Carlos Saura
Date of Birth: 04 Jan 1932
Country: Spain
Biography: Carlos Saura Atarés (born 4 January 1932) is a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. Along with Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be one of Spain’s most renowned filmmakers. He has a long and prolific career that spans over half a century. His films have won many international awards.
Total Credits at Criticker: 4 (Actor), 47 (Director), 38 (Writer)
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Explores the experiences and artistic evolution of Francisco Goya, the man considered to be the most important artist of the modern era. (Sony Pictures Classics)
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A group of flamenco dancers are rehearsing a very spanish version of the Prosper Merimee's drama. Antonio (the coreographer) falls in love with Carmen (the main dancer). Their story then turns similar to the play. (imdb)
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As Mama reaches the century mark, her wolf-pack relatives go fang and claw after currying her favor in hopes of a large legacy. The film is set during the Franco regime, permitting Saura to use his greedy family as a microcosm of all that had gone bad in Spain since the Civil War. (All Movie Guide)
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Carlos Saura wrote and directed this powerful psychological drama in which family crises which reflect the embattled soul of a nation are seen through the eyes of an unusually perceptive child... (All Movie Guide)
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Set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, the film tells the story of director Mario Suarez's quest to make the ultimate tango film... (imdb)
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As a hall fills with performers, a narrator says that flamenco came from Andalucia, a mix of Greek psalms, Mozarabic dirges, Castillian ballads, Jewish laments, Gregorian chants, African rhythms, and Iranian and Romany melodies. The film presents thirteen rhythms of flamenco, each with song, guitar, and dance... (imdb)
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The story of Salomé told as one of extreme love and vengeance. A director prepares a troupe of flamenco dancers for a performance. He summarizes the story and describes his spring for the drama's action: Salomé's attraction to John the Baptist. When the prophet rejects her, she seeks revenge. We meet the principals. We watch rehearsals, a dress rehearsal, and then the performance. The movie is both about the performance and about preparation for performance. (imdb)
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A company of Flamenco dancers rehearsal a play of Federico Garcia Lorca about a wedding imposed by the parents to the bride. She is indeed in love of another man, and when the groom finds her with her lover, they duel with razors, ending tragically the feast.
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Luis journeys to Segovia to obtain his mother's remains and goes through repeated vivid flashbacks of the area pre-Spanish Civil War.
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Paulino and Carmela are husband and wife, troubadours touring the countryside during the Spanish Civil War. They are Republicans, and with their mute assistant, Gustavete, they journey into rebel territory by mistake. They are arrested, fear a firing squad, and receive a reprieve from an Italian Fascist commander who loves the theatre. He arranges a performance for his troops, bargaining with Paulino to stage a burlesque of the republic in exchange for the actors' freedom. (imdb)
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Four men assemble for a rabbit hunt on the desert property of Jose, a business man and host of the hunt. (Culturecourt.com)
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The story centers around a man named Julian who becomes obsessed with the wife of an old friend, believing her to be a mysterious drummer that he once fell in love with at a festival. (Wikipedia)
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In a Gypsy village, the fathers of Candela and José promise their children to each other. Years later, the unfaithful José marries Candela but while defending his lover Lucía in a brawl, he is stabbed to death. (imdb)
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Toledo in the 30s: The godfather of cinematic surrealism, Luis Buñuel, the poet Federico Garcia Loca and the painter Salvador Dalí are on a search for the mythical table of King Salomon, which is known to have the power to see in the past, the present and the future.
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The story of two feuding families as written by screenwriter Ray Loriga, is one of family rancour more than family honour and is, sadly, based on a true story. It took place on 26th of August 1990 in north Spain.
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This Spanish drama verges on parody as it explores the convoluted, repressed personalities of a family dominated by a powerful mother. The mother's frustrations have warped the men. The three men's foibles are revealed during the visit of a young English woman. (AllMovie)
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Jose Luis Lopez Vasquez stars as a millionaire industrialist who is involved in an auto accident. When he comes to, Vasquez has completely forgotten who he is and how much money he has. His greedy relatives would love to put Vasquez away and claim his fortune. But there's a fly in the ointment: the money is in a secret Swiss bank account, and the only one who knows (or who knew) the account number is the amnesiac Vasquez. (AllMovie)
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A married couple and a male friend leave together on a weekend vacation. Stress is brought on by the husband's jealousies. He hopes to play out his fantasies with his friend and wife in order to justify revenge. Geraldine Chaplin, Juan Luis Galiardo, and Fernando Cebrian star in this odd tryst that is heavy on insects and the voyeuristic machinations of the husband's mind. (AllMovie)
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Ana is an equestrian sharpshooter for a one ring circus in Madrid for a week. Marcos is a reporter doing a Sunday supplement piece. He interviews her and she invites him to dinner with the troupe. They dance, then spend the night together; he considers following her around Europe and promises he'd follow her to Hell. While he's in Barcelona to cover a concert, three young men assault her. Bruised, humiliated, and bleeding, she picks up her rifle to hunt them down. (imdb)
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A drama based on the life of 18th century Italian lyricist Lorenzo da Ponte, who collaborated with Mozart on his "Don Giovanni" opera. (imdb)
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Shot in Costa Rica in 1988, 'El Dorado' is one of a rare breed, a Spanish film about its own role in America in the 16th century. However, this film doesn't tell a story of glory and conquest, but one of failure and slow descent into madness. The story is about an expedition down the Orinoco river in 1560, undertaken by Spanish soldiers with the aim of finding the famed land of El Dorado, where gold is supposedly plentiful. (imdb)
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Angela begins to hang around with Pablo and his gang of young robbers. (imdb)
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A married couple move into an isolated avantgarde dwelling in rural Spain. The house causes them to start role-playing and acting out parts of their past or imagined lives, until the game begins to get out of control.
