The ICAA, in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes, Acción Cultural Española AC/E and AECID launch “Berlanga, la risa amarga”, a cycle whose objective is to bring the work of the Valencian director to the halls of cultural centers and film libraries around the world. The exhibition, which is made up of eight films, covers five decades of Luis García Berlanga's creation, from his beginnings as a film student with "El circo" (1949) to "La vaquilla" (1985).
The cycle includes a notebook made up of texts written by current filmmakers that contextualize the selected films. Chus Gutiérrez opens the brochure, who writes about El circo: an 18-minute short film that García Berlanga directed in 1949 during his stay at the Institute for Cinematographic Research and Experiences. For her part, Inés Paris reviews "That Happy Couple" (1951), a film recently restored by the Spanish Film Library whose end-of-production date, October 6, has been chosen to celebrate Spanish Cinema Day. Nor could we miss "Bienvendido Mister Marshall" (1953), "a bitter satirical comedy", as defined by María Cañas, who claims Berlanga's cinema as "a breath of fresh satire: caustic, sly, irreverent, iconoclastic, unique ”.
On the other hand, while Mar Coll writes about "Calabuch" (1956), Fernando Trueba does so about "Plácido" (1961), in a text in which he assesses the possible reasons that have prevented the international recognition of Berlanga and that coincides with the reflection on this question made by Alexander Payne in his text on "The Executioner" (1963). Completing the exhibition are "National Heritage", a 1980 film that Miguel Albaladejo talks about, and "La vaquilla" (1985), in whose review Borja Cobeaga claims humor to get closer to reality.
The cycle includes a notebook made up of texts written by current filmmakers that contextualize the selected films. Chus Gutiérrez opens the brochure, who writes about El circo: an 18-minute short film that García Berlanga directed in 1949 during his stay at the Institute for Cinematographic Research and Experiences. For her part, Inés Paris reviews "That Happy Couple" (1951), a film recently restored by the Spanish Film Library whose end-of-production date, October 6, has been chosen to celebrate Spanish Cinema Day. Nor could we miss "Bienvendido Mister Marshall" (1953), "a bitter satirical comedy", as defined by María Cañas, who claims Berlanga's cinema as "a breath of fresh satire: caustic, sly, irreverent, iconoclastic, unique ”.
On the other hand, while Mar Coll writes about "Calabuch" (1956), Fernando Trueba does so about "Plácido" (1961), in a text in which he assesses the possible reasons that have prevented the international recognition of Berlanga and that coincides with the reflection on this question made by Alexander Payne in his text on "The Executioner" (1963). Completing the exhibition are "National Heritage", a 1980 film that Miguel Albaladejo talks about, and "La vaquilla" (1985), in whose review Borja Cobeaga claims humor to get closer to reality.
