Nocturne 29

Release Date: 1969-07-01

Overview: 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

Rating: 5.25 / 10

Cast

Lucia Bosè

as Señora (as Lucia Bose)

Mario Cabré

as Señor (as Mario Cabre)

Luis Ciges

as

Ramón Julia

as (as Ramon Julia)

Antonio Saura

as