The Spanish Film Academy today announced the death of Carlos Saura, recognized as “the last classic director of Spanish cinema”. The 91-year-old filmmaker and photographer was on the verge of the Goya Speedwell 2023 at the ceremony tomorrow, February 11. The cause of his death was said to be respiratory failure.

He had directed 50 films, and one more, the last one, the walls speakpremiered last Friday, February 3, and is celebrated by the Academy as a sign of his tireless activity and his love of the craft until the last moment. “Tomorrow, at the Andalusia Auditorium in Seville, the 37th edition of the Goya will commemorate the memory of an unrepeatable creator,” this organization published.

Film personalities from his country, such as the actor Antonio Banderas, They rushed to pay tribute through social networks. The President of the Spanish Government, Pedro Sánchez, also expressed his condolences.

In Saura’s filmography there are such classics as the garden of delights (1970), Breeding ravens (1975), Carmen (1983), The wizard of love (1983), To shoot! (with Banderas, in 1993) and the seventh day (2004).

He was famous for his method of shooting in chronological order to facilitate the work of the actors in the evolution of the characters, and for leaving the script in a minor role. But his photographic production is also memorable.

He was a personal friend of Luis Buñuel, worked with Stanley Kubrik in A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lindon And Eyes wide closed (he was also commissioned to direct the dubbing) and described Francisco Franco as “an ass, a closeted soldier,” in an interview for the magazine notein 2017.