after presenting ‘Hurry, hurry’ at the 1981 Berlin Film FestivalIn the film, which won the Golden Bear for best picture, Carlos Saura immediately said: “Gulfs”The feature film he made in 1959 – about some friends from the slums of Madrid who commit various robberies to help another colleague who wants to become a bullfighter – was unlike anything he did now.
The director of ‘La caza’ and ‘La cousin Angélica’, as well as other cryptic and metaphorical films made during the Franco dictatorship, changed the third and adventures of other young criminals.
The film, which premiered at the Berlin festival on February 19, 1981, was highly appreciated both by the followers who demanded the change of Saura’s traditional style and by those who understood it as a style, apart from the award. A different approach to cinema on marginality and Spanish juvenile delinquency. Saura did not start from scratch. Filmography on the subject had a bad reputation. However, its appearance can be classified as more ‘flashy’ compared to the crude headdresses made so far.
Jose Antonio de la Loma He set a clear precedent with the ‘El Torete’ trilogy, which he made between 1977 and 1980 and which he opened with ‘Perros callejeros’, in a more direct and epidermal style, almost ‘exploitation’. Eloy de la Iglesia In his most explicit film, ‘Navajeros’, inspired by the adventures of El Jaro, more Marxist assumptions flowed in, but in some of his previous works – ‘Los placeres ocultos’, ‘El diputado’ – he already depicted the lumpen world. Thanks to the commercial success of some of these films and the critical prestige of Saura, quinqui cinema a social species.
Saura spent a lot of time preparing “Hurry, hurry”. As he admitted at the time, he had loads of files with press clippings on similar topics. The script was no longer a simple starting point, which the director enriched in his working sessions with his actors. For months, he visited different neighborhoods, not only looking for the most suitable non-professional translators.; He also wanted the chosen ones to be friends among themselves and to live in the same area. The rehearsals were videotaped, and Saura began replacing the dialogues from the original script with what Berta Socuéllamos, José Antonio Valdelomar, José María Hervás Roldán and the rest of the cast suggested.
“Quick, quick” cost 36 million pesetas and was filmed in nine weeks. Quinqui consecrated his cinema to the confines of auteur cinema.. Los Chunguitos song used at the end of the movie, “I’m staying with you” has also become emblematic of a powerful love story of the film.