#Enrique Guitart

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Enrique Guitart-Sara Montiel "Vidas confusas" 1949, de Jerónimo Mihura.

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  Congratulations and thanks to the Filmoteca Española for this inventive and valuable response to the current pandemic. They´ve had to close the Cine Doré in Madrid, but have put up the newly restored Noventa minutos/ 90 minutes, along with program notes and a report on the film´s restoration, online so people shut indoors can continue to see and discuss film classics and the nation´s film heritage, often, and certainly in the case of Noventa minutos, not the same thing. The online program is titled ‘Doré en casa’/The Doré Cinema from Home and can be seen here:

They´ve included programme notes on the film by José Luis Castro: 90 minutos José Luis Castro hola de sala

and a report on the history and various factors involved in the film´s restoration: restauración 90 minutos María Muñoz.

I thought it a pity they didn´t include a version with English sub-titles as it would certainly have increased the potential audience for the film. But then it is a service for Spanish people in Spain so why should they?

Noventa minutos/ Ninety minutes is a film that people interested in Francoist Spanish culture will be fascinated by. It was made by a team of filmmakers who´d fought on the Republican side of the Spanish civil war –something of an achievement in itself in the late forties, years of hunger and retribution — and by a filmmaker from a poor peasant background, Antonio del Amo (Pedro Almodóvar is the only other one I know of comparable background). When I saw it I thought of doing a video essay on how it exemplifies aspects of Francoist culture (the military, gender, religion, motherhood) but then read in the essay notes accompanying the film that it brushed against the censorship norms of the time, due to its advocacy for peace, and that according to J.C Seguín the fim is ‘a clear reflexion on and condemnation of the civil war and its disasters ({se trata de hecho} de una clara reflexión y una condena de la guerra civil y sus desastres), something I´d not cottoned on to, and all of which makes it even more fascinating.

The film is interestingly set in London during the Blitz and should be of particular enjoyment and interest to British friends. It begins with  a set of bobbies. They  look nothing like bobbies so might in fact military police patrolling the neighbourhood or it could just be part of the aesthetic of poverty so prevalent in Spanish cinema of the period. The bobbies talk about, and introduce us to, the inhabitants of a particular building,:Mrs. Winter (Julia Caba Alba) who lives with and strictly controls her daughter Helen (Lolita Moreno),  a Spanish colonel and his grandson: a Spanish Doctor, Eugenia Suárez (Nani Fernández), a nervous Mr Marchand (Fernando Fernán-Gómez in an early role) and his wife who´s expecting at any moment; and key to our narrative, Mrs. Dupont (Mary Lamar) and her husband (José Jaspe)

Mrs. Dupont was once in love with and wrote letters to Albert (Jacinto San Emeterio) now in her home trying to blackmail her with them. He wants 500 pounds and sex. She´s only got 300 and is about to be taken advantage of at the very moment her husband walks in. She leads Albert into another room to hide , and that´s where the blackmailer comes face to face with a burglar, Richard (Enrique Guitart). They know and dislike each other, the burglar finding the blackmailer a cad. As they tussle with each other a bomb goes off, the blackmailer escapes, but the burglar, hurt now, is forced to descend into the bomb shelter along with the other inhabitants of the building.

Most of the action takes place in one set, the bomb shelter, a good way of making films in the cheap, and particularly economical considering the whole film was shot at night to take advantage of the sets used during the day for El santuario no se rinde [A. Ruíz-Castillo, 1949). The set-up reminded me of Jean-Paul Sartre´s Huis Clos, the being enclosed, the feeling of having no way out, the way each of the characters is a jumping point to a discussion of ideas. It´s filmed bu Juan Mariné with great skill and careful use of lighting, with skilful compositions, and expressive shallow focus. These are filmmakers who knew what they were doing but didn´t quite have the means to realise their ideas or make the best use of their skills.

The film innocently expresses very rigid notions of gender (you´re a real man), the delight when the baby born is a boy) and of romance (like when the doctor who´s now fallen in love with the burgler rushes to say it´s her first kiss’; on Spanishness  ´you as a Spaniard will understand’; and on Catholicism, Catholicism is the most beautiful religion, the urge to baptise the baby, the significance of the cross. How this ideology brushes up against it also being ”a clear reflexion on and condemnation of the civil war and its disasters’ is one of the reasons the film remains so interesting. But it´s not the only one. The plot is ingenious. The cinematography, carefully considered. We have on view already several different types of traditions of Spanish acting (Julia Caba Alba vs. Fernán-Gomez etc.

  I´m grateful to Cine Doré for allowing me to see something I´d otherwise have great trouble accessing.

  José Arroyo

  Further image/notes:

          Noventa minutos/Ninety minutes (Antonio del Amo, Spain, 1949) Congratulations and thanks to the Filmoteca Española for this inventive and valuable response to the current pandemic.

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Listado de Personas Aptas para Participar del Sorteo de Viviendas Sociales

La Municipalidad de Catriel, da a conocer el listado de personas que participarán del sortero de las viviendas sociales.

