Cita de la Semana
«Mi adicción a la droga es poca cosa comparada con mi adicción al cine»
Eloy Germán de la Iglesia Diéguez (Zarauz, Guipúzcoa, 1 de enero de 1944 – Madrid, 23 de marzo de 2006), conocido artísticamente como Eloy de la Iglesia, fue un director de cine y guionista español.
Su trayectoria como director de películas, de estilo naturalista y directo, comenzó a finales de los años 60 prolongándose hasta 2003.
Sus obras más conocidas, como «El Pico» (1983), «Navajeros» (1980) o «La estanquera de Vallecas» (1987), retratan la marginalidad y el mundo de las drogas que se vivía en las ciudades españolas en los años 70 y 80.
También abordó temáticas como la homosexualidad («Los placeres ocultos» o «El diputado»), insanas relaciones familiares («Algo amargo en la boca» o «La otra alcoba»), ficción científica («Una gota de sangre para morir amando») y realizó adaptaciones literarias («Otra vuelta de tuerca», «Calígula» o «Los novios búlgaros»).
«My adiction to drugs is not much compared to my adiction to the cinema»
Eloy de la Iglesia (January 1, 1944 – March 23, 2006) was a Spanish screenwriter and film director.
De la Iglesia was an outspoken gay socialist filmmaker who is relatively unknown outside Spain despite a prolific and successful career in his native country.
He is best remembered for having portrayed urban marginality and the world of drugs and juvenile delinquency in the early 1980s.
Part of his work is closely related to the phenomenon popularly known in Spain as «Quinqui films», to which he contributed with several works. His film are an example of commitment to the immediate reality. They were made with honesty and great risk, against the conformist outlook of most movies of its time.
Beyond their debatable aesthetic merits, his film served a document of the Spanish marginality of the late seventies and early eighties, and they have the stamp of his strong personality. Many of this films also deal with the theme of homosexuality.
His best known works, such as «The Needle» (1983), «Knifers» (1980) and «The Tobacconist from Vallecas» (1987), portray the marginality and the world of drugs that lived in Spanish cities over the years 70 and 80.
He also tackled topics such as homosexuality («Hidden Pleasures» or «Confessions of a Congressman»), insane family relationships («Something Bitter Tasting» or «The Other Bedroom»), science fiction («Murder in a Blue World») and made literary adaptations («The Turn of the Screw», «Calígula» or «Bulgarian lovers»).
