Interior Berlanga. Cine

Exhibition at CaixaForum Madrid on Luis García-Berlanga (1921-2010) bringing together material from his private archive, recently catalogued and digitised, with set designs of some of the spaces from his life and a participatory area on film technique.

The exhibition offers a personal view of Luis García-Berlanga based on his private archive, catalogued and digitised, and largely visible for the first time to the public. The route surveys his life, his work and his international reach as a key figure of 20th-century European cinema. It also looks at his historical context, his conflicts with censorship and the personal themes running through his filmography, such as fear of death, of the future and of women.

The set design recreates spaces linked to his life and his cinema: an office, a film set, a room from the 1950s and a large Valencian falla in which films and characters from his universe are symbolically burned. Everything is staged with a cinematic atmosphere that places the visitor inside that world, designed both for film enthusiasts and for anyone who wants to get to know the author beyond his titles.

A participatory experimentation space, guided by the filmmaker's son, José Luis García Berlanga, introduces the travelling shot and the sequence shot, two central techniques in his father's work. Visitors can build their own travelling shot and interact directly with the camera.