UK Premiere: Deprisa, Deprisa (Hurry, Hurrry!)

Like Carlos Saura’s 1959 debut feature Los golfos (The Delinquents, also showing at this year’s Cinema Rediscovered), Deprisa, deprisa interrogates the theme of juvenile delinquency. Here, Angela (Berta Socuéllamos) is working as a waitress when she meets and subsequently falls in love with Pablo (José Antonio Valdelomar), a reckless criminal delinquent. Joining Pablo’s gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a robbery spree as they refuse to fit into society and hurtle toward oblivion.

Made following the end of the Franco dictatorship, Carlos Saura’s Deprisa, deprisa precisely portrays the nihilistic attitude of many marginalised young people during Spain’s transition to democracy, a time of social unrest, high unemployment and inflation. To achieve as realistic portrayal as possible, Saura cast a series of non-professional performers who were, in essence, recreating their own lived experiences on screen. Straightforward and fast-paced, Deprisa, Deprisa was a significant box-office success and vital contribution to Spain’s Cine Quinqui cycle of films that brought a stream of disillusioned juvenile delinquents to Spanish cinema screens.

A new 4K restoration by production company Video Mercury Films c/o Janus Films selected by Andy Willis, co-curator of ¡Viva! Spanish and Latin American Festival.

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