In 1992, when the Olympics and the Expo at last presented Spain as an emerging new democracy, the de-industrialisation policies were met with riots in the southern town of Cartagena. The locals remember those days.

Luis López Carrasco was 11 years old when he saw the Spanish town Cartagena’s parliament burn on TV. A significant fact is that, now, those around him in his adulthood don’t seem to remember. With his second feature, The Year of the Discovery—a split-screen epic of 200 minutes and 45 characters—he tries to understand the economic, social and political events that led to it. Drawing on the testimonies by those who remember it, the film travels back in time to present workers and unemployed people, of all different ages, discussing at a café the various political and personal concerns of that time. Individual memories thus become grouped in a film-document for present and future generations, atoning for a collective pact of forgetfulness as recent as not even 30 years ago. What happened on an economical and political level is not foreign to many other countries: the Spanish liberal government pushed for an accelerated process of de-industrialisation in the name of a supposed economical progress, leaving the working class in distraught and the trade unions in despair.

That the viewer spends the almost entirety of the film listening to these more or less casual conversations, immersed in the interior of a café is of no small significance. A bold and effective storytelling choice from López Carrasco which mimics that original act of him and his co-screenwriter Raúl Liarte who—imbued in a remarkable spirit of civic commitment— interviewed the workers and union leaders who had rarely been heard before. A monumental ode to the role of cinema as an act of listening and of rescuing from oblivion what dominant History might not want to keep a memory of.
Ana David

3.56GB | 3h 20m | 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/EA9C90041ADD56A/Luis_Lopez_Carrasco_-_The_Year_of_the_Discovery_1280x720_WEB.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/0530A40E53C2EF8/Luis_López_Carrasco_-_The_Year_of_the_Discovery_1280x720_WEB_en.srt

Language:Spanish
Subtitles:English

The post Luis López Carrasco – El año del descubrimiento Aka The Year of the Discovery (2020) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
El futuro opens with the news, over a black background, of Felipe González’s recent electoral victory in 1982. A preamble before the camera moves into the heart of a party. However it only gives a distant, dull view of the dancing and flirting of the modern youth of that time. Amidst the alcohol, the constant music and conversations captured in passing –very often in an oblique way-, López Carrasco (from the Collective Los Hijos) gives the impression of time standing still, of progress halted by tedium, that crystallizes in the uneasy sensation summoned up by that future of the title. An eloquent end to the party and a dawn, 30 years later, that opens multiple doors for thinking.

https://nitroflare.com/view/F04D916FFFBC51B/El_futuro_(Luis_López_Carrasco,_2013).mkv

Language(s):Spanish
Subtitles:Hardcoded English

The post Luis López Carrasco – El futuro AKA The Future (2013) first appeared on Cinema of the World.