{"id":124961,"date":"2023-02-12T20:57:15","date_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/film-director-carlos-saura-dies-at-91\/"},"modified":"2023-02-12T20:57:15","modified_gmt":"2023-02-12T15:27:15","slug":"film-director-carlos-saura-dies-at-91","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/film-director-carlos-saura-dies-at-91\/","title":{"rendered":"Film director Carlos Saura dies at 91"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\t\t\t\t\tThe Spanish director was going to receive the Goya award of honor on February 11.\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

\t\t\t\tPhoto: Carlos Alvarez \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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On Friday, February 10, the Spanish director Carlos Saura died at the age of 91, due to respiratory failure.<\/strong> Author of more than 50 films, he was very versatile in terms of film genres, and just a few days ago his most recent work was released “The walls speak”<\/strong>a documentary about painting through the centuries.<\/p>\n

Saura was born on January 4, 1932 in Huesca, and his interest in cinema began when he was just a child. He began as a photographer in various events, participating in exhibitions with his brother Antonio de \u00e9l; He studied cinema at the Institute of Cinematographic Research and Experiences in Madrid, making his debut in feature films in 1960 with “The gulfs”<\/strong>; however, it was the tape “The hunt”<\/strong>released six years later, which would get excellent reviews worldwide.<\/p>\n

In the 1970s, Saura challenged censorship regarding the content of his scripts, reinforcing his style as an author.<\/strong> in films like \u201cThe Garden of Earthly Delights\u201d<\/strong> and “Breeding ravens”<\/strong>. He also dabbled in musicals, with the movies “Blood Wedding”<\/strong>, “Carmen”<\/strong> and “The love wizard”<\/strong>. One of her biggest box office hits was “Ay Carmela”<\/strong>from 1990, and with “Shoot”<\/strong> -a controversial film starring Antonio Banderas<\/strong>\u2013 combined drama with the police genre.<\/p>\n

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Carlos Saura competed for the Palme d’Or at Cannes eight times<\/strong>; got the award Goya<\/strong> for Best Director and Best Adapted Screenplay in 1991 (for his film “Ay Carmela!”<\/strong>) and precisely On February 11, he was going to receive the Goya de Honor for his long film career. <\/strong>The director was remembered by many Spanish film characters, including Banderas, who wrote: \u201cWith Carlos Saura, a very important part of the history of Spanish cinema dies. <\/strong>He leaves behind him an essential work for deep reflection on the behavior of the human being\u201d.<\/p>\n

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The Spanish director was going to receive the Goya award of honor on February 11. Photo: Carlos Alvarez \/ Getty Images On Friday, February 10, the Spanish director Carlos Saura died at the age of 91, due to respiratory failure. Author of more than 50 films, he was very versatile in terms of film genres,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":124962,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10746],"tags":[16275,12508,10934,10817,33631],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/laopinion.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2023\/02\/carlossaura-getty.jpg?fit=%2C&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124961"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imageantra.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}