Movies: Films 59

  • 1962
    Viridiana

    Viridiana (1962)

    Viridiana

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    Viridiana is preparing to start her life as a nun when she is sent, somewhat unwillingly, to visit her aging uncle, Don Jaime. He supports her; but the two have met only once. Jaime thinks Viridiana resembles his dead wife. Viridiana has secretly des...

    Viridiana
  • 1960
    The Wheelchair

    The Wheelchair (1960)

    The Wheelchair

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    Don Anselmo, a retired old man, decides to buy a motorized disabled stroller since all his pensioner friends own one. His family strongly refuses him to purchase the vehicle, so don Anselmo decides to take extreme measures to achieve his goal…...

    The Wheelchair
  • 1972
    Vampir Cuadecuc

    Vampir Cuadecuc (1972)

    Vampir Cuadecuc

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    An atmospheric essay, which is an alternative version of Count Dracula, a film directed by Jess Franco in 1970; a ghostly narration between fiction and reality....

    Vampir Cuadecuc
  • 2007
    The Silence Before Bach

    The Silence Before Bach (2007)

    The Silence Before Bach

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    This latest feature from the eccentrically experimental Catalan director Portabella is a beautiful, sometimes faintly bonkers celebration and contemplation of the role Bach’s music plays in the world today. Blending historical reconstruction with ver...

    The Silence Before Bach
  • 1960
    The Delinquents

    The Delinquents (1960)

    The Delinquents

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    A group of friends who are struggling to survive in the slums of Madrid commit petty crime in order to finance the debut as a bullfighter of one of them....

    The Delinquents
  • 1977
    General Report

    General Report (1977)

    General Report

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    How does a country go from a dictatorship to a democracy? A detailed report on the political representation in the heart of the Spanish Transition, only a few months after General Franco’s death, when the sincere democratic vocation of Spanish people...

    General Report
  • 1970
    El desastre de Annual

    El desastre de Annual (1970)

    El desastre de Annual

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    El desastre de Annual
  • 1969
    Nocturne 29

    Nocturne 29 (1969)

    Nocturne 29

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    Portabella’s first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although like all his early films, it circulated only in an underground fashion. Eschewing dialogue, the director cons...

    Nocturne 29
  • 1990
    Warsaw Bridge

    Warsaw Bridge (1990)

    Warsaw Bridge

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    A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor--three characters, two couples--attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has just won the prize for his book "Warsaw Bridge." The winner answers the journalist's questions one after a...

    Warsaw Bridge
  • 1973
    Miro Forja

    Miro Forja (1973)

    Miro Forja

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    The film was conmissioned by the Galeria Maeght to commemorate the Joan Miró exhibit organized by the French Minsitry of Cultural Affairs in the Grand Palais in Paris that opened on May 17, 1974. The film, that took five days to shoot, shows the smel...

    Miro Forja
  • 1974
    The Supper

    The Supper (1974)

    The Supper

    5.21974HD

    Five ex-political prisoners meet secretly in a country house one afternoon in 1974 on the same day that Salvador Puig Antich is executed, to talk about their experiences in prison....

    The Supper
  • 1967
    Don't Count On Your Fingers

    Don't Count On Your Fingers (1967)

    Don't Count On Your Fingers

    5.81967HD

    Pere Portabella’s first work as a director starts with the following phrase: “defeated…but not conquered”. This may or should be taken as an allusion to the technical K.O. taken by Portabella from Franco’s regime during the sixties as regards his wor...

    Don't Count On Your Fingers
  • 1972
    Umbracle

    Umbracle (1972)

    Umbracle

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    This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco dictatorship. “Montage of attractions” and Brechtianism in strong doses. Umbracle is made up o...

    Umbracle
  • 2015
    General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe

    General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe (2015)

    General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe

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    Portabella is putting forward the second part of one of his historic works, the “General report on certain matters of interest for a public screening”, which peeked out in 1976 at the start of the political transition process after Franco’s death. Th...

    General Report II: The New Abduction of Europe
  • 1973
    Miró tapís

    Miró tapís (1973)

    Miró tapís

    51973HD

    Commissioned by the Maeght Gallery with the exhibition of Joan Miró, organized by the French Ministry of Cultural Affairs at the Grand Palais, which opened on May 17, 1974 in Paris. This film was shot in six days in Montroig del Camp (at the Miró) an...

    Miró tapís
  • 1970
    Play Back

    Play Back (1970)

    Play Back

    4.41970HD

    Short film by Spanish/Catalan film maker Pere Portabella....

    Play Back
  • 2008
    Mudanza

    Mudanza (2008)

    Mudanza

    5.82008HD

    "Mudanza" (Removal) came to be made after the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist was asked for involvement in a project in the Huerta de San Vicente, the home and museum of the García-Lorca family in Granada. The film records the removal of furniture and ob...

    Mudanza
  • 2006
    No al no: Visca el piano!

    No al no: Visca el piano! (2006)

    No al no: Visca el piano!

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    Carles Santos plays several of his pieces on the piano. This film was made for the exhibit on Carles Santos Visca el piano! held at the Miro Foundation in the summer of 2006....

    No al no: Visca el piano!
  • 2015
    No estamos solos

    No estamos solos (2015)

    No estamos solos

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    A choral history of the people who shake up life every day in different Spanish cities to try to change things. Through their lives we discover the reason and strength of social activism in our country....

    No estamos solos
  • 1964
    Autour des salines

    Autour des salines (1964)

    Autour des salines

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    Autour des salines