Portabella’s first feature, co-scripted by poet Joan Brossa, became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avant-garde, although like all his early films, it circulated only in an underground fashion. Eschewing dialogue, the director constructs a non-narrative story in fragments that reveal the daily lives of an adulterous couple interspersed with a cryptic stream of unrelated imagery. The title of this homage to directors including Eisenstein, Antonioni, Bergman, and Buñuel refers to the 29 “black years” of the Franco dictatorship. — chicago.cervantes.es
Cast
Crew
Pere Portabella
Director, Screenplay, Story
Joan Brossa
Screenplay, Dialogue
Teresa Alcocer
Editor
Margarita Bernet
Assistant Editor
Luis Cuadrado
Director of Photography, Camera Operator
José Luis Ruiz Marcos
Assistant Director
Jacques Levy
Associate Producer
Anne Settimó
Associate Producer, Script Supervisor
Teo Escamilla
Camera Operator
Jordi Sangenís
Sound
Josep M. Mestres Quadreny
Original Music Composer
Carles Santos
Musician
Jaime Fernández-Cid
Production Manager
Santiago Rodríguez
Focus Puller
