Jaime Chávarri
| Jaime Chávarri | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Jaime Chávarri y de la Mora 20 March 1943 Madrid, Spain |
| Occupation | Filmmaker |
| Years active | 1967 present |
Jaime Chávarri (born 20 March 1943) is a Spanish film director and screenwriter.
Chavarri comes from a prominent family. His mother María de la Mora y Maura (1907 – Segovia, Sotosalbos, 1 November 2001) was a maternal granddaughter of Antonio Maura. He had already graduated as a lawyer when he entered the Escuela Oficial the cine EOC in 1968. He abandoned his formal film studies in his second year, moving into film criticism. He wrote for Film Ideal while devoting himself to make two feature-length films in super 8: Run, Blanca Nieves run (1967) and Ginebra en Los Infiernos (1969). He collaborated with Ivan Zuleta in this director's series for Spanish television Ultimo grito (The last cry) and subsequently scripted Un dos tres... al escondite Inglés (Hide and Seek) (1969). Over the next several years he worked on the technical crew of a number of films and collaborated with Spanish cult film director Jesus Franco on the script for Franco's 1970 opus, Vampyros Lesbos. He also contributed one segment to the collective film, Pastel de Sangre / Blood Pie (1971).
Chávarri's first feature-length film as a director was Los Viajes Escolares (School trips) (1974), a complex autobiographical film that focuses on the ambiance of a dysfunctional family. Critics recognized the director's talent but criticized the obscure symbolism of the film. Two years later, Chavarri continued the theme of the dysfunctional family with the documentary El Desencanto (The disenchantment) (1976) which portraits the family of the deceased Francoist poet Leopoldo Panero, capturing the visceral relations forged out of the patriarchal tyranny in the poet's three sons and widow. Chavarri subsequent film was the highly praised A Un Dios Desconocido, To An Unknown God (1977) which tale the story of a solitary aging gay magician who remembers his youthful romance with Federico García Lorca. The film, written with producer Elias Querejeta and with notable work by cinematographer Teodoro Escamilla, was highly praised winning the leading actor and director prizes at the 1977 San Sebastián International Film Festival.
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