UK Premiere of Deprisa, Deprisa/Hurry, Hurry!

Cervantes Institute collaborates with the Rediscovered Cinema festival by presenting two restored films by internationally recognised filmmaker Carlos Saura. The film Deprisa, deprisa interrogates the theme of juvenile delinquency. Ángela (Berta Socuéllamos) works as a waitress when she meets and later falls in love with Pablo (José Antonio Valdelomar), a reckless criminal. By joining Pablo's gang of car thieves, the couple embarks on a wave of thefts while refusing to fit into society and heading towards oblivion. Filmed after the end of Franco's dictatorship, Deprisa, deprisa precisely depicts the nihilistic attitude of many marginalized youth during Spain's transition to democracy, a time of social upheaval, high unemployment, and inflation. To achieve as realistic a portrayal as possible, Saura chose a series of non-professional actors who, in essence, recreated their own lived experiences on screen. Simple and fast-paced, Deprisa, Deprisa was a major box office success and a vital contribution to the Cine Quinqui film cycle in Spain, which brought a wave of disillusioned young delinquents to the screens of Spanish cinema. Before the screening, the professor of Cinematic Studies at the University of Salford, Andy Willis, will give an introduction to the work of filmmaker Carlos Saura and the impact of this film on Spanish society in the 1980s.