Estas personas, debieron pasar tras su solicitud, por una seria de estudios y controles socioeconómicos los cuales les permite estar incluidas en este sorteo.

No obstante, los incorporados en el listado, podrán ser excluidos por si mismos o impugnados por terceros, hasta el día 7 de Septiembre inclusive, en Políticas Sociales en horario de 8 a12 hs.

Este listado fue definido según los parámetros de la Ley Municipal N°955/17, la cual se puede retirar en la Legislatura Municipal  en horario de 6 a 13 hs.

      LISTADO PRE -SORTEO VIVIENDAS SOCIALES                       FAMILIAS         Orden Apellido y Nombre D.N.I 1 Arguello Enrique- Pardo Patricia Noelia 32474234-33302397 2 Bertoto Irma- Salazar Cesar Arnaldo 26257344-16842799 3 Cirica Aldana Mabel-Coronel Juan Ignacio 37759008-35663459 4 Coronel Antonio- Pérez Daniela 32817348 5 Duran Blanca-Rebolledo Sergio Ariel 20122867-25354210 6 Garay Paola Antonella-Valdebenito Fabián 39353890-35731645 7 Manteiga Cintia Alejandra-Sombra David Esteban 33316652-33302307 8 Mendoza Raquel Elizabeth-Avalo Sergio 33302360-29283564 9 Muzzi María José-Salazar Jorge Gabriel 36963670-35879335 10 Navarro Gladis Noemí- Vilo Gustavo 25184900-22619452 11 Siromski Fabio- Iriarte Navarro Patricia 32247085-94595696 12 Villegas Diego David- Pavéz Noelia Gisel 32529476-27718026 13 Romero María José-Rojas Martin Armando 28981357-28981142 14 Bravo Florencia/ Fuentes Diego 33485696-40111020               DISCAPACIDAD         Orden Apellido y Nombre D.N.I. 1 Castro Claudia Alejandra 24581558 2 Escudero Mara 35885878 3 Fernández Marcos Antonio 28559298 4 González Ambrosio Castro Claudia 24581558 5 Kuchma Carina Fabiana 22855439 6 Reyes Marianela Gisel 40068335 7 Montiel Belén Ivana 34659135                     MADRE SOLTERA         Orden Apellido y Nombre D.N.I. 1 Abarca Natalia 28981276 2 Albornoz Fabiana Mailene 35886313 3 Arancibia Natalí Roxana 14688700 4 Asencio Maira Yanet 34659115 5 Asencio Marta Griselda 32529575 6 Asencio Mayra Yanet 34659115 7 Breve Alejandra 28559192 8 Campo Mayra Yanet 33302369 9 Cares Noelia Noemí 35885815 10 Caso Mónica Beatriz 14657005 11 Cirica Andrea Johana 39866447 12 Cirica Dalma Nerea 38432039 13 Coronado María Marta 39584820 14 Cruce Valeria Yanet 32529346 15 Curín Yamila Ayelen 41591227 16 Díaz Verónica 30233446 17 Díaz Yamila Soledad 39869622 18 Escudero Samanta 38432388 19 Espejo María José 29755042 20 García Liliana 20336240 21 Gauron Juliana Mailén 40321891 22 Guitart Liliana 31665400 23 Gutiérrez Alejandra 24154374 24 Hernández Mayra Beatriz 37759257 25 Iriarte Navarro Vivian 94.719.631 26 Juárez  Norma Estela 12679147 27 Leproivre Melisa 37759187 28 Mármol Érica Elizabeth 35886436 29 Martínez Cintia Yanet 32529347 30 Matías Gisela Ester 33584093 31 Mecías Melisa Janet 37401097 32 Medina Virginia 5019529 33 Montiel Mariana Gabriela 29755103 34 Moreira Bárbara Nicole 38432319 35 Moya Natalia Vanina 37758910 36 Muñoz Rosa Esther 35885867 37 Navarro Gladis Noemí 25184900 38 Olatte Ferreyra Viviana P. 25725177 39 Palomo Vanesa Jorgelina 28981384 40 Pereyra Mariana Yanet 35032370 41 Ponce Cintia Natalí 32247104 42 Ponce Micaela Adelaida 37598995 43 Reinoso Daiana 37832865 44 Reyes Cristina Guadalupe 35886222 45 Rodríguez Mirian 27752341 46 Rojas Marianela Estefanía 18860358 47 Rubilar Carla Mariana 30496428 48 Ruiz Antonella 39584834 49 Sánchez Zulma 35886500 50 Santana Jessica María Alejandra 33941882 51 Valdebenito Jessica Mariana 33302306 52 Vara Jennifer Micaela 38432148 53 Zuñega Canales Daiana G 35032387 54 Zúñiga Jennifer Gisel 35032429 56 Rosas Graciela Noemí 16394547 57 Espinosa Ayelen 35886083

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operacion dalila

Colaboración Hispano Americana de 1967. El poster es de MAC

operacion dalila was originally published on culturacine.com