MADRID (Reuters) – Director Carlos Saura, figurehead of the revival of Spanish cinema after decades of Franco’s dictatorship, author of masterpieces such as “Cria Cuervos” (1976) and “Carmen” (1983), died on Friday at the age of 91.
The Spanish Film Academy clarified that the filmmaker, “one of the fundamental characters in the history of Spanish cinema”, died at his home surrounded by his loved ones.
Born in 1932 in Huesca in the north of Spain, Carlos Saura, of whom Stanley Kubrick was one of the admirers, explained the origin of his critical view of the bourgeoisie and his recourse to fantasy and flashbacks by his proximity to his eldest, Luis Bunuel, a native of Aragon like him who had become a friend.
(Written by Belen Carreno and Andrei Khalip, French version Jean-Stéphane Brosse, edited by Blandine Hénault)
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