Pablo Berger's Torremolinos 73: A Post-Modern Look at Late-Franco Spain
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https://doi.org/10.24310/Fotocinema.2020.v0i20.7591Keywords:
Torremolinos 73, Pablo Berger, memory, postmodernity, deformationAbstract
In 2003 Pablo Berger released his first feature film, Torremolinos 73, a comedy set in late-Franco Spain. This film is the cinematographic transposition of the authentic itinerary of an aspiring Spanish filmmaker of the 1970s, author of a pornographic film that ended up being marketed in Denmark. The temporal context in which the protagonist's story takes place is a pretext for recreating a pre-democratic era from which Berger preserves above all consumer culture, making the film the place of a popular memory. The aim of this work is to examine how the film director appropriates the fragments of an essentially mediatic memory, voluntarily excluding any historical or open political discourse, in order to offer a stylized, atomized and distorted representation of the period re-imagined in a postmodern way. The recycling of musical and cinematographic references is governed by strategies of deformation and parodic rewriting that fully inscribe Berger's film in Spanish postmodern cinema, while the abysmal construction of the film produces a self-reflexive discourse on the seventh art and its creative mechanisms in the director's own work.
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