Muere Enrique Pineda Barnet, Cuban filmmaker who recorded the musical melodrama | Culture

Recognized internationally by La bella del Alhambra, the first Cuban film to win a Goya (1990) award, beating all the records of tequila in his country, Enrique Pineda Barnet was one of the greats of Cuban cinema, although his fictional algorithms did not make it, he always chose it a wealth of creative experimentation and decisive intelligence in comfort zones. Pineda Barnet’s fall of the 12th year in La Habana, at the age of 87, has been the last day for a young man, with a clear mind and a sense of cult and apocalyptic humor, qualities that will inspire admiration in the new generations of Cuban documentalists and filmmakers, who will always find the opening of their house to receive help or advice.

It was one of the founders of the legendary cultural society Nuestro Tiempo, and although its vocation was primarily about music, it was very easy to start writing and dedicating itself to the dramaturgy and the world of the tables. In 1962 he entered as a director at the recent creation of the Cubano Institute of Art and Cinematographic Industry (ICAIC), which he made his first major documentary, Giselle, a performance of the bailarina Alicia Alonso and around the world of dance, but from the cinematographic language, films that are highly watched as a reference in a country of balletómanos.

Luego participated in one of the great adventures of Cuban cinema, the road of Soja Kuba (1964), a film directed by Russian director Mijaíl Kalatózov, in which he was the assessor and co-author of the story with the poet Evgueni Evtushenko. Soja Kuba pretending to be the epiphany of the triumph of the next revolution with an aesthetic and an epic language, very much in the Soviet Union, but resulting in a strange streak, both in Moscow and in Habana. Pineda Barnet always regrets it. “I do not intend to do anything”, he says through the window, and this opinion does not change when, a few years later, Kalatózov’s darkened pelican — which from the point of view of photography was impressive, with some influential sequencing plans – redub Martin Scorsese and Francis Ford Coppola, who will be considered a masterpiece. Pineda Barnet —Record The Cinematographic Critic Luciano Castillo — Today is the Last Moment Soja Kuba geen era “nothing to be applauded”.

Cosmorama (1964) was the first experimental court to direct and call the attention of critics. Many documentaries, some of them dedicated to revolutionary heroes, always keep their distance and deepening in the human race, can focus on men with their contradictions always have a constant in their minds and thoughts.

Colaboró ​​also in the guion of Queimada, by Gillo Pontecorvo, and in 1983 directed Amar time, which follows the relationship of a couple obliged to separate during the crisis of the missiles of 1962. Peru fue con el musical La bella del Alhambra (1989), inspired by the novel Witness Rachel’s Song, by Miguel Barnet, that the law is the right and the national and international reconciliation.

The film, conceived as a major homage to the Cuban theater buffalo and the creepy traditions and traditions that flourished in this particular colloquium that the Alhambra Theater, in times of the Republic, was converted into national passion in Cuban millennia . And 1990 fue distinguished with El Goya a la mejor película extranjera de habla hispana.

More than a musical, Pineda Barnet said, La bella del Alhambra “It’s a musical melodrama, or a melodrama with music”. Defending that the melodrama was “a dramatic genre as valid as tragedy, comedy, picaresca, farce, or any other”, ensuring that its pelican pretends to recreate “theatrical traditions and the essence of our Cuban music, musical tradition with new stamps and with new images for the new oyos and the new oidos: la juventud ”.

Docentcia y juventud eran muy importantes para Pineda Barnet, primio Nacional de Cine en 2006 y durante años profesor de la Escuela de Cine de San Antonio de los Baños. When I visit the house of Vedado, I always meet some novelist or student debating with projects, in order to always appreciate his support and collaboration. When digital technology was disrupted in cinema, it was all a veteran, but it was launched with enthusiasm in the cambio and was one of the first to roam the new rooms. I realized The announcement, filmed in a solo location and reunited with the Grand Prix of the Cine Pobre Festival by Humberto Solás. The film reads about it: “People, by all means the differences, then the mayor does not say that we are different”.