Cinema
Arcilla indócil
Carlos Pérez Agusti · 1983
Synopsis
In a village in the sierra, don Francisco, a wealthy bachelor and notable of the pueblo, takes into his service a young woman from elsewhere. Their intimacy, then their marriage, upset a society in which the classes do not mix, and the film tells of this union through the testimony of the neighbours, each saying what they saw or thought they saw of this couple whom everything separates.
Context
The film was shot by the Taller de Cine, in Cuenca, on VHS video, the editing being done with the camera's pause button; the director himself handled the camera, the screenplay and the editing. José Neira Muñoz and Ana Puyol played the leading roles. The story adapted is the eponymous work by Arturo Montesinos Malo. Sources hesitate between 1981 and 1983, and the filmmaker Camilo Luzuriaga sees the film as a forerunner of hacienda cinema.
Who it is for
In Spanish, fifty-one minutes, on an unrestored video tape; it can be found online, cut into parts.
Prizes and reception
Regarded as the first fictional feature film shot in Cuenca and Azuay, and as the seed of the city's cinema.
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