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Film Information:
Year:

1990

The Job of the Hunter
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Director:

Joaquim Jordà
Color:

Color
Format:

16 mm
Duration:

90 min

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Joaquim Jordà
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Carles Gusi
  • MONTAJE: Iván Aledo
  • PRODUCCIÓN: Joan Antoni González

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    Synopsis

    The African film footage of the hunter Jacinto Esteva (1936-1985) constitute the mystery that was the life of this man, once the promoter of the Barcelona School of Film and director –together with Jordà himself– of what is considered to be the School’s funding manifesto, Dante no es únicamente severo (1967). A product made for public TV that was stored for years in some lost shelve, Jordà’s documentary is also the portrait of an entire generation: Barcelona’s young bourgeois of the Sixties, who, like Esteva himself, wanted to live in eternal adolescence. Some managed to survive by accepting their own contradictions; others ended up in a self-destructive spiral that led them to experience the most outrageous adventures. In Esteva’s obituary, published in El País, Octavi Martí wrote quite accurately that when you see his films, you get the feeling that everything, the country and cinema, was too small for him. Jordà’s film leaves us with the impression of an unfathomable figure, but compensates by giving us Daría, her daughter and the true promoter of the project, one of the most captivating “characters” of Spanish cinema, only comparable to Leopoldo María Panero from The Disenchantment.

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