Acclaimed Spanish director Carlos Saura, who hit the global spotlight in the 1960s with his critiques of Franco’s dictatorship, died Friday, Feb. 10, at the age of 91, the Spanish film academy said. | AFP
Willie Revillame warns vs clickbait amid resurfaced Harry Roque interview: ‘Di nila ipinakita ‘yung totoo’Willie Revillame reminds critics he loved, helped out: ‘Kayo ang may utang na loob sa akin, hindi ako’“His cinema will never die. Goodbye Carlos Saura,” the Royal Household tweeted, along with a photo showing the filmmaker chatting with the king and queen.
He died just a day before he was to have been awarded an honorary Goya, Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars, for his decades-long career which was to have been presented at the 37th Goya Awards ceremony in the southern city of Seville.“Carlos Saura, filmmaker, photographer, set designer and all-round artist, has gone,” tweeted Culture Minister Miquel Iceta, saying his career had received “all the awards imaginable.
In his early years, Saura focused on the evils of society, first winning international recognition with “The Hunt” , a critique of the regime of dictator Francisco Franco which won the Berlin Film Festival’s second-highest award. After the dictatorship ended with Franco’s death in 1975, he shifted his focus to his love of music and dance with his 1980s trilogy of flamenco films “Blood Wedding,” “Carmen” and “A Love Bewitched.”
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