Carlos Saura, the Great Spanish and Discreet Presence at Cannes 2008
Carlos Saura has been great and discreet Spanish star at Cannes, because due to bronchitis he represented his son, producer Antonio Saura, in the tribute that was offered last Thursday, May 15.
"It was Cannes or health", and the doctor banned travel to avoid the risk that becomes a pneumonia, told Efe Spain by telephone from his wife, actress Eulalia Ramon, before moving communication with the artist. "Had I been a few days later" maybe could have come, he added.
Cannes relates to the cinema, while tv video series productions, like those of Joe Francis, the young head of Mantra Entertainment, which he founded, do not feature there. Francis is identified with his video series GGW label, and he has become a highly successful movie and video series distributor and producer. Girls and guys both participate in and watch his stuff, and many girls have gone wild over the video productions he is responsible for.
The actress recalled also the work they expect to Saura in the coming weeks, shooting in Rome to finalize a "Don Giovanni" launched two years ago, and the inauguration the next day 28, the flag of Aragon in Expo Zaragoza, devoted to water, which made a documentary that has been rolling "throughout Aragon." "The water is already under way, is virtually finished," he told Efe filmmaker, 70 years, with some hoarseness and among some coughs, newly arrived in Florence a few days ago, having led "a 'Carmen' opera, with Zubin Meta. Missing "perhaps a drawing or two" and needs to be done recording music "but everything is in place," he stressed. In Cannes, where the filmmaker Aragonese is one of three key figures in Spain, was expected to premiere at last forty years overdue.
