Round 8: Tossup 11

A 1968 film explores the legacy of this country’s colonial period through three women of decreasing (15[1])social class who are all named Lucía. This country’s first female director died of asthma at age 31 while editing the docu-romance One Way or Another. The protagonist of a 1968 film from this country walks out on his teenage girlfriend due to her boredom at the “books and dead animals” in an American author’s house. In some of the 2000 photos of this country that make up a 1963 documentary co-narrated by Michel Piccoli, hand-drawn speech bubbles show the lyrics of Benny (*) Moré songs. In the 1960s, this country’s ICAIC board commissioned a film by Agnès Varda and produced films by Sara Gómez, Humberto Solás, and the director of Memories of Underdevelopment, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (“ah-LAY-ah”). A 1999 Wim Wenders documentary (10[1])depicts a Carnegie Hall concert of songs from this country, like “Chan Chan.” For 10 points, name this home country of Buena Vista Social Club. ■END■

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