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La chasse

Original title: La caza
  • 1966
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  • 1h 31m
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7.5/10
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La chasse (1966)
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Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events that happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events that happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. Heat and talking about events that happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.

  • Director
    • Carlos Saura
  • Writers
    • Angelino Fons
    • Carlos Saura
  • Stars
    • Ismael Merlo
    • Alfredo Mayo
    • José María Prada
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  • IMDb RATING
    7.5/10
    2.6K
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    • Director
      • Carlos Saura
    • Writers
      • Angelino Fons
      • Carlos Saura
    • Stars
      • Ismael Merlo
      • Alfredo Mayo
      • José María Prada
    • 14User reviews
    • 16Critic reviews
  • See production info at IMDbPro
  • See production info at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 7 wins & 2 nominations total

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    Ismael Merlo
    Ismael Merlo
    • José
    Alfredo Mayo
    Alfredo Mayo
    • Paco
    José María Prada
    José María Prada
    • Luis
    • (as Jose Maria Prada)
    Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
    Emilio Gutiérrez Caba
    • Enrique
    • (as Emilio G. Caba)
    Fernando Sánchez Polack
    Fernando Sánchez Polack
    • Juan
    • (as Fernando Sanchez Polack)
    Violeta García
    • Carmen
    • (as Violeta Garcia)
    María Sánchez Aroca
    • La Madre de Juan
    • (as Maria Sanchez Aroca)
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      • Director
        • Carlos Saura
      • Writers
        • Angelino Fons
        • Carlos Saura
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      6gavin6942

      Agony

      Three men go hunting rabbits during a hot day. The heat and talking about events that happened in the past make them angry, until they go totally crazy.

      The film was shot in a valley that once witnessed a Civil War battle similar to the one described in the dialogue. The movie has since become a classic, and a landmark in Spanish cinema. While I think it is far fro ma perfect film, it makes a lot of sense that this would be an influential picture. As a society, Spain was probably still overcoming its past in the 1960s. This was one way to confront that.

      I am not familiar with any other film from the director, so far as I know... it might make sense to see this in a wider context.
      7lasttimeisaw

      Carlos Saura's daring tale of how morality can be depleted all in a jiffy

      Carlos Saura's third feature LA CAZA won him a BEST DIRECTOR Silver Berlin Bear that year at the age of 34 (a triumph he would duplicate in 1968 with his next project PEPPERMINT FRAPPE and a final Golden Berlin Bear winning in 1981 for FAST, FAST), which is quite a prescient gesture then, Saura has a comparatively prolific career, even today, this reverend octogenarian is still making his next project. LA CAZA is only my second Saura's entry, after the soul-pulverizing domestic tale RAISE RAVENS (1976, 9/10), this time he was 10 years younger, vigorously sets up a male- predominant set-to among three old chaps in a stark hunting party, an eleventh-hour outburst bookends a weathered generation's disaffection and angst, it is an unpolished bravura to pull the trigger in such a reckless manner, but no one would deny the sleight of hand of cinematography (the late DP Luis Cuadrado) and how Saura patiently paves the way for its drama layers and how he would detonate the time-bomb with eloquent narrative arc.

      The film devices a plain story about 3 old friends (a fourth partaker is one friend's young brother-in-law) reunite for a rabbit-hunting expedition in the rural hillside, soon their friendship would be tested under the entanglement of money problem, peer contempt and chronic discontent, starts with a premonition of one of them cannot find a first aid kit for his wounded finger.

      Before the open-space shooting, they converse from hunting rabbits to man-hunting, from natural law's priority to piranhas' metaphor for hoi polloi, one who is familiar with that particular period of Spanish history may find access to many allusions here. The actual shooting is all fly- on-the-wall, with a dozen of poor critters being mercilessly put under the camera then waits for a headshot (in the latter half, including a devoted ferret), animal activists will go berserk (not to mention skinning the carcass), the bestiality simmering underneath all the veneer and guises is appalling and guns does facilitate the trigger-happy group.

      Voice-over and close-ups are two frequent instruments punctiliously deployed here, the alternatively intensive and exotic score is a obliging company with the film's well-controlled rhythm, the cast is fittingly in working order, and Gutierrez Caba's fresh handsomeness is the vestigial innocence left among adulthood, at least we can still have faith until it gets tainted by the consumption of the malignancy, envy, opportunism and discrimination, I hope Saura agrees with me this time.
      10COB-3

      A tragedy of human emotions pushed over the edge

      My first encounter with this bleak, stunning film was in its homeland, some 50 miles or so from the area. I felt the heat, the anger and how nature really does control us. What it shows keenly , particularly in the exquisite use of black and white is how close we can all be at any time to savagery. The thin veneer of humanity can so easily be removed. It left me sadly aware that we are all capable of such tragedy. Watch it for a feral insight into our dark souls. Superb.
      7Billiam-4

      Intense psychological drama

      Intense psychological drama, obviously intended as a political allegory, relentlessly exposes its protagonists' toxic masculinity, suitably staged in stark black-and-white and a overheated barren landscape, entrenched in a whirlpool of absurd moments and violence (the hunting scenes are quite hard to take).
      8ma-cortes

      A rabbit hunting with four characters facing each other and terminating into a burst of violence

      Interesting and thought-provoking look about a rabbit hunting excursion through a hot , long day . Well directed film by Carlos Saura who tried to create a sort of Spanish Neo-Realism by tackling a hunt starred by four former friends (Alfredo Mayo , Jose Maria Prada , Luis Merlo and Emilio Gutierrez Caba) that becomes a violent confrontation . Both of them find their friendships extended to the breaking point in which emerges violence and vengeance , turning the characters over the edge of breakdown .

      This sour picture is well set in Spain of the 60s , when four friends set out a planned hunting and as minor events and disputes led toward more frequent and angrier facing off . This film was notorious in the years of the Franco dictatorship including provoking and polemic issues and played by known and prestigious actors . His style is pretty much sour , dry and realistic as well in the atmosphere as in the fresh dialog . ¨La Caza¨ is one of Saura's undisputed masterpieces and fundamental in his filmography where shows the miseries of some amoral characters and shot at the height of his creativity, in a period cultural difficult, where the enormous censorship of the political regime exacerbated the ingenuity and imagination of the scriptwriters . Splendid photography with juicy atmosphere by Luis Cuadrado who along with Teo Escamilla are considered to be two of the best Spanish cameramen , both of whom worked for Saura . Being splendidly filmed on location in Aranjuez, Madrid, Esquivias, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha and Seseña, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain . Atmospheric musical score by Luis De Pablo who composes a thrilling soundtrack plenty of drums and piano sounds . The picture deservedly won Silver Bear in the Berlin Festival for ¨ La Caza or The Chase¨ (1966) his most successful film .

      The motion picture perfectly produced by magnificent producer Elias Querejeta was stunningly directed by Carlos Saura , a good Spanish movies director. He began working in cinema in 1959 when he filmed ¨Los Golfos ¨(1962) dealing with juvenile delinquency from a sociological point of view . Saura is a well recognized filmmaker both nationally and internationally, and in proof of it he won many prizes among which there are the following ones: Silver Bear in Festival of Berlin for Peppermint Frappé (1967). Special Jury Awards in Cannes for La Prima Angélica (1974), in 1973, and for Cría Cuervos (1976), in 1975. Also, the film Mamá Cumple Cien Años (1979) got an Oscar nomination in 1979 as the best foreign film, and it also won the Special Jury Award at the San Sebastian Festival. He subsequently made ¨Deprisa , Deprisa¨ based on facts about juvenile delinquency in Spain since the 80s , as he tried to take a position in favour of outcast people and he got to make a both lyric and documentary-style cinema . In 1990, he won two Goya , The Spanish Oscar , as best adapted screenplay writer and best director . Saura became an expert on Iberian musical adaptations as ¨Carmen , Amor Brujo , Bodas De Sangre , Sevillanas ,Iberia , Salome, Fado, Flamenco ¨ and even recently Opera as ¨Io , Don Giovanni¨

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      • Trivia
        The initial title, "La caza del conejo" ("the rabbit hunt") was changed by the Francoist censors, as "conejo" in Spanish is also a slang term for the woman's sexual organs.
      • Connections
        Featured in Huellas de un espíritu (1998)
      • Soundtracks
        Tu loca juventud
        Written by Tomás de la Huerta (as Huerta) and José Luis Navarro (as Navarro)

        Performed by Federico Cabo

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      • Release date
        • April 3, 1974 (France)
      • Country of origin
        • Spain
      • Official site
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      • Language
        • Spanish
      • Also known as
        • The Hunt
      • Filming locations
        • Esquivias, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain(Town)
      • Production company
        • Elías Querejeta Producciones Cinematográficas
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        • $124
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      • Runtime
        1 hour 31 minutes
      • Color
        • Black and White
      • Sound mix
        • Mono
      • Aspect ratio
        • 1.66 : 1

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