Pere Portabella's Warsaw Bridge (1989) is showing February 11 - March 11, 2020 on Mubi in the United States.1. Written for Sight and Sound in 2007: "The beautiful and exciting fifth feature of Catalan filmmaker Pere Portabella—the onetime coproducer of Viridiana who forged a memorable kind of clandestine experimental cinema under Franco with Vampir Cuadecuc (1970) and Umbracle (1972)—was made in 1989. But thanks to the overall scarcity of his work, I only caught up with it this year, at the first North American Portabella retrospective, held in Chicago in November. His work as a whole has been preoccupied with issues of continuity in almost every sense of that term—historical, political, thematic, narrative, poetic, musical, pictorial, sonic, stylistic, formal. And now that mainstream cinema has replaced Franco as the power to be subverted, continuities of narrative and those between sound and image are the principal orthodoxies to be played with."2. Between its opening...
- 2/24/2020
- MUBI
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