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Umbracle

01/01/1972

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1hr 25min

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Documentary

STORY

This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco dictatorship. “Montage of attractions” and Brechtianism in strong doses. Umbracle is made up of fragments (some are archive footage) that resound rather than progress by unusual links, with dejá vu scenes that promise us more but remain tensely unfinished. Jonathan Rosembaun said: “few directors since Resnais have played so ruthlessly with the unconscious narrative expectations to bug us”. Learning from the feeling of strangeness caused by Rossellini as he threw well known actors into savage scenery in southern Europe. Portabella makes Christopher Lee wander around a dream-like Barcelona. Without a doubt Portabella’s most structurally complex and most profoundly political film, that is ferociously poetic.

CAST & CREW

    Cast

  • Christopher Lee
  • Jeannine Mestre
  • Miguel Bilbatúa
  • Román Gubern
  • Joan Enric Lahosa

    Director

  • Pere Portabella

INFORMATION

    Production Companies

  • Films 59

    Production Countries

  • Spain

LANGUAGES

  • Spanish
  • English

Cast

Christopher Lee

The Man

Jeannine Mestre

The Woman

Miguel Bilbatúa

Joan Enric Lahosa

Joan Miró

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