ABSTRACT
Upon finishing Memories of Underdevelopment, Alea approached Sergio Conrrieri (the actor who had played Sergio) with the idea of doing a film whose main character would be a committed intellectual, as opposed to a voyeur. Corrieri declined, in part because at the time he was working as director of the experimental Theater Group Escambray and in part because he did not want to play another brooding intellectual and run the risk of being pigeonholed into that kind of role. 1 Alea then turned his attention to other projects, but after three historical films, he was ready to pick up where he left off and face the present in all its complexity. The result was Up to a Certain Point, a film whose theme picks up where Memories left off and whose form comes from Sara Gómez' One Way or Another.
