THE FILMTECA. Pl. town hall, 17
THE Catalan director Marc Recha is the owner of one of the most personal filmographies that has been seen on screen in recent decades. Portraitist of the small, each Recha film is presented as a little gem. Titles like The empty hands, August days, Pau and his brother show a special sensitivity, both in the construction of stories and in his conception of the use of cinema tools. As the years go by, Recha has kept her coordinates. From The cherry tree His cinema has been a portrait of open spaces, nature, from childhood, of lost souls searching, between realism and fantasy, your place in the world.
Incomprehensibly, Recha's films seem to encounter difficulties in commercial distribution. His last job, The free life, It did not reach the Valencian screens, an absence that La Filmoteca has proposed to remedy in two screenings. Highlight the session offered to us this Friday 5, at 8 p.m., in which we will have the presence of the director, which will be offered for a subsequent discussion with the public in the Sala Berlanga. Those who cannot attend, They will have a second chance to see the movie on Saturday 6, at 22:30h.
Recha takes Stevenson's work as a starting point, treasure island, to compose an adventure story without abandoning his minimalism and sensitivity that characterize his cinema. The action takes place in Mallorca in 1917. two brothers, Tina and Biel, discover a valuable treasure. With him they propose to travel to Algiers, where his mother has gone in search of work. In this adventure they will have the help of a mysterious fisherman, Rom (Sergi López), a free soul that is accountable to no one. Not to be missed. G.LEON
