- Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura (born
4 January 1932 ,Atarés ,Huesca ) is a Spanish film director.Early life
Born into a family of artists (his mother was a pianist and his brother,
Antonio Saura , a painter), he developed his artistic sense in childhood by doing photography. He obtained his directing diploma inMadrid in 1957 at the Institute of Cinema Research and Studies, where he also taught until 1963.Career
In 1957-1958, he created his first film (Cuenca). In 1965, his style, both lyrical and documentary, centred on the problems of the poor, received the recognition of the international community at the
Berlin Film Festival , where he received the Silver Bear for his film "La caza". In 1967, his film "Peppermint Frappé " also received a prize at Berlin.The movies "
La prima Angélica " ("Cousin Angélica") of 1973 and "Cría cuervos " ("Raising Ravens" [from the spanish phrase: cria cuervos y te sacaran los ojos (raise ravens and they will peck out your eyes)] ) of 1975 received the special prize of the jury at theCannes Film Festival . His movie "Mama cumple 100 años" ("Mom is celebrating her 100 years") was nominated at the Oscar, for the best foreign film in 1979.Saura has become known for making movies centered around traditional Latin dance. His "
Flamenco Trilogy" of the 1980s includes "Bodas de Sangre", "Carmen", and "El amor brujo", and he later made movies called "Flamenco" and "Tango".In 1990, he received the
Goya Award for the best director and best script for ¡Ay, Carmela!. He was chosen as director for the official film of the 1992 Olympic Games of Barcelona, "Marathon" (1993).In 2008, Carlos Saura was honoured with Global Life Time Achievement Award at the 10 Mumbai International Film Festival organized by the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) [http://dearcinema.com/spanish-director-carlos-saura-to-get-lifetime-achievement-award-at-mumbai-fest/]
Personal life
Carlos Saura was married twice, in
Barcelona in 1957 to Adela Medrano, and onDecember 27 ,1982 to Mercedes Pérez. By his first marriage he had two sons, Carlos (b. 1958) and Antonio (b. 1960). By his second marriage he had three sons, Manuel (b. 1980), Adrián (b. 1984) and Diego (b. 1987). Between marriages he had at least one known son, Shane (b. 1974) by actressGeraldine Chaplin , though his at times cavalier attitude towards sex leads some to believe there may have been more. After his second marriage he was the father of a daughter named Ana (b. December 1994) by Eulalia Ramón.Saura considers that his film on surrealist master Luis Bunuel is his best cinematic work. In an interview to an online film magazine DearCinema [http://dearcinema.com/camera-is-my-memory-carlos-saura/] he says about “Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón (Bunuel and the table of king Solomon -2001)” “That’s the greatest film I’ve ever made. I like the film but nobody else seems to like it. I’m sure Bunuel would have loved this film. But perhaps only he would have loved it. Everything you see in the film is actually based on conversations I had with him.”
Filmography
* 1956 : "
El Pequeño río Manzanares " short film
* 1957 : "La Tarde del domingo " short film
* 1958 : "Cuenca" short film
* 1960 : "Los Golfos "
* 1964 : "Llanto por un bandido "
* 1966 : "La Caza
* 1967 : "Peppermint Frappé "
* 1968 : "Stress es tres tres "
* 1969 : "La Madriguera "
* 1970 : "El jardín de las delicias "
* 1973 : "Ana y los lobos "
* 1973 : "La prima Angélica "
* 1975 : "Cría cuervos "
* 1977 : "Elisa, vida mía "
* 1978 : "Los ojos vendados "
* 1979 : "Mamá cumple cien años "
* 1980 : "Deprisa, Deprisa "
* 1981 : "Bodas de Sangre"
* 1982 : "Dulces horas "
* 1982 : "Antonieta "
* 1983 : "Carmen"
* 1984 : "Los Zancos "
* 1986 : "El amor brujo"
* 1988 : "El Dorado"
* 1989 : "La Noche oscura "
* 1990 : "Ay Carmela"
* 1992 : "El Sur "
* 1992 : "Marathon"
* 1992 : "Sevillanas"
* 1993 : "¡Dispara! "
* 1995 : "Flamenco"
* 1997 : "Taxi"
* 1997 : "Pajarico "
* 1998 : "Esa luz! "
* 1998 : "Tango"
* 1999 : "Goya en Burdeos "
* 2001 : "Buñuel y la mesa del rey salomón "
* 2002 : "Salomé"
* 2004 : "El séptimo día "
* 2005 : "Iberia"
* 2007 : "Fados "External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0767022/ IMDb profile] (
IMDb )
* [http://www.clubcultura.com/clubcine/clubcineastas/saura/home.htm Official Webpage in Spanish]
* [http://www.esflamenco.com/bio/en11486.html Carlos Saura biography and flamenco-related films]
* [http://dearcinema.com/camera-is-my-memory-carlos-saura/ Interview: Camera is My Memory: Carlos Saura]
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