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Article: Death of a cyclist.(A SECOND LOOK)(Critical essay)
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- June 22, 2009
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Criterion's release of Juan Antonio Bardem's Death of a Cyclist continues the label s ongoing, somewhat furtive project of reviving filmmakers as much as films. If Italian filmmakers, who profoundly affected Bardem and his generation, staked their claim at the most opportune historical moment, during Mussolini's fall, Bardem's fortunes in Francoist Spain couldn't have been worse. By the early 1950s, Franco's hegemony over the entirety of Spanish life was complete and brutally enforced; the nearly four-decade span of his dictatorship is only one measure of how sturdy and entrenched Franco's brand of totalist fascism really was, and, even five years after his death, a ...
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