#marisa paredes

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Marisa Paredes by Roberto Álamo

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Wir machen mit den Almodóvars weiter und mit einem angemesseneren Gedenkfilm für Marisa Peredes: In Tacones lejanos gibt sie so dermaßen die Diva, daß es kaum auszuhalten ist. Besonders nicht für ihre Tochter, die irritierenderweise einen ihrer ehemaligen Liebhaber geheiratet hat. Der prompt ermordet wird. Es ist eine interessante Mischung aus Familientragödie, Krimi und absurder Farce mit angeklebten Bärten und so. Wenn man genau hinschaut, taucht kurz Javier Bardem in seiner zweiten Filmrolle auf.

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La flor de mi secreto (1995)

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Marisa Paredes

Spanish star of films by Pedro Almodóvar, Guillermo del Toro and Roberto Benigni, and a champion of leftwing causes

The actor Marisa Paredes, who has died suddenly aged 78, was renowned for her elegance and “calm grace, that gentle cheerfulness that she ignited with one look of her pale eyes”, in the words of Gilles Jacob, former president of the Cannes film festival. She is best known for her roles in six films directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

After seeing her in a play, Almodóvar cast her as Sor Estiércol (Sister Manure) in Entre Tinieblas (Dark Habits, 1983). Later, she starred in his surreal melodrama Tacones Lejanos (High Heels, 1991). For her performance as a writer of romantic novels in his slightly more sober La Flor de Mi Secreto (The Flower of My Secret, 1995), she was nominated for a Goya best actress award. She also featured in Almodóvar’s Oscar-winning Todo Sobre Mi Madre (All About My Mother, 1999).

She became one of Spanish cinema’s great figures, but was also outspoken throughout her life in support of leftwing causes. As president of Spain’s film academy from 2000 to 2003, she attacked the participation of José María Aznar’s Conservative government in the planned invasion of Iraq. Her televised speech at the annual Goya awards in 2003 helped mobilise mass demonstrations: “There is no need to be afraid of culture, entertainment or freedom of expression, and much less satire or humour. We should be afraid of ignorance and dogmatism. We should be afraid of war.”

In the 1980s Paredes built a solid reputation in Spanish cinema, working with up-and-coming young directors, such as Fernando Trueba in Ópera Prima (Debut, 1980), Jaime Chávarri, Jaime Rosales and Agustí Vilaronga in Tras el Cristal (In a Glass Cage, 1986). Her performance in Vilaronga’s macabre anti-Nazi film was her own favourite. For José Sacristán’s comedy Cara de Acelga (Like Death Warmed Up, 1987) she was nominated for a Goya as best supporting actress.

In the 90s, her leading parts in Almodóvar films broadened her career into international cinema. She worked with Alain Tanner in France, Manoel de Oliveira in Portugal and shot two films with the Mexican Arturo Ripstein: Pintura Carmesí (Deep Crimson, 1996) and El Coronel No Tiene Quien le Escriba (No One Writes to the Colonel, 1999), a successful adaptation of a Gabriel García Márquez novel. She was in the Italian Roberto Benigni’s La Vita è Bella (Life Is Beautiful, 1997) and Guillermo del Toro’s El Espinazo del Diablo (The Devil’s Backbone, 2001). Over her six-decade career, she acted in more than 70 films.

The youngest of four daughters, Marisa was born in Madrid, in the block of flats on Plaza de Santa Ana where her mother, Petra (nee Bartolomé), was the concierge. Her father, Lucio Paredes, worked in the El Águila beer factory. These were years of hunger after the civil war (1936-39) and her family was poor. From the age of six, she told her mother she wanted to be an actor: the Teatro Español, one of the city’s main theatres, just across the square from her home, inspired her. Reasonably, her parents opposed this insecure career: they aspired for her to become a secretary. Paredes was always proud of her working-class origins. “My elegance comes from my grandfather, who was a farm-worker,” she would say.

Focused on her ambition, she left school aged 11, defeated parental opposition to study at the Madrid dramatic arts school and pushed her way into small film roles at the age of 14. In 1962 she met Fernando Fernán-Gómez, anarchist and brilliant actor and director, who helped mould both her acting and her view of the world. She acted in his film El Mundo Sigue (The World Continues, 1965).

In the 60s and 70s she worked in many films without breaking through to leading roles. The story was different on Televisión Española, where she acted in around 80 plays, often dramatisations of novels. “I had the good fortune that, as I don’t look Spanish ... when television was cultured and broadcast plays, I was in all the dramas of Chekhov, Dostoevsky, Ibsen. I was the Russian soul,” Paredes explained. She was an all-round talent, acting not just in theatre and highbrow TV, but in musicals, comedies and even a spaghetti western.

With her height, aristocratic bearing and blond hair, Paredes was reminiscent of a classic Hollywood star. Yet she was not vain: she had a warm smile and generous nature, and had the enthralling gift of great screen actors of expressing emotion with a single look or grimace.

She won prizes for her theatre, television and film work, and an honorary Goya for her career in 2018.

