Movements and schools
Spanish auteur cinema
From Francoist satire to lyricism, the great voices of Spanish cinema.
Under Franco censorship forced the use of metaphor, and Spanish cinema gained an oblique intelligence from it. Berlanga has an entire village wait for the arrival of the Marshall Plan, which does not stop. Buñuel returned from exile to shoot Viridiana, promptly banned in Spain after a scandal at Cannes. Erice filmed a little girl who believes she sees Frankenstein's monster on the plains of Castile in 1940, Saura a child convinced she has poisoned her father. The regime ended, the same film-makers remained.
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- CinemaWelcome Mr. Marshall!¡Bienvenido, Mister Marshall!Luis García Berlanga · 1953To please the Americans they expect, Villar del Río, a Castilian village, disguises itself as an Andalusian village.Cinema
- CinemaDeath of a CyclistMuerte de un ciclistaJuan Antonio Bardem · 1955Two lovers from Madrid's high society abandon a cyclist they have run over and afterwards live in fear.Cinema
- CinemaViridianaLuis Buñuel · 1961A novice gives up the convent and opens a Castilian estate to beggars, in an act of charity poorly repaid.Cinema
- CinemaThe Spirit of the BeehiveEl espíritu de la colmenaVíctor Erice · 1973Ana, six years old, sees Frankenstein at the village cinema and sets out to look for the monster, whom her sister says is alive.Cinema
- CinemaCría cuervosCarlos Saura · 1976An eight-year-old orphan, Ana stands up to her aunt Paulina and believes she sees her dead mother return.Cinema