MuVIM. Quevedo, 10
The Royal Spanish Language Academy recently recognized the term "berlanguià" in its dictionary, highlighting the dimension of the most important Valencian filmmaker of all time, Luis García Berlanga. This year marks the centenary of his birth and the MuVIM commemorates the occasion with the exhibition Visca Berlanga! who welcomes us with joy between banners, Spanish flags, packages dropped from the sky, the cart with which Plácido traveled around the city to pay his debts, and the tractor tied to a parachute that Juan dreamed about WELCOME MR. Marshall before the imminent arrival of the American entourage in Villar del Río. It was Berlanga's first solo film (the only one, next to The Vaquilla, with which good money was earned), then he would be consecrated with Placid - who started a relationship of more than twenty years with the masterful screenwriter Rafael Azcona - and with The Executioner, selected to represent Spain at the Venice Festival. The magnificent posters of all of them and many others (The Shop, national shotgun…) they hang on the walls of the MuVIM together with iconic objects from his films, you will step on the vile club used by the executioner played by Pepe Isbert (The executioner), a mannequin reclining on the dentist's chair (natural size) and the bike Paris-Timbuktu. Also with the falla dedicated to the filmmaker that the XXX Mostra de Valencia planted in Plaça de l'Almoina at 2009 referring to his fetish for heels or the model of the História d'una mámála falla that Berlanga himself devised for the Town Hall square and the Mossen-Sorell commission and the artist Manolo García recovered in the 2007. chaotic, caustic, erotòman i sardònic, Berlanga will portray existential and political issues in a light-hearted way, using choral characters who speak without hearing each other, they act for their own benefit and never get to fulfill their dreams. His acratic character cost him confrontations with the censor, a circumstance that you can see in the MuVIM embodied in the censor papers that, for example, they propose to lighten the plan of a woman putting on stockings in the film Placid. Clinging to his realistic pessimism and his outrageous humor, Berlanga became a fabulous chronicler of Francoist Spain and the Transition thanks to scenes as round as that of WELCOME MR. Marshall where the mayor of Villar del Río addresses the town from the balcony: “As your mayor that I am, I owe you an explanation, and that explanation that I owe you, I'm going to pay you.". Can't say more or better. AU
