A final farewell to Carlos Saura at the Film Academy

On the stage where the chapel burned after 12:00 noon and the producer’s widow and children are already here, He played drums in Calanda, a municipality in Teruel in Bajo Aragón, where Luis Buñuel was born and where Saura used to shoot some scenes of ‘Pippermint Frappé’ with Geraldine Chaplin in that town.

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10 drummers attended the openingCarlos Saura’s relatives have already arrived, numerous media outlets and a security apparatus have gathered, and Head of Government Pedro Sánchez is expected to attend.

Alongside the photographs of Saura on the stage set in the burning chapel you can see a montage of footage from the movies, the red flowered director’s chair, the hat and glasses he used, and the camera he made himself.

also met a series of artworks that the producer calls ‘Photosaurus’, He has made many exhibitions on photographic enlargement by drawing and painting techniques.

During this day Numerous family members, friends and colleagues will pay a final tribute to one of history’s greatest Spanish filmmakers.

Honorable Goya

Director of iconic productions of Spanish cinema such as ‘Cría cuervos’, ‘La caza’ or ‘Flamenco’ He passed away on the eve of receiving the Goya de Honor award from the Academy of CinemaAnd at the ceremony that took place last Saturday at the Andalusia Auditorium in Seville.

The award was received on his behalf by his widow. actress Eulalia Ramón and two of her seven children, Antonio and Anna, at the opening of a gala that emotionally gravitates towards the Aragonese director and embraces the influence and legacy of the current generation of filmmakers.

Photographer, cartoonist and writer as well as filmmaker, he was versatile, active and hyperactive until the last moments of his life.Saura released the documentary “Las paredes habla” in theaters a week ago, proposes a journey from rock art to contemporary graffiti and traces the origin of the artistic impulse.

Also next Wednesday His latest work, the show “Lorca por Saura”, premiered at the Infanta Isabel Theater in Madrid, where singer India Martínez made her acting debut and took on the poet’s skin.

During his career, he won international awards such as the Silver Bear for Best Director at the Berlin International Film Festival for “La caza” and “Pippermint Frappé”, or the Special Jury Prize at the Cannes Film Festival for “La prima Angélica”.

It also won Goya for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay. “Oh Carmela!” and the Film Academy Gold Medal in 1992.

The Council of Ministers will authorize it this Tuesday. Grand Cross of the Civil Order of Alfonso X the Wise por for his “indisputable contribution to Spanish culture and art” and “one of the most important artists in Spanish history”.