“Un solo palo no hace monte”: Notes on the Otherwise’s Inevitable Infecundity

We are referring to Julio García Espinosa’s Son o no son (1978). The fragments of Hamlet’s monologue come from the first few minutes of the film.

Julio García Espinosa, “For an imperfect cinema,” Jump Cut, no. 20 (1979): 24–26 →

This alludes to the genre of the son, but refers more directly to the title of Nicolás Guillén’s 1947 poetry collection, El Son Entero.

García Espinosa, “For an imperfect cinema.” Translation slightly altered.