FROM THURSDAY 5/1 ON SATURDAY 25/2
THE FILMTECA. Pl. town hall, 17
The Filmoteca de Valencia is starting a cycle dedicated to the Hungarian filmmaker Márta Mészáros. Contemporània de Věra Chytilová about Agnès Varda, Mészáros studied film at the University of Moscow with great teachers such as Alexander Dovzhenko or Vsevolod Pudovkin, sharing classrooms with directors the size of Alexander Sokurov or Andrei Tarkovsky. The cycle aspires to restore the recognition of a director who would win the highest awards at the most prestigious festivals in the world: Os d'Or to Berlin, Critics' Award in Cannes and Concha de Plata in Sant Sebastià. Two reasons are attributed to the programmers for this omission: the West's disinterest in Eastern European cinema and the obstacles imposed by communism. The work of Márta Mészáros stands out as a portrait artist of her time, his concern for the influence of the real on fiction and the human face. Like this, shows us the factory world in The xica [5 i 14/1], the donut paper in the pagesia in Links [10 i 15/1], the urban culture of the generation beat in don't cry, precious [11 i 13/1] and couple and class relations in Disappearance [26/1], fourth film of this cycle. G.LEON
