After the Christmas break, the University of Valencia’s Cinema Club restarts its programming in Blasco Ibáñez Campus with a new series, Julio Cortázar: 100 years. The initiative will show the influence of the Argentinian writer on the seventh art, and pay homage in the centenary of his birth in 1914. During the month of January, every Wednesday at 18:00 a selection of films inspired by the work of the renowned author of novels such as ‘Rayuela’ or ‘El Perseguidor’ will be projected in the Sanchis Guarner Assembly Hall at the Faculty of Language Studies, Translation and Communication.
The film season will try to bring the audience closer to the works of one of the most important 20th-century Spanish-language writers through some of the most representative film adaptations, directed by filmmakers as important as Antonioni, Godard or Eastwood.
The film season will start on Wednesday 8 January with the screening of Blowup (Michelangelo Antonioni, 1966), one of the most representative works of Cortázar’s contribution to cinema, which was awarded the Palme d’Or at Cannes. The film was adapted from Julio Cortázar’s short story, Las babas del diablo (The Devil’s Drool) and tells the story of a photographer who, after revealing some photographs taken in a London park, discovers an unrecognizable figure that turns out to be a corpse.
On Wednesday 15 January, is Week End (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967), based on La autopista del Sur (The Southern Thruway), one of Cortázar’s most well-known stories since its publication in 1966, will be screened. The film, which is part of the French New Wave, tells the experience of Corinne and Roland, a French couple, on their trip through the roads of the region of Île-de-France. The famous French director reflects, through the different situations that arise along the way, on the end of the bourgeoisie and the consumer society in a kind of a modern Gulliver’s Travels.
The season will close on Wednesday, 29 January, with the screening of Bird (Clint Eastwood, 1988), largely inspired by El Perseguidor (The Pursuer), a novel that portrays the last days of the famous and prodigious American jazz saxophonist Charlie ‘Bird’ Parker. This work, considered one of the best among the music genre born in the United States, narrates Parker’s artistic career and his addictions until his early death at the age of thirty-four. Forest Whitaker’s portrayal, one of the strengths of the film, earned him the Best Actor award at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
As usual in the Cinema Club, each film will be presented before its screening and an open discussion will take place later, in which the audience can participate. All films will be screened in their original version with subtitles in Spanish. Entry is free but seating is limited.
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Last update: 7 de january de 2014 12:06.
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