Director Carlos Saura He has died this Friday at the age of 91, as confirmed by the Film Academy, just a day before he was scheduled to pick up the Goya of Honor.
The director, the last of our country’s classic filmmakers, has died of a respiratory insufficiency. “The Film Academy deeply regrets to announce the death of Carlos Saura, Goya de Honor 2023. Saura, one of the filmmakers Fundamentals of the history of Spanish cinemahas died today at his home at the age of 91, surrounded by his loved ones,” the organization reported through its Twitter account.
Born in 1932 in Huesca, Saura is the author of mythical films of Spanish cinema such as ‘La caza’, ‘La prima Angélica’, ‘Cría cuervos’ or ‘Ay, Carmela!’, among others.
At the end of last year, the Film Academy awarded him the honorary award that was going to be given to him at the ceremony that will take place tomorrow in Seville. It will be his son and his wife who collect the ‘big head’ posthumously, after reading a letter that the director had written to that effect.
According to what sources have told Efe to Saura’s family, whose health had worsened in the last eight days since the fall suffered last September, the filmmaker has been able to say goodbye to his family and friends and had left “everything organized” because he wanted to die at home. For this reason, and at the “express wish” of the director, his daughter and his son, Anna and Antonio —his wife was going to do it tomorrow— have gone to Seville to collect the award in his name .
Despite his state of health Saura premiered his latest work just a few days agothe documentary ‘The walls speak’where he reflects on the origin of the artistic drive.
With fifty cinematographic works to his credit, Carlos Saura knew how to perfectly dissect the human condition. She spoke of the resentment accumulated in ‘El séptimo día’ (2004), inspired by the crime in Puerto Hurraco, which earned her a Goya nomination for best director; of the unreasonableness of intolerance through the group of neo-Nazis in ‘Taxi’ (1996); of passion in ‘Carmen’ (1983); of greed in ‘The Garden of Earthly Delights’ (1970), and above all of the disastrous consequences of repressive and macho education of the dictatorship.
His last film was released in 2022, how much he had already told no less than 90 candles on his last birthday. It was the documentary ‘The walls speak’, with which Saura printed his particular vision of the origin of art.
Source: Lasexta
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