Film career Pere Portabella

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portabella (second right) @ 66th venice film festival


raised among great catalan industrial bourgeoisie, portabella moved @ age study chemistry in madrid. there met artists such joan ponç, antoni tàpies , students @ escuela oficial de cine (eoc), including carlos saura , julio diamante. first contacts portabella made world of cinema came in 1958, met leopoldo pomés in order make documentary on bullfighting. portabella took on role of producer, while co-director of short film carlos saura. portabella lamented inability edit material meaningful structure, remarking, got lot of beautiful pictures, had nothing or offer. after failure of project, portabella decided devote himself productions related socio-political reality of period.


in 1959, set production company film 59, began activity production of 2 films influenced italian neorealism: los golfos (thugs, 1960) carlos saura , el cochecito (1960) marco ferreri. in 1960, los golfos screened @ cannes film festival, portabella met luis buñuel. convinced buñuel return spain , shoot viridiana. co-produced mexican gustavo alatriste - spanish company uninci headed bardem , ricardo muñoz suay - , movies 59, buñuel s film, despite numerous script corrections made @ request of director general of cinematography, openly parodied symbols of spanish state religion. presented @ cannes film festival in 1961, film earned palme d or, viridiana caused famous scandal.


following viridiana, portabella collaborated several other filmmakers. on first, lejos de los arboles (1963-1970), written , directed jacinto esteva, portabella credited associate producer owing desire not linked school in barcelona. in 1965, portabella wrote ii momento della verita of francesco rosi. then, in 1969, produced hydrangea, directed 1 of pioneers of alternative cinema in spain, aragon antonio maenza. after several more realistic films led censorship , difficulties authorities, portabella dedicated himself development of radical cinematic language, leading first short film no contéis con los dedos in 1968. subsequently collaborated miró on series of films fondation maeght.


after death of francisco franco in 1975, portabella made documentary on subject of democratic transition entitled informe sobre algunas questiones of general interes para una proyección pública (1976). in 1990 made fictional feature, warsaw bridge, reflection on relationship between literature , film, marked return radical techniques. in 2007 portabella directed silence before bach, explored relationship between music of johann sebastian bach , imagery. in 2009 member of jury of 66th venice film festival.







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