Después de tenocho largometrajes – more new or ten short, medium-length films and films on TV – r twenty five booksGonzalo Suárez (Oviedo, 1934) returns to the scene of the crime. Return to Barcelona and get the Goya de Honor.
Originally from Paris, Suárez left for Barcelona in 1958 to enjoy happiness and, while four children were born, realism between 1963 and 1970.
The crime program consisted of two short films (The terrible thing was never seen y Ditirambo sails for us) and the big three (Ditirambo, Extraño the case of Dr. Faust y Oom) and in five books (From the current body of Los Once y uno, Trece veces trece, El roedor de Fortimbras y Rocabruno bate in Ditirambo).
Ah, there was something, in the style and attitude of Jean-Luc Godard and Boris Vian. He enthusiastically explained to Julio Cortázar and Sam Peckinpah, with whom he wrote a guide to bringing his unusual spy novel to the cinema in Los Angeles. Operation Double Dos (1974), a lyrical experience that Suárez recognized in her Gorilla in Hollywood (1980) and in his autobiographical (in more detail) A pushy muse (2019).
In subverting journalism with his articles under the pseudonym Martín Girard – learn about copying The sole of my zapatos (2006) – Suárez was an occasional member of the Barcelona School and Vicente Aranda, with whom he wrote Mirage (1965) and adapted his story to it Las of cruelty (1969).
Originally from Paris, he went to Barcelona in 1958 to enjoy his fortune, between 1963 and 1970 realism
The company Pero Suárez, a bitter individualistI don’t pretend to be complicit, I don’t appreciate groups. No prisoners. Yes, she had four decisive aliases in her life: her father, the French professor, translator and writer Gonzalo Suárez Gómez, who inspired her to freedom and Stevensonian adventure; na mujer, Hélène Girard, tierra y alas; about Herman Carlos, the director of ten of his films; and her master, Helenio Herrera, the famous coach of Barcelona and Inter, who employed her as an analyst and started with football. You may find that your advice resonates with you Porter (2000), but the main one was the one who applied life to the cinema: don’t look where the ball is, look where the shade is.
Searching for a suit and like a proper billiards player in the carom position just shoot – here I have to decide – two of the most important Spanish realist novels of the 19th century: for cinema, Regent (1974), de Clarín; for television, a hit series The city of Ulloa (1985), Pardo Bazán.
And the color that wasn’t there, but was open to me and to all of us, I dressed him with his unique personalityafter innovative attempts Disease (1971) y To hell with love (1972), with films as Parranda (1977), Epilogue (1984), Rowing in the wind (1988) – at the main meeting with the public and with the awards –, Don Juan in Hell (1991), Anonymous Queen (1992), El detective y la muerte (1994), My name is shadow (1995) y Oviedo Express (2007).
In these movies, as in many of your books, they were added to the cart Citizen of Sade (1999) y The man who dreamed dreamed (2005)–, a complete list of Suárez with his incurable taste for aphorisms, paradoxes and words – about playing – can be found in With the sky at your fingertips (2015): “To discover the truth, you have to invent it”.
Imaginative and unexpected dialogues, character names and unpredictable titles, dream, myths (Frankenstein, Don Juan, Fausto, Hamlet…), doppelgänger, creative processes – which for Suárez a boxer with his own shadow–, humor, love and crime, monster, time, fusion and flight of the sexes, Asturias, the sea or adventure, these are some of the themes and emblems that flash in cinema and literature – always at the forefront and at the limit of possibilities – and there is no need to confuse them. And always shoot from a lying gun that tells the truth.
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