Umbracle 52 years old

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.

Credits

Umbracle Cast

Name	Character
Christopher Lee He was 49, 93 years old when he died	as The Man
Román Gubern He was 37, now 90 years old
Jeannine Mestre She was 25, now 77 years old	as The Woman

Umbracle Crew

Name	Department
Pere Portabella as Director. He was 42 (now 95) years old	Directing
Pere Portabella as Writer. He was 42 (now 95) years old	Writing
Teresa Alcocer as Editor.	Editing
Carles Santos as Music. Carles Santos was 31 (now 84) years old	Sound
Joan Brossa as Writer. He was 52 (79) years old when He died	Writing
Manel Esteban as Cinematography.	Crew