El cine que nos lleva. Entrevista con José Luis Sampedro

Abstract

José Luis Sampedro was one of the great Spanish humanists of the late twentieth century and the beginning of the new millennium. An economist, but also a novelist, poet, playwright and essayist, Sampredro was, above all, an intellectual committed to his time. Two of his novels were adapted for the cinema: El rio que nos lleva (Antonio del Real, 1989) and The Etruscan Smile (La sonrisa etrusca, Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, 2018). This interview explores his relationship with cinema, his myths and his preferences. The writer expresses, with his characteristic freedom, his opinions about different films that had left an impression on him throughout his life, about the future of cinema and about the work of some of the filmmakers who most interested him. In short, it is an in-depth conversation on the undeniable influence that this modern artistic manifestation has had on contemporary society and culture.