The Films of Carlos Saura: The Practice of Seeing

Spanish filmmaker Carlos Saura, who began his career under the censorship of Franco's regime, has forged an international reputation for his unique cinematic treatment of emotional and spiritual responses to repressive political conditions. In films such as Carmen and El Dorado, where reality and fantasy are deliberately fused together, Saura reveals the illusions of Franco's mythologized Spain—a chaste, Catholic, and heroic Spain of the Golden Age—that tend to isolate Spaniards from the re...