An Argentine Passion: Maria Luisa Bemberg and her Films
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Book Description
"Everyone who worked with Maria Luisa longed to work with her again because she was such a wonderful, inspirational woman. She had great guts and she broke new ground as a director."--Julie Christie. Maria Luisa Bemberg, who died in 1995, is one of Latin America's most popular film-makers. The only woman director in the region to have achieved consistent international success, she made her first feature at the age of fifty-eight. Born into a traditional, aristocratic Argentine family, her films focused above all on women's issues. The six features she made between 1980 and 1993 all have female leads who seek to transgress limits: from Camila O'Gorman, executed in the nineteenth century for her love of a Catholic priest, to the remarkable nun Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, Mexico's foremost colonial poet and intellectual, whose enquiring mind was a threat to the discipline of the Church. Bemberg was, as in the title of her second film, senora de nadie, nobody's woman. This is the first major study of Bemberg's work. It contains the views of those who worked with her--her producer, cinematographer, script writer, and actors--along with her own comments about her work.
About the Author
John King is Professor of Latin American Cultural History at the University of Warwick. Critic Sheila Whitaker, who first screened Bemberg's films in Britain, was Director of the London Film Festival and Head of Programming at the National Film Theatre in London. Rosa Bosch, well known for a wide variety of Latin American cinema programming, produced The Buena Vista Social Club.
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