Resumen de El naúfrago del Paradise Café: una introducción a Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Ghatak was undoubtedly one of the legends of Indian cinema whose theories and occasional criticism of extraordinary insight plus profound influence on that innovative generation characterised the new Indian cinema of the 1970s. The thirtieth anniversary of his death is the perfect time to consider his work and way of thinking. Author of a handful of masterpieces, starting with Meghe Dhaka Tara (The Cloud-Capped Star - 1960), Ghatak proves to have inherited the stage tradition of Brecht and Stanislavsky just like Eisenstein's films and those of the great, contemporarysoviet masters of Avant-Garde. Furthermore, he inherited the filmmaking tradition of others like Buñuel, with whom he shared a decisive revaluation of numerous elements of popular tradition. Both of them passed through a clear reinvention of melodrama and the thorough exploration of the relationship between cinema’s sound and imagery.
