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Umbracle a film by Pere Portabella
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Francoism--Drama.
- Francoism.
- Francoism--Social aspects--Drama.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (85 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. Grasshopper Film 2022
- Summary:
- As in VAMPIR-CUADECUC, UMBRACLE is a landmark 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. This film is made up of fragments (some are archive footage) that resound rather than progress by unusual links, with dejá vu scenes that promise us more but remain intensely unfinished. Jonathan Rosenbaum once said: "few directors since Resnais have played so ruthlessly with the unconscious narrative expectations to bug us". Learning from the feeling of strangeness caused by Rossellini as he threw well known actors into savage scenery in southern Europe. Portabella makes Christopher Lee wander around a dream-like Barcelona. Without a doubt Portabella's most structurally complex and most profoundly political film, that is ferociously poetic
- Participant:
- Christopher Lee, Jeannine Mestre.
- Notes:
- Description based on online resource; title from title screen
- OCLC:
- 1369209016
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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