Manderley

Film Information:
Year:

1980

Manderley

País:

 

Director:

Jesús Garay

Color:

Color

Format:

Digibeta

Duration:

104 min

Cast:

  • José Ocaña, Enrique Rada, Juan Ferrer,
  • Pío Muriedas

Production:

  • GUIÓN: Jesús Garay
  • FOTOGRAFÍA: Carles Gusi
  • MONTAJE: Josep Maria Aragonès

Contact:

  • Filmoteca de Catalunya
  • Carrer del Portal de
  • Santa Madrona, 6-8
  • 08001 Barcelona, Spain
  • T +34 93 316 2780
  • F +34 93 316 2783
  • E filmoteca.cultura@gencat.cat

Synopsis

Jesus Garay set out to make Manderley following a series of amateur experimental short films he had made in his hometown of Santander and Barcelona –the city where he settled in the early sixties–, as well as a first feature in which he filtered the underground scene of those years through Jules Verne’s fantastic chimeras –Nemo (1978). A particular adventure that features fiction and testimony, evocation and interview, the portrait of an artist (painter José Ocaña) and the Romantic influence of the mansion from Hitchcock’s Rebecca transmuted into the Peter Panesque set of Neverland. Shot during the summer in 16mm with live sound, the film was supposed to be one thing and ended up being something different. On paper, it was the collision of three homosexual characters whose journey fascinated Garay; but one of them fell off the project and was replaced by an actor playing an actor. And that’s what Manderlay is: a never ending mirror game (with cinema, with reality, with intangible dreams and unfulfilled promises), a phantasmagoria with Manderlay in the background, a renunciation, a chimera, a memory, a dream, and also, a priceless testimony of its time.

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