Umbracle
This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco dictatorship. “Montage of attractions” and Brechtianism in strong doses. Umbracle is made up of fragments (some are archive footage) that resound rather than progress by unusual links, with dejá vu scenes that promise us more but remain tensely unfinished. Jonathan Rosembaun said: “few directors since Resnais have played so ruthlessly with the unconscious narrative expectations to bug us”. Learning from the feeling of strangeness caused by Rossellini as he threw well known actors into savage scenery in southern Europe. Portabella makes Christopher Lee wander around a dream-like Barcelona. Without a doubt Portabella’s most structurally complex and most profoundly political film, that is ferociously poetic.
Year: 1972
Genre: Documentary
Studio: Films 59
Director: Pere Portabella
Cast: Christopher Lee, Jeannine Mestre, Miguel Bilbatúa, Román Gubern, Joan Enric Lahosa, Joan Miró
Crew: Carles Santos (Music), Pere Portabella (Director), Joan Brossa (Writer), Pere Portabella (Writer), Teresa Alcocer (Editor), Manuel Esteban Marquilles (Cinematography)
Runtime: 85 minutes
Release: Jan 01, 1972
IMDb: 5.70/10 by 10 users
Popularity: 5
Country: Spain
Language: English, Español
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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