1932-01-04 ( 93 years old ) in Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and his films won many international awards.
Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions.
By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain. His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for Cousin Angelica (1973) and Cría Cuervos (1975) in Cannes, and he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Turns 100.
In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood Wedding, Carmen and El amor brujo, in which he combined dramatic content and flamenco dance forms. His work continued to be featured in worldwide competitions and earned numerous awards. He received two nominations for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for Carmen (1983) and Tango (1998). His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. In the last two decades of the 20th century, Saura concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.
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Movies
Miradas del cine español
2024-03-08
The Walls Can Talk
2023-02-03
Donde acaba la memoria
2022-12-02
Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel
2022-09-21
Searching for Ingmar Bergman
2018-07-12
Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores
2018-04-15
Saura(s)
2017-09-23
Matilde Coral, acariciando el aire
2016-09-16
Tras Nazarin: Following Nazarin
2015-03-09
Aragón rodado
2014-04-24
Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy
2013-01-08
24 horas en la vida de Querejeta
2012-12-14
Rafael Azcona
2010-09-30
In the Lost City
2009-02-04
Critic
2008-01-22
Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza
2007-03-18
Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones
2005-11-18
Portrait of Carlos Saura
2004-01-01
Speaking of Buñuel
2000-06-09
Buñuel
1989-01-01
The Little Apartment
1959-06-15
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