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Suggested by Derek Baldwin
Original at http://www.cinematk.com/pages/noticias/noticias/Archivo/calendario/mayo/180599/unsiglo_180599.htm

El Fotógrafo del Pánico


En Un Siglo de Cine repasamos una de las pel culas más populares del director británico Michael Powell. "PEEPING TOM", "EL FOTÓGRAFO DEL PÁNICO", inauguró el camino hacia el cine pop de la segunda mitad de los años 60 y mostró, una vez más, el ecléctico talento de su creador.

Un chico excesivamente tímido conoce a su vecina de abajo. Ella no se imagina que, en realidad, entre otras muchas cosas, él es su casero. Éste es uno de los momentos clave de la historia de "PEEPING TOM", la película firmada en 1960 por Michael Powell, el británico de ecléctica carrera que compaginó sus costosos films para el magnate de la Rank, con la ayuda de Emeric Pressburger, con la colaboración y el apoyo, en sus últimos años, de Martin Scorsese. "LAS ZAPATILLAS ROJAS" y "UNA CUESTIÓN DE VIDA O MUERTE" son quiz s sus pelìculas más conocidas. Pero "EL FOTÓGRAFO DEL PÁNICO" forma también parte de la historia del cine: por su colosal mezcla de thriller y drama, por anunciar nuevos aires en la estética del cine británico del momento y por perpetrar un estudio psicológico acertado acerca del voyeurismo.


A translation by Carlos Primero :-

The Fotographer of Panic d. Michael Powell, 1960

In "A Century of Cinema" we repeat one of the most popular films of British director Michael Powell. "Peeping Tom" ("Photographer of Fear") opened the way to the pop cinema of the second half of the 60s and showed, once again, the multifaceted talent of its creator.

An excessively shy boy gets to know the girl downstairs. She does not realise that, among many other things, he is in fact her landlord. This is one of the key moments in the story of "Peeping Tom", the film directed in 1960 by Michael Powell, the Englishman with a varied career who put together his sumptuous fims for the Rank empire with the help of Emeric Pressburger and with the collaboration and support, in his final years, of Martin Scorsese. "The Red Shoes" and "A Matter Of Life And Death" are perhaps his best known films. But "Peeping Tom" is also part of the history of cinema: for its tremendous mixture of thriller and drama, for introducing fresh influences into the aesthetics of contemporary British cinema and for delivering a masterful psychological study into voyeurism.


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