Carlos Saura Atares (1932-2023) told stories as only those who know how to observe can. With the precision of a surgeon, his filmography is a perfect dissection the human condition. She told us about resentment accumulated in the seventh day (2004), inspired by the crime in Puerto Urraco, which gave him his second Goya for Best Director; of the unreason of the intolerance through the group of neo-Nazis from Cab (nineteen ninety six); of the passion in Carmen (1983); of the greed in the garden of delights (1970), and above all of the disastrous consequences of the repressive and macho education of the dictatorship.
With The hunt (1966) seemed to tell the world “I’m here to stay.” After her came her recognition thanks to the angelic cousin (1974) and hurry up (1981)winner of the Berlin Festival and one of the masterpieces of quinqui cinema.
In total, it has fifty works films to his credit throughout his 60 years of racinga, between feature films, shorts, documentaries and musicals.
He Aragonese filmmaker he combined traditional cinema with musicals, the one that he said was parallel to his “other films”, visual prodigies around flamenco, fado or, among other genres, tango and with it one of the three times he was nominated for Best Foreign Film at the Oscars (Tango (1998) competed for Argentina, while Carmen and Mom turns 100 (1979) did it for Spain).
He recognized that he rarely saw his cinema once it was released, that there were even films that he had never seen since he made them.
In addition to the Goya for the seventh dayhe obtained another two for directing and for the script adapted from Ay Carmela! (1990).
Privately, it was his relationship with geraldine chaplin the best known, with whom he had offspring and who starred in several of his films. A very cinematic marriage, so much so that they met at the Berlin Festival just as she was triumphing in the success of what is now considered one of the great stories of cinema, Doctor Zhivago (1965).
But as a total artist, Saura also left his mark on us in literature and theater: already at a later stage he was the author of novels, scripts and photography books and has directed operas and theater plays, The great theater of the world (2013), by Pedro Calderón de la Barca, or more recently The party of the goat (2019-2021), the work of Mario Vargas Llosa. The golden brooch of him in the theater was with lorca de saura (2022), presented just a few months ago, where the indefatigable director He assured that he had “several more projects”.
Goya of Honor 2023
just the 2023 edition of the Goya intends to pay the homage deserved by this director after 60 years of film career. The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences of Spain decided to grant the Goya of Honor 2023 to Carlos Saura for his extensive career that reached almost his last days.
His last film was released in 2022, when he had already counted no less than 90 candles on his last birthday. was the documentary the walls speak, with which Saura printed his particular vision of the origin of art. A movie that will sound even more special in these Goya Awardsan edition that aspired, and now with more reason, to be the night of Saura.
Source: Lasexta
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