The festival revisits the figures of directors Jean-Luc Godard, Blake Edwards, Mario Camus and Jane Campion, and celebrates the anniversaries of Jamón, Jamón; Nanook of the North and Vivre Sa Vie
The Valladolid International Film Festival will pay tribute to several filmmakers coinciding with the anniversaries of mythical films by screening a selection of titles in a retrospective named “For the Love of Cinema”. The section revisits the figures of master filmmakers such as Jean-Luc Godard, Blake Edwards, Mario Camus or Jane Campion, and offers viewers the chance to watch films like The Cursed Village, Jamón, Jamon, Nanook of the North and Vivre Sa Vie.
French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard, the father of the Nouvelle Vague and the author of mythical films like Breathless or Alphaville, will be one of the figures honoured by this retrospective The director, who died on September 13 at the age of 91, is the protagonist of the documentary Godard seul le cinéma (Cyril Leuthy, France, 2022), whose Spanish premiere will be hosted by Seminci. Narrated by the French actor Guillaume Gauix, the film addresses the figure of Godard beyond his 140 films through the testimony of numerous experts. In addition, his 1962 film Vivre sa vie, starring Anna Karina, Sady Rebbot and André S. Labarthe, will be screened in Valladolid on the 60th anniversary of its premiere.
Blake Edwards (1922-2010) is another of the directors honored at the Valladolid Festival on the occasion of the centenary of his birth. The author of Days of Wine and Roses, The Pink Panther or Victor/Victoria will be commemorated with the screening of The Party (1968), a comedy classic starring Peter Sellers. The Spaniard Mario Camus, who died in September 2021, will also be paid tribute with the screening of the documentary Mario Camus según el cine (Sigfrid Monleón, 2022), shot in the last year of his life. The film approaches Camus’s cinematic output and includes the director’s last testimony.
Also as part of “For the love of cinema”, Seminci will premiere in Spain the documentary Jane Campion, la femme cinéma (Julie Bertuccelli, France, 2022), dedicated to the New Zealand filmmaker, the first woman to win the Palme d’Or at Cannes for The Piano (1993) and also the first woman to be nominated twice for the Oscar for Best Director, which she won with her second nomination for The Power of the Dog (2022), in addition to garnering numerous awards, including the Silver Spike at the 36 Seminci for An Angel at my Table (1990).
Along with the tribute to these filmmakers, Seminci will be showing on the silver screen several classic films whose anniversary takes place this year, such as Robert J. Flaherty’s Nanook of the North (1922), a film considered to be the first documentary in history about the life of the Eskimos (Inuit), which Flaherty shot after six years as an explorer of the Arctic for the Canadian Northern Railway.
Last but not least, Seminci will program two titles already announced on this site as part of this special retrospective: Spain’s Jamón, Jamon (Bigas Luna, 1992), which turns 30 this year and which the festival will commemorate with a major exhibition at Las Francesas municipal exhibition hall including numerous prop items from the movie; and The Cursed Village (Florián Rey, 1930), whose restored print featuring 12 minutes of unpublished footage will be screened in the auditorium of the Miguel Delibes Cultural Center with live music by producer and composer Raül Refree.
