Umbracle (1972)

ALL 01/01/1972 (ca) Documentary 85 Min
  • Release
    01/01/1972
  • Production
    Films 59
  • Rotten tomato
    58%
  • Original title
    Umbracle
  • Original language
    ca
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

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.

  1. Pere Portabella

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Producer



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Umbracle (1972) 85 Min

ALL 01/01/1972 (ca)
Documentary
  • Release 01/01/1972
  • Production
    Films 59
  • Original title Umbracle
  • ca
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Pere Portabella

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Teresa Alcocer

    Editor

  4. Producer