Stars:Christopher Lee
โข
Jeannine Mestre
โข
Miguel Bilbatรบa
This film turns on two basic axes: the inquiry into ways of cinematographic representation and a critical image of official Spain at the time of the Franco dictatorship. โMontage of attractionsโ and Brechtianism in strong doses. Umbracle is made up of fragments (some are archive footage) that resound rather than progress by unusual links, with dejรก vu scenes that promise us more but remain tensely unfinished. Jonathan Rosembaun said: โfew directors since Resnais have played so ruthlessly with the unconscious narrative expectations to bug usโ. Learning from the feeling of strangeness caused by Rossellini as he threw well known actors into savage scenery in southern Europe. Portabella makes Christopher Lee wander around a dream-like Barcelona. Without a doubt Portabellaโs most structurally complex and most profoundly political film, that is ferociously poetic.