Tricontinental Films has released the second Cuban feature film in the United States, Lucia by Humberto Solas. Begun in 1967, released in 1969, the film had already reaped its share of honors throughout the world, including the Gold Medal of the 1969 Moscow Film Festival, received critical acclaim, and passed on to the status of a classic by the time it first reached American audiences at the abortive Cuban Film Festival in March of 1972. Lucia has not suffered for being five years old. Little exposed to the revolutionary cinema emerging from the Third World, we find everyone of its manifestations fresh and striking. Our delight is comparable to that which was captured by a Cuban documentary film crew in a short entitled Por Primera Vez. This ten-minute film captures the expressions of children and adults in the remote mountains of Cuba who had never seen a motion picture before, as they watch Chaplin's antics in Modern Times. Now the roles are reversed: we are the uninitiated, the Cubans the pioneers in a new form of expression.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.