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PRODUCTION TEAM
Director :
Carlos Saura
Script :
Carlos Saura
Photography :
Jos� Luis L�pez-Linares, Teo Delgado
Editor :
Julia Juaniz
Cast :
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SALOME
A�da G�mez is rehearsing a new ballet. Quickly, the choreography is taking shape with a girl whose suggestive dancing causes everyone on the set to take notice. The dancers applaud. Suddenly the crowd of dancers parts, revealing the silhouette of a man, a crooked figure in a wheelchair. He is Herod, king of Judah, and we are at his birthday party. Herodias, his wife, gets up to dance, but Herod only pays attention to his stepdaughter Salome. Like all the other guests, he is fascinated by her beauty. He gets up awkwardly, to try to dance with her, but he stumbles and she laughs at him. Humiliated, he sits back down. Herodias is jealous and mortified; she hates her daughter. But young Salome ignores her mother and keeps on dancing. Suddenly a handsome young man appears. He is John, known as the Baptist, a holy man loved by everyone. All stop to watch his entrance. Silence. Salome is dumfounded by his elegance and his natural authority... The director interrupts the dancing. John is a mystical figure who is also a man. How to convey both his material and spiritual presence? Maybe he should be pulled onstage on a small wheeled platform. Perhaps he should be naked from the waist up. Have him dance like a whirling Dervish, only with a long white flared skirt. Yes, that's it. The dancers rearrange themselves. The new John is stunning. The drama continues. Onstage and off.
Carlos Saura
Spain's best known director, Carlos Saura was born in 1932 and was strongly influenced, in his childhood, by his pianist mother and his artist older brother. He studied journalism and cinema before opting for the latter and making his directorial debut in 1958 with the short, Cuenca. The following year he made his first feature film, LOS GOLFOS, and he quickly moved into the vanguard of the new Spanish cinema. His films include: THE HUNT (1965), PEPPERMINT FRAPP� (1967), THE GARDEN OF DELIGHTS (1970), ANNA AND THE WOLVES (1972), COUSIN ANGELICA (1973), RAISE RAVENS (1975), BLINDFOLD (1978), BLOOD WEDDING (1981), CARMEN (1983), THE STILTS (1984), EL AMOR BRUJO (1985), EL DORADO (1987), THE DARK NIGHT (1989), FLAMENCO (1995), PAJARICO (1996), TANGO (1998) and GOYA IN BORDEAUX (1999). Many of these have been shown at the Montreal World Film Festival.
August 27, 2002 • 09:00:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.27.1 •
August 27, 2002 • 19:00:00 • IMP�RIAL • CI.27.5 •
August 28, 2002 • 16:30:00 • MAISONNEUVE • TM.28.1 •
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