Nocturne 29

Portabellas first feature coscripted by poet Joan Brossa became one of the most influential works of the Barcelona avantgarde although like all his early films it circulated only in an underground fashion Eschewing dialogue the director constructs a nonnarrative story in fragments that reveal the daily lives of an adulterous couple interspersed with a cryptic stream of unrelated imagery The title of this homage to directors including Eisenstein Antonioni Bergman and Buñuel refers to the 29 black years of the Franco dictatorship chicagocervanteses