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Born January 4, 1932, Huesca, Spain - Spanish film director.
He made his feature film debut with The Tramps (1960), which paved the way for neo-realism in Spanish cinema, a style that by that time had spread throughout Europe. He also appears in The Hunt (1966), a serious work analyzing the wounds inflicted by the civil war. This is the eerie story of the hunt of three Phalanx veterans from different backgrounds. The location, boring landscapes and contrasting cinematography of Luis Cuadrado made this film a reference point for subsequent films and brought great international success, confirmed by the Silver Bear at the International Film Festival in Berlin. In 1967, Saura began collaborating with producer Elias Kerekheta on Chilled Mint Cocktail, which kicked off a more famous period in his career. This is an original psychological study of the consequences of the Francoist repression at the end of the civil war - sexual enslavement and other shortcomings. The film's denouement is as brutal as in The Hunt, but now it takes place in the memory or in the more primitive instincts of the characters. The themes and imagery polished by this abstract style developed in collaboration with Kereheta, who sought to deceive censorship and highlight the flaws of Spanish society, and continued in the films Stress: Three, Three (1968), Nora (1969) and The Garden of Pleasure "(1970) .
Ana and the Wolves (1973) presents the closed world of a large estate of a Spanish aristocratic family. Rafaela Aparicio, mistress of this closed world, will reappear in the film "Mom turns 100" (1979) - a kind of sequel to the film "Ana and the Wolves." A foreign governess comes to the ancestral castle to teach the children of Juan, the owner of the house. The repressed desires of the three men break through after the arrival of this beautiful girl, whose manners are freer, and her sincerity awakens secret desires in the subconscious of men. Ana agitates the world of the closed and conservative family around her, thus exposing the problems that largely determined the Spanish society of the time. In the film Cousin Angelica (1974), which won a special jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival, the past (1936) and the present (1973) are combined, and this is shown by mixing the past tense, which is reproduced in the scenes of the film included in the framework of the same the same episode. Thus, the theme of the presence of the suffering of the past in the present is revealed - a classic technique of psychoanalysis. The presence of the past in the present also has such crushing consequences as the contrast between the childhood love of Luis and Angelica, who was perhaps her only love, and the adult relationship of Luis and Angelica, already married, in a situation that makes it impossible to restore the old emotional relationship. Memories and penetration of the past into the present were well shown already in the previous work "The Garden of Delights" (1970). Raise the Crow (1975), also awarded by the jury at the Cannes Film Festival, again uses the theme of memories, contrasting the gaze of the girl Ana with authoritarian characters. In the film Eliza, My Life (1977), based on a very ambitious idea of ??the relationship between cinema and literature, there is a continuous dialogue with the characteristic elements of cinema: image, sound, music and text. In a number of scenes, there is a deep connection between writing and visual composition. The diary that Fernando Rey's character maintains is the source of what we perceive, but it is complicated by his daughter, played by Geraldine Chaplin, as she reads this diary of her death. Intertwined with all this are references to El gran teatro del mundo by Calderon de la Barca, El Criticon by Baltasar Gracian and the Pygmalion myth we hear in the opera by Jean-Philippe Rameau (Pygmalion, 1748). The leitmotif of the film is the music of the First Gnossienne by the famous French composer of the early 20th century, Eric Satie, With the advent of democracy in Spain, Saura became an outstanding cinematographer of the Transition period (Transicion Espanola - the transition from Franco's dictatorship to a democratic and legal society). The film "Blindfolded" (1978) is a discourse on stages and injustice in Latin America. The following year, Saura takes on her first comedy, Mom Turns 100, revisiting the family from Ana and the Wolves with a comic feel and a sense of the end of the Franco era. The film achieves critical and public success, has been awarded at various film festivals and is nominated for an Oscar for Best Foreign Film.

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