This year’s San Sebastian Film Festival is in mourning as Spanish director Mario Camus, celebrated for his sober but caring adaptations of distinguished Spanish novels such as “La Colme…
, celebrated for his sober but caring adaptations of distinguished Spanish novels such as “La Colmena” – written by Nobel prize winner Camilo José Cela – Ignacio Aldecoa’s “Young Sánchez” and “The Holy Innocents” by Miguel Delibes, died on Saturday in Santander, northern Spain, the city where he was born. Camus was 86.
He belonged to the so-called New Spanish Cinema generation which includes directors Carlos Saura – Camus collaborated with the Spanish master on his gritty 1959 feature debut “Los golfos” and second outing, 1963’s Buñuel-influenced Western “Weeping for a Bandit” – Basilio Martín Patino, José Luis Borau, Francisco Regueiro, Julio Diamante and Miguel Picazo.
Also noteworthy are two films with a charismatic Antonio Gades, 1966’s lyrical “Con el viento solano,” a Cannes Palme d’Or contender, where he plays a gitano on the run from the Spanish law, and the 1945-set “The Days of the Past,” where he’s a maqui who will not lay down his arms.
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