Loves contrary. Garcia Marquez and the cinema of the Costa Rican director Maria Lourdes Cortes. Author: Mikel Espinosa Rodriguez
This Saturday at La Cabaña, the main site of the XXXI International Book Fair, the works Cinema by Garcia MarquezCuban critic Joel del Rio and Loves contrary. Garcia Marquez and cinemaCosta Rican director Maria Lourdes Cortes, PL reports.
Regarding both titles, Francisco López Sacha, also a writer, said that their content clashed with different conceptions of what the seventh art meant to Gabo, but they dealt differently with the successes and failures of Garciamarca’s work as presented in film.
López Sasha meant that the style of the Colombian writer and Nobel Prize winner in literature is very difficult to transfer to the screen, although in some films there were reflections of the extra-dimensionality of Gabo’s own magical realism.
For his part, Del Rio said he always wanted to write a book about García Márquez’s relationship with the seventh art.
He saw an opportunity when, in 2003, he began working at the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños, near Havana, and frequently visited the institution’s archives to find material that would later become his text.
Del Rio said he focused on the wonderful reflections that appear in some of the films based on Gabo’s works, as well as a “sea of interviews” in which the Colombian writer talks about cinema as well as his criticism.
Photo: Maykel Espinosa Rodriguez
This presentation preceded a talk about García Márquez led by intellectual friends who shared anecdotes and stories with an award-winning writer and world-class journalist.
In the Hall of Nicolás Guillén de la Cabaña, in the presence of Cuban Minister of Culture Alpidio Alonso, Jaime Abello, CEO and co-founder of the Gabo Foundation, spoke to the public; José Luis Diaz Grabados, poet and writer, director Lisandro Duque, all Colombian.
They were accompanied on the panel by the Cuban director Senel Paz and other personalities close to Gabo.
Source: Juventud Rebelde