The filmmaker, who was 91 years old, had made a world renown under the Franco dictatorship with films like “Peppermint struck” or “Cria Cuervos”.
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Spanish director Carlos Saura died Friday February 10 at the age of 91, announced The Spanish Academy of Cinema . The latter praised “one of the fundamental filmmakers in the history of Spanish cinema”. “His latest film, Las Paredes Hablan (the walls speak), was released on Friday, proof of his tireless activity and his love for his job until his last moments,” she said.
The filmmaker was to receive a goya of honor on Saturday during the Spanish cinema awards ceremony in Seville. A tribute will be paid to “the memory of an irreplaceable creator”, continued the academy.
Carlos Saura, born on January 4, 1932 in an artists environment, had made a world famous under the Franco dictatorship, with films like Peppermint Stri (1967) or Cria Cuervos (1975). He was, with his friend Luis Buñuel, the symbol of a Spanish cinema in resistance.
prolific – he made a total of fifty films -, SAURA was a filmmaker of the game and the imaginary, with sophisticated aesthetics, with a style that is both lyrical and documentary, centered on the fate of the most disadvantaged . He has often portrayed characters from the bourgeoisie, tormented by their past, floating between reality and fantasies.
But, from the death of Franco, in 1975, and the democratic transition which followed, this madman of music and dance has gradually moved on: hymns of love in tango and fado, Argentinian folklore and the jota, dance of its native Aragon, at the opera and, above all, to its dear flamenco, becoming, a little despite itself, an ambassador of Spanish culture.