Ocaña: An Intermittent Portrait

1978
7.1| 1h25m| NA| en| More Info
Released: 01 June 1978 Released
Producted By: Prozesa
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The confession, sincere and shamelessly, of the painter's life Ocaña and the reconstruction of his world, his provocations and his experiences. Ocaña, with joy and from his creative marginalization challenges: cross-dressing as a provocation, religion and fetishism, repression of machismo, lawlessness, homosexuality ... Marginal life that was hidden under the Franco dictatorship is openly displayed against the backdrop of a unique artist. A legendary and cult film.

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Documentary

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Ventura Pons

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Catangro After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.
filippaberry84 I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.
Derrick Gibbons An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.
Brenda The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
jiminasabadu This is a highly recommendable documentary about Ocaña, a sevillan painter living in Barcelona. This may not be interesting by itself (how many painters are in the world?) but the ferocity, sincerity, bright and sensibility of Ocaña talking either about his childhood, his art or life itself makes this movie a shocking exposure of a bizarre, colonist Barcelona rigth after Franco's death. It's an explosion of both life and light, a celebration of joy and, somehow, an spiritual striptease of a soul willing to survive a world of mediocrity, all in a voyeur style, avoiding prejudices and letting the character speak by himself. This was the very first movie by Ventura Pons, who was 21 at the time. That makes you thing about his huge talent! I recommend it to everyone!
MRBICKLE This is not a movie in the conventional meaning of the word; like the title says ("Ocana, retrato intermitente" - "Ocaña, intermittent portrait") this is a portrait, but not only of the lead, Ocaña, homosexual painter from Andalucia but a time and a city (Barcelona, late 70's). Ventura Pons leaves complete freedom to Ocana to express himself, explain his hard life, his opinions of the world, etc. and mixing this with scenes of his life in the streets (walking half naked in a well-known street of Barcelona called La Rambla, singing a song in a bar full of people or organizing some kind of drag queen procession).Of course, the film is interesting because Ocana himself is interesting, who explains to the camera the repression he suffered in his village for being gay, his first sexual experiences and the special relationship with a man who died suddenly, clearly the greatest love of his life. Behind Ocana's words and his special behavior lies a sensible an intelligent man, a wonderful man.A highly recommendable documentary about a man, a time and the changes that took place in Spain after Franco's death.Note: Ocana died tragically a few years later that this film was made when in a party his disguise suddenly burnt. A tragic end to a great life.