Plano/Contraplano Film Series
How Green Was My Valley!

  Wednesday, 26 Feb
  18:00 h How Green Was My Valley. John Ford, United States, 1941, 118 minutes. VOSE
  5€* (Includes both screenings)

Film screening and subsequent discussion with Carlos Losilla, film critic and university professor.

John Ford's How Green Was My Valley (1941) proposes a story that occupies the space generated by the infinite gazes of the miners and workers portrayed by Pierre Gonnord. The world of work and the mine serve as a pretext for Ford to stage the dialectic of individuality in the family when it faces a social change that brings about the end of its era and way of life. In this period of the American filmmaker's career, his cinema is based on the search for personal identity, found in the family, tradition, duty or profession. In Ford's and Gonnord's portraits, duty, devoid of ambiguity, is synonymous with destiny. Far from experiencing identity problems, the characters gain strength through their class consciousness: an individual represents his or her specific culture. 

Carlos Losilla

Writer. Member of the editorial board of the magazine Caimán Cuadernos de Cinehas worked as a film critic, among other publications, in the following magazines Directed by y Time Out, as well as in the Avui, in the supplement Culture(s) from La Vanguardia and, now, in Politics & Prose. Professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra and ESCAC, he is also part of the programming team of the Festival de Cinema D'Autor de Barcelona (D'A). His books as an author include Horror movies (1993), In search of Ulrich Seidl (2003), The invention of Hollywood (2003), The Siege of Vienna (2010), The invention of modernity (2011), Shaded area (2014), Raoul Walsh (2020) o Wanderings (2021). As coordinator, he has recently published Memory in images (2021), The blank page or how to imagine a hypothetical anti-history of cinema (2023) y Mirror of passions: Modern/Contemporary (2024).