Carlos Saura’s fire is not extinguished yet. Despite his recent death, the cinema world continues to commemorate one of the great Spanish filmmakers who played a key role in the country’s cinematographic history. Just a year ago Saura Honorable Biznaga The award of the Malaga Film Festival, an award for which the Aragonese filmmaker showcases his humor: «90 years old 3 months 7 children 50 movies».
Now the Festival mourns his death and therefore commemorates and honors the figure of the director who died a little over a month ago. Because “To speak of Carlos Saura is to speak of a name in capital letters of our cinematography.”announced yesterday Juan Antonio VigarThe director of the Malaga Festival, during the moment of silence that the event paid him, attended by two of the seven children of the great director, Anna And Antony; widow, Eulalia Ramonand actress Monica Randall, Collaborating with the filmmaker at Cría cuervos.
Vigar wanted to remember the filmmaker: “I know you had a very special respect for the past year. He realized his real impact on young people.stresses that his work has had a great impact on culture”.
“Mmy father went to work until the last day» recalled the director’s relatives. And also “clear and clairvoyantFor Ramón, the last days of his life were very special: reluctant to express and share his feelings, the author “saw a few special people” who “could confirm that he said things he never said”.
The widow said, “Twenty-four hours ago, Carlos didn’t think he was going to die ». “He was worried about us a week before we renewed his license. travel cardwas life for him,” the widow recalled. And she remembered: “Before I died, I asked him: Are you going to do the final spin of the script? I felt he had his last shot.
The family has not yet had time to absorb their loss. carlos saurabecause constant expressions of love are “sometimes overwhelming”: “He died and the Goyas came and countless tributes… I haven’t had time to cry yet,” says his son Antonio.
Randall remembered the day he learned that his friend had died:I felt in the wrong place, I wanted to be there to say goodbye to him. I was very lucky to be part of his family. “You knew your career would change when Saura looked at you,” said the translator.
free spirit
on his behalf Eulalia Ramon She wanted to share what she loved most about the Aragonese director with those attending the memorial service about her husband: “His free and playful spirit always loved to play.” And he confessed to the public: «I still feel like I’m somehow ruled by him. who thinks everything is a movie.
antonio saura summed up that he was his father”a nice person», although she admits that she is “a tortured Saura and has a lot of creative egoism in a good way”. “She’d be pissed if you said only nice things, I would scold now”the great director’s widow joked.
The finishing touch for this tribute was the screening of his documentary. walls talkHis last work while alive is a portrait that depicts the evolution of art, from the first graphic revolutions in prehistoric caves to the most avant-garde expressions of urban art, and its relationship to the wall as a canvas of creation.