Furtivos. 50 years
Carlos F. Heredero
José Luis Borau’s masterpiece is born in the decisive, historical Spanish crossroads of 1975. Fifty years later, this book goes back to the film to reliably document the inner history of such a singular project for the first time: the chronology, the figures, the roles, the screenwriting, the production plan, the money, the contracts, the locations, the incidents of the shooting, the censorship records, the conversations with festivals, the distribution, the box office, its international circulation, the controversies and threats, etc.
This in-depth study offers new perspectives to frame the film in its social, political and cultural context, between the criminal agony of Franco's dictatorship and the struggles that prepare the Transition to democracy. At the same time, the analysis of its images —inherited from Buñuel and Goya, from Gutiérrez Solana’s fierce Castile and Cela’s dark realism— allows us to understand the complex nature of its discourse and forms.
A firmly original interview with Borau about the film completes this research.
DATE: Monday 17 March
TIME: 17:30 p.m.
PLACE: Auditorio Christine Ruiz-Picasso
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