Paredes supported #MeToo vigorously and campaigned in the July 2023 general election for Sumar, the junior leftwing partner in Spain’s coalition government. As recently as 30 November, she read the manifesto in a demonstration against Israel’s actions in Gaza. She understood her political commitment in no narrow terms: “Freedom, education and culture are fundamental to human life. This is what remains. Art is what remains.”

Paredes had a daughter, María, with the film director Antonio Isasi-Isasmendi in 1975. From 1980 until her death she lived with José María Prado, director for 27 years of the Filmoteca Española (Spain’s film institute). She did not believe in marriage.

Prado and María survive her.

🔔 Marisa (María Luisa) Paredes Bartolomé, actor, born 3 April 1946; died 17 December 2024

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Marisa Paredes

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Eterna

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Marisa Paredes' daughter Maria Isasi: Who is she, how old is she, and who is her husband?

The news of the death of the legendary Spanish actress Marisa Paredes on December 16, 2024 has shaken the world of cinema and her fans. At 78 years of age , Marisa left an immense void, especially in her daughter, María Isasi , who has followed in her footsteps in acting and who has been visibly affected by this loss. Marisa Paredes’ last public appearance took place just one day before her…

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Den KZ-Arzt im Exil überkommt nach einer Weile das Bedürfnis, doch mal wieder einen kleinen Jungen zu foltern. Aus Verzweiflung darüber stürzt er sich erfolglos vom höchsten Turm und vegetiert nun in einem gläsernen Käfig, sprich: Eisernen Lunge dahin, betreut von der liebenden Gattin (Marisa Paredes*) und dem Töchterlein. Der putzige neue Krankenpfleger weiß von seinen Gräueltaten und übernimmt die Kontrolle, weil er in seine Fußstapfen treten will: Pädophilie, Sadismus, Nazigräuelfetischismus, alles geboten! Tras el cristal sei ein großartiger Film, sagt John Waters, aber er hat Angst davor, ihn seinen Freunden zu zeigen. * als Gedenkfilm stellte es sich nicht ganz als ideal heraus, da es -Achtung! Spielverderber-Alarm!- mit ihrer Rolle ein vergleichsweise frühes Ende nimmt.

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Marisa Paredes 1946 † 2024

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Marisa Paredes

La vita di un’attrice è come una giostra, come la roulette della fortuna. Molti registi si sono fidati di me e sono stata fortunata a fidarmi anch’io di loro.

Marisa Paredes è stata una straordinaria e intensa attrice.

Elegante, talentuosa, appassionata, amata in Spagna e nel mondo, ha ricevuto diversi importanti riconoscimenti. Nel 2000 è stata presidente della giuria del Festival di Berlino e presidente dell’Accademia del Cinema Spagnolo. È stata insignita del Premio nazionale del Cinema nel 1996, della Medaglia d’Oro al Merito delle Belle Arti nel 2007, del Goya d’Onore nel 2018 e del Lorca d’Onore del Festival di Granada nel 2024.

Nata col nome di María Luisa Paredes Bartolomé, il 3 aprile 1946 a Madrid, la sua è stata una storia di riscatto. Era la più giovane di quattro fratelli in una famiglia operaia, ha lasciato presto la scuola e iniziato a lavorare come apprendista sarta. Ma la passione per la recitazione era potente e a soli 14 anni già faceva la comparsa al cinema. Grande il suo amore per il teatro dove ha interpretato tutti i grandi contemporanei e che non ha mai abbandonato nonostante l’intensa attività televisiva prima e cinematografica, poi. 

Il successo è arrivato nel 1980, grazie a Opera Prima di Fernando Trueba prima di diventare una delle attrici preferite di Pedro Almódovar che l’ha diretta in L’indiscreto fascino del peccato, del 1983, Tacchi a spillo del 1991, Il fiore del mio segreto del 1995, che le è valso un Premio Goya, Tutto su mia madre del 1999, che ha ottenuto l’Oscar e il Golden Globe come miglior film straniero, Parla con lei del 2002 e La pelle che abito del 2011. Ha anche fatto parte del cast del film premio Oscar di Roberto Benigni La vita è bella.

Ironica, brillante, intelligente, grande è stato il suo impegno sociale e politico. Da presidente dell’Accademia del Cinema è stata in prima fila contro la guerra in Iraq, l’ultima volta, in novembre 2024 si è esposta pubblicamente per fermare i bombardamenti a Gaza, negli anni ha fatto sentire il suo contributo contro la cultura dell’odio e le guerre, ha manifestato accanto a lavoratori e lavoratrici dello spettacolo e sfilato in piazza per i diritti delle donne e delle persone lgbtq+.

È morta il 17 dicembre 2024 a Madrid a causa di un attacco cardiaco.

Ha lasciato un segno indelebile nella cultura spagnola e nell’immaginario di tutte e tutti noi che abbiamo sognato con i suoi personaggi.

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Habla Con Ella/Talk the Her (2002)

dir. by Almodóvar

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Marisa Paredes