Carlos Saura

Known for DirectingBorn 1932-01-04Died 2023-02-10Huesca, Aragón, Spain

Carlos Saura Atarés (4 January 1932 – 10 February 2023) was a Spanish film director, photographer and writer. With Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodóvar, he is considered to be among Spain's great filmmakers. He had a long and prolific career that spanned over half a century, and his films won many international awards. Saura began his career in 1955 making documentary shorts. He gained international prominence when his first feature-length film premiered at Cannes Film Festival in 1960. Although he started filming as a neorealist, Saura switched to films encoded with metaphors and symbolism in order to get around the Spanish censors. In 1966, he was thrust into the international spotlight when his film The Hunt won the Silver Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival. In the following years, he forged an international reputation for his cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. By the 1970s, Saura was the best known filmmaker working in Spain. His films employed complex narrative devices and were frequently controversial. He won Special Jury Awards for Cousin Angelica (1973) and Cría Cuervos (1975) in Cannes, and he received an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film nomination in 1979 for Mama Turns 100. In the 1980s, Saura was in the spotlight for his Flamenco trilogy – Blood Wedding, Carmen and El amor brujo, in which he combined dramatic content and flamenco dance forms. His work continued to be featured in worldwide competitions and earned numerous awards. He received two nominations for Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film for Carmen (1983) and Tango (1998). His films are sophisticated expression of time and space fusing reality with fantasy, past with present, and memory with hallucination. In the last two decades of the 20th century, Saura concentrated on works uniting music, dance and images.Read more

Movies & web series

Carlos Saura's FlamencoHoy

Les paradoxes de Buñuel

Cuentos de Borges

Letter of Sanabria

Critic

Goya, Carrière & the Ghost of Buñuel

El pequeño Río Manzanares

Cria!

The Walls Can Talk

Renzo Piano, an Architect for Santander

Rafael Azcona

Flamenco Flamenco

Fados

Pablo G. del Amo, un montador de ilusiones

El sur

Cuenca

El amor brujo

The Stilts

The Hunt

Anna and the Wolves

The 7th Day

Tango

La tarde del domingo

Ay, Carmela!

Salomé

Carmen

Blood Wedding

The King of All the World

The Little Apartment

Elisa, My Life

Peppermint Frappé

Donde acaba la memoria

Little Bird

Faster, Faster

Rosa Rosae. A Spanish Civil War Elegy

Flamenco

Navajeros, censores y nuevos realizadores

El Dorado

Cousin Angelica

Saura(s)

Muere una mujer

24 horas en la vida de Querejeta

Honeycomb

Mama Turns 100

Searching for Ingmar Bergman

Antonio Gades, la ética de la danza

Portrait of Carlos Saura

Speaking of Buñuel