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A young girl, after failing an exam, is forced by her father, a taxi-driver, to learn his profession. Soon she discovers that her father is not only a driver but also a member of a racist group eliminating immigrants, homosexual, transvestite, etc. people. She also falls in love with a boy, also a taxi-driver and a "socio" of the group. (imdb)
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A French psychologist investigates about famous suicidal women. She finds the case of Antonieta Rivas Mercado, a Mexican writer who died inside Paris' Notre Dame in 1931. To follow the investigation she travels to Mexico to reveal her life. (imdb)
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Filmed like a documentary, "Sevillanas" consists of eleven short performances by Spain's most famous flamenco dancers, singers and guitarists. Saura, well-known for his flamenco films ("Blood Wedding," "Carmen"), here provides an in-depth look at the Sevillanas form of flamenco and its dancers. (imdb)
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A relatively simple coming-of-age drama with autobiographical overtones from Carlos Saura, one of Spain's leading directors, the story is told from the viewpoint of 10-year-old Manu as he is shuffled from relative to relative in the hometown of his parents, who are busy trying to decide whether or not to divorce. That each of Manu's relatives is eccentric only adds spice to the low-key tale
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Julián, Ramón, Juan, El Chato, Paco and Manolo are a group of youngsters. Until now, the only people who've paid them any attention have been the police. They're accepted as low class, miserable and have mostly been ignored. Juan wants to become a bullfighter; his friends mug people so he can pay for his debut fight. One day, one of them dies running away in action; once recognized by the police during the bullfight, it ends up being a complete failure. (en.peramuzesi.org.tr)
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While attending an international conference which seeks to reduce the incidence of the use of torture by nations around the globe, a movie director (Jose Luis Gomez) encounters a woman (Geraldine Chaplin) whom he decides to cast in a play about state torture. As events proceed, he and the woman, the wife of a dentist, become lovers. All along, however, right-wing types have been persecuting, and the whole endeavor goes sour. (allmovie.com)
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Exploring once again the deep magic of popular music, Carlos Saura goes into the Argentine folklore to offer a fascinating tour on a past world, present and future of a genre that marked the youth of the multiawarded filmmaker. (Filmaffinity)
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José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
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A musical documentary about la Jota, the traditional dance and folk music from his homeland: Aragon During the shooting of "LA JOTA", Carlos Saura puts forward a new journey starting from the most basic and rooted to his land's folk singing and traditional dance, to those who anticipate the future of this powerful music; in a visual journey where the scenery and the light will be the support of the story, intending to leave a vital, historical and unique document to future generations. (imdb)
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A view of the Olympic Games at Barcelona, using the marathon race as the weaving thread.
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The past is a riddle to Juan (Inaki Aierra), the playwright. He is tormented by it - by memories of the elderly father who went off, and the young mother who committed suicide (imdb).
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Rosa rosae. La guerra civil (2021) - Short Film
Saura creates and recovers more than thirty images, drawings and photographs that he prints, manipulates, plays with and subsequently films, to produce a story which, while recreating the Spanish Civil War, could also reflect the horrors of universal conflict, seen through the eyes of a child and his surroundings.
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La tarde del domingo (1957) - Short Film
Clara, an under-educated, dejected young woman from the provinces, works as household servant for a middle-class family in Madrid, and has Sunday afternoons free. She meets some friends, takes a walk in the Retiro, and visits a dance hall. (Timon88)
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Cuenca (1958) - Short Film
A documentary about Cuenca, a Spanish province rich in history and natural gifts. (Timon88)
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Made for the Aragón Pavilion installation of the 2008 Zaragoza Internationl Exposition, it is Saura's tribute to Aragón's landscapes, music and dance. (Timon88)
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Ángel is an aging professor, a lonely widower without purpose. His lovely, spirited neighbor, Teresa, interrupts his suicide attempt when she comes to borrow wine. She invites him for dinner and he meets her lover, Alberto, and their young child. Teresa captivates him, he develops a school-boy's crush, and when Alberto invites him to write something for their theatre troupe, called the Stilts, he jumps at the chance. (imdb)
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A fascinating study of the poet Saint John of the Cross, and his spell in solitary confinement. Set in the convent of Toledo, this film explores the temptations that surrounded him, the dreams that afflicted him, his sanctity and his sanity. (imdb)
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A new documentary by Carlos Saura on the origin of art and its relationship with the most avant-garde tendencies. Seen from the Aragonese moviemaker’s personal and peculiar point of view, the movie portrays the evolution and relationship of art with the wall as a creative canvas, from the first graphic revolutions of the prehistoric caves to the most cutting-edge expressions of urban art. (filmaffinity.com)
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Documentary that follows the conception and construction of the Centro Botín arts center in Santander, Spain by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. (Timon88)
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Manuel is preparing his next show, a musical about making a musical show. He seeks the help of Sara, his ex-wife and renowned choreographer, to direct it. In the casting, the young Inés will appear as a rising star while dealing with her father and the local mob. During the rehearsals, the passion and tension will grow among the dancers. Powerful Mexican music sets the tone while a play emerges in which tragedy, fiction and reality intertwine. (FilmAffinity.com)
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