2024-01-09 23:14:19
Although his health was not with him, Ventura Pons kept thinking about artistic projects. The author Lluís Anton Baulenas, of whom he adapted two titles to film, was working with him on a different adaptation. “Ventura Pons wanted to take my work to the theater ‘Your Anita (Good works)’, which he himself had already turned into a film years ago,” explained the playwright. “We had worked on the text that had something from the script of the film ‘Anita I didn’t miss the train’. But I doubt that after her death it will be a viable project.”
The Catalan filmmaker died on Monday at the age of 78, leaving behind a prolific work. The funeral in memory of the directorproducer and screenwriter emblem of Catalan cinema from the 80s and 90s will be celebrated this Wednesday at 12:00 p.m. at the Les Corts funeral home from Barcelona.
In Baulenas, winner of the first Santa Eulàlia Award 2023 With a novel set in the Barcelona of the real estate boom of 2003, he would have liked to work with Pons again. The director also adapted his other novels: ‘Idiot love’ y ‘Service Area’.
“His head worked very well and he really wanted to carry this work forward,” he says. He admits that she has gotten a lot out of ‘La vostra Anita (Bones obres)’. It was born as a novel, but he has seen it turned into a film starring Rosa Maria Sardà and José Coronado, and then he has ended up turning it into a theatrical monologue. “Pons was thinking about who could do it. If someone close to the director knew about the project and was interested in it, it would be fantastic to carry it out. But I doubt it could be done because it involved something very personal.”
From cinema to theater
Baulenas sent him his theatrical text. “Pons’ intention was to make an adaptation of the film for the theater. I had absolute confidence in him, but I don’t think he has a successor interested in developing this project. Pons was used to doing everything himself to control everything,” recalls Baulenas. The author, who usually publishes a new work every two or three years, has female protagonists in his works, independent women like Anita, that movie blockbuster that Pons dreamed of taking to the theater.
In addition to the aforementioned works of Baulenas, he also adapted novels by Quim Monzó (‘The why of everything’), Jordi Puntí (‘Animals wounded’) and Ferran Torrent (‘Abyssal life’) and texts by playwrights such as Josep Maria Benet i Jornet (‘Actrius’), Jordi Belbel (‘Carícies’) and Lluïsa Cunillé (‘Barcelona, a map’).
The Filmoteca de Catalunya has announced a posthumous tribute to the director of ‘Ocaña, sonido intermittent’, and the Catalan Cinema Academy, which awarded him the Gaudí d’Honor in 2015, has said that His figure will be remembered at the next edition of the Gaudí Awards gala.
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