Los Golfos
Carlos Saura, 1959, 84 min
UK premiere of the new restoration of the uncensored version of the film

Introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht

"By all rights, Saura's first film, The Hooligans [AKA The Delinquents], should have been the manifesto and spearhead of a "Spanish New Wave"; the scandal of Viridiana, however, and the film's "preordained" (through government meddling) box office failure quickly put an end to the aspirations of an emerging generation of film school-trained directors. Following the exploits of a teenage gang who plan a burglary of a large factory in order to finance the bullfighting career of a friend, Saura creates a hard-edged look at a rapidly modernizing Spain as seen from the bottom up. Much of the camerawork is hand-held, giving the film a striking, almost visceral kind of immediacy." – Richard Peña

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Never on Sunday is a series of screenings of rare classics, archive masterpieces, obscure delights and forgotten gems carefully curated and introduced by Ehsan Khoshbakht and taking place the last Sunday of each month at Close-Up.