Pablo and Ángela live - a visual bifurcation that illustrates, not only their socioeconomic marginality, but also exposes their irreparable moral fissure. The film captures the rootlessness of a morally stunted, lost generation that has come of age at a time of profound political and cultural transformation. The reckless, thrill-seeking, young anti-heroes of Carlos Saura's Deprisa, deprisa also indirectly bear the scars of a life lived in the periphery - paradoxically insulated from the tyranny of institutional rule, but also divorced from the inured resilience engendered by its imposed sense of order. Carlos Saura described Deprisa, deprisa as a "romantic" film, in the historical sense of the word, as it expresses the outlook of the twentieth century rebel who stood outside society and who rejected social norms. The film's four young protagonists, rebelling against the constraints of social organization, are in fact, products of the very system that they reject and that has rejected them. Reception Deprisa, deprisa was a critical and financial success, winning the Golden Bear at the 31st Berlin International Film Festival in 1981. The film opened to excellent reviews in Madrid and was producer Elías Querejeta’s largest grossing production of the fifteen years of his collaboration with director Carlos Saura. The film was also ensnared in controversy. In France and West Germany there was talk of its being banned due to the view that the film glorified violence and drug culture. Eventually, however, it was released with restrictive classifications in both countries. In Spain, the conservative newspaper ABC criticized the film’s social realism and accused Saura of paying his cast in hard drugs. Saura denied the accusation, saying that his cast of real life delinquents, including Jesús Arias who was on day release from prison, had a much better idea than he of where to get drugs. Notes References D'Lugo, Marvin, The Films of Carlos Saura, Princeton University Press, 1991, Stone, Robe, Spanish Cinema, Pearson Education, 2002, Strictly Film School External links Strictly Film School 1981 films 1981 drama films Spanish drama films 1980s Spanish-language films Madrid in fiction Films directed by Carlos Saura Golden Bear winners Films shot in Almería