Quinqui (film genre)
Cine quinqui or cine kinki (meaning "delinquency cinema") is a Spanish exploitation[1] film genre that was most popular at the end of the 1970s and in the 1980s.[2]
Features
The films were centered around underclass delinquents, drugs, and love, and usually starred non-professional actors picked off the street.[2] The most representative directors of the genre are José Antonio de la Loma and Eloy de la Iglesia, even if other directors such as Carlos Saura, Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón and Vicente Aranda also reproduced the quinqui social imaginaries in some of their films.[3]
Quinqui films focused on
The genre draws inspiration from
Notable films
- Perros callejeros[4](1977)
- Navajeros[2] (1980)
- Deprisa, deprisa[2] (1981)
- Colegas[2] (1982)
- El pico[2] (1983)
- What Have I Done to Deserve This?[4] (1984)
- Yo, el Vaquilla (1985)[7]
- La estanquera de Vallecas (1987)[7]
- El Lute: camina o revienta (1987)[7]
Legacy
After the demise of the quinqui trend, some directors have looked back to the quinqui era themes in films such as Makinavaja, el último choriso (1992), Semos peligrosos (uséase Makinavaja 2) (1993), Stories from the Kronen (1995), What You Never Knew (2000), 7 Virgins (2005), My Quick Way Out (2006), El mundo es nuestro (2012), Criando Ratas (2016), Outlaws (2021),[7] or My Loneliness Has Wings (2023).[8]
References
- ISSN 2014-668X.
- ^ a b c d e f g Alonso, Guillermo (11 February 2019). "Historia negra del cine quinqui: la reivindicación de un género que no dejó supervivientes". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- hdl:10016/28606.
- ^ a b c d e Moral, Pedro (4 January 2019). "Heroína y crónica negra: guía básica del cine quinqui". Cinemanía (in European Spanish). 20 minutos. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
- ^ Belategui, Oskar (18 April 2018). "Los héroes caídos del cine quinqui". El Correo.
- ^ Casas, Quim (12 February 2021). "Cinco actores del cine quinqui: de la delincuencia a la gran pantalla". El Periódico de Catalunya.
- ^ a b c d Rosado, Ricardo (8 October 2021). "Las mejores