Pere Portabella Movies

An analysis of the construction mechanism for the magic in dominant narrative cinema though the filming of Nachts, wenn Dracula erwacht (1970), a commercial film by Jesús Franco.

Pont de Varsòvia is a movie starring Carme Elias, Francisco Guijar, and Jordi Dauder. A female professor, a writer, and an orchestra conductor -three characters, two couples- attend a grand literary cocktail party. The writer has...

Blending historical reconstruction with very loosely linked 'dramatic' scenes and documentary sequences, the film constitutes a playful, painterly sequence of variations on the argument that Johann Sebastian changed the way the world