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La prima Angélica. Cousin Angelica ( Spanish: La prima Angélica) is a 1974 Spanish drama film directed by Carlos Saura. Starring José Luis López Vázquez as a middle-aged man whose memories of his childhood during the Spanish Civil War make him reenact his past as the mature man he is today.
May 12, 1974 · Cousin Angelica: Directed by Carlos Saura. With José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas, Fernando Delgado, María Clara Fernández de Loaysa. After being given permission to re-inter his mother's body in their family vault, a middle-aged man who survived the Spanish Civil War as a child returns home and relives old memories.
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- 1974-05-12
Directed by Carlos Saura • 1974 • Spain Starring José Luis López Vázquez, Lina Canalejas, Fernando Delgado Carlos Saura’s most explosively controversial work, COUSIN ANGELICA ignited a violent uproar for its provocative treatment of the Spanish Civil War, with the film’s right-wing detractors going so far as to firebomb a Barcelona theater where it was being shown.
Jul 31, 2015 · Carlos Saura – La Prima Angélica AKA Cousin Angelica (1974) The initial idea for the film came from a specific reference to a cousin Angélica, in a scene from Ana and the wolves (Spanish: Ana y los lobos), director Carlos Saura’s previous work. In Ana and the wolves there is an inconsequential bit of dialogue that occurs in the private ...
Sep 14, 2023 · La Prima Angélica, Carlos Saura’s ninth film, which gained him the Jury Prize at Cannes this year, expands the peripheral attention given to the Civil War in El Jardin de las Delicias (1970). The film begins with the refectory of a boys’ college crawling with bodies extricating themselves in slow-motion from the wreckage caused by a chance Republican bomb.
Cousin Angelica was a controversial film about the memory of the Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) from the Republican perspective. When his mother dies, aging bachelor Luis (Jose Luis Lopez Vazquez) travels to Segovia, Spain, in order to bury her alongside her family. While there, he stays in the very house where he spent the duration of the war ...
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Rafael Azcona. Screenplay. When the single middle-aged Luis travels from Barcelona to bury the remains of his mother in the vault of his family in Segovia, he is lodged by his aunt Pilar in her old house where he spent his summer of 1936 with her. He meets his cousin Angelica, who was his first love, living on the first floor with her husband ...
