Portabella Premiers at the MoMA:

The New York museum is holding a retrospective exhibit to celebrate the premier of his latest film “Die Stille vor Bach”.

EFE - New York - Sept. 11, 2007.

The movie director, Pere Portabella, will finally, at the age of 77 be able to attend the premier of his film Die Stille vor Bach (The Silence Before Bach), in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.  Thirty-five years ago, in 1972, he had the opportunity to premier his film Vampir-Cuadecuc but Franco’s government cancelled his passport:  on the 26th of September he will have his revenge with the retrospective exhibit in the museum in New York.

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Portabella, Bach and the Sound of Silence

Article published in the newspaper “Avui” on page 47, Friday, September 7, 2007. Elisabet Cabeza.

The Catalan director asks himself about the composer and cinema in a film presented at the Venice Film Festival.

A white screen is the beginning of The Silence Before Bach, the light that cinema is made of, the screen awaiting colors, the music score without notes.  Pere Portabella’s new film, presented yesterday in Venice outside the competition, orchestrates questions, presents suggestive images, a sense of humor and magic, demonstrating that the freshest, youngest cinema in this festival comes to us from veterans like the Catalan filmaker or the one hundred year old Manoel de Oliveira that Portabella so much admires.

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