memories of Under development, as well as the novelty of its appearance, that has occasioned a critical reception somewhere between rapture and delirium. Yet just as it does not merit governmental suspicion, the movie cannot fully sustain that kind of response...
What is most ambitious in the film-the delicate correlation between political reality and subjective experience-is what works least well. What matters most, however, is Gutierrez Alea's bright, hard intelligence and his restlessness, his searching after both political and human resolution...