Do you know what are the Gabriel Garcia Marquez favorite movies? The Colombian literature Nobel Prize winner was not only a fan of cinema, but also wrote scripts.
Gabriel Garcia Marques is national pride, not only for having won the first Nobel Prize in Colombia, but because this recognition was for his excellence in the art of the word: literature; his novel One hundred years of solitude It is considered the masterpiece of magical realism, which has influenced popular culture in many ways, and even Disney was inspired by it for his movie. Charm.
Gabriel García Márquez’s 10 Favorite Movies
The film director Rodrigo Garcia Barcha, (eldest son of the writer) and the Gabo Center made a compilation of the writer’s favorite films and here we share 10 of the list.
Barbarossa (1965), directed by Akira Kurosawa
After graduating in medicine, a young man returns to his village hoping to get a job as a doctor for the shogun, but ends up employed in a low-level clinic run by the strange doctor Barbarossa.
The General (1926) Directed by Buster Keaton
In the midst of the American Civil War, the Confederates rob a locomotive engineer, called The General, while kidnapping his girlfriend. He sees this pair of tragedies as an opportunity to prove to his girl that he is not a coward for not being accepted into the army.
Bicycle Thief (1948), by Vittorio de Sica
During the postwar period, a Roman worker is robbed of his bicycle on the first day of work, which he had to buy to be accepted for employment. He then joins her son to look for her, but the story becomes an odyssey.
Canoe (1976), by Felipe Cazals
A film based on real events, it tells the story of a group of university students who are stranded in a lost town on the slopes of a volcano in Mexico, but the inhabitants, prisoners of paranoia, confuse them with radical communists.
The Adele H Story (1975), directed by François Truffaut
A romantic drama about the unrequited love of the daughter of celebrated writer Victor Hugo, who embarks on a journey to Nova Scotia to win back the love of a handsome English Army officer, only to be rejected by him.
Citizen Kane (1941), by Orson Welles
Following the death of media mogul Charles Foster Kane, journalist Jerry Thompson becomes obsessed with deciphering the meaning of his last deathbed word: «Rosebud…». During the report he interviews family and friends, however, the mystery gets out of hand.
Z (1969), by Costa Gavras
A journalist and a young magistrate each investigate on their own the political assassination of an opposition deputy in what could be any country in the world. They discover that the government uses its power to carry out selective assassinations, but that is only the beginning of the story.
Jules and Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut
Jules and Jim have been best friends since they were very young, however, they both fall in love with the same woman, who eventually ends up married to one of them.
the rifles (1963), by Ruy Guerra
In a remote town in Brazil, ravaged by poverty and hunger, representatives of the government arrive, but they do not bring food; it is the army, which arrives in order to prevent possible uprisings by civilians.
Play time (1967), by Jacques Tati
This comedy, apparently without a defined plot, is qualified as one of the most experimental films of this director. The film investigates the city as something that repeats itself, regardless of which city it is, and it does so through a group of American tourists and their encounter with a real Parisian.
Also on the list are Christ stopped at Eboli (1979), by Francesco Rosi; Providence (1977), by Alain Resnais; The conversation (1974), by Francis Ford Coppola; at the appointed time (1952), by Fred Zinnemann; dog afternoon (1975), by Sydney Lumet; Y straw dogs (1971), by Sam Peckinpah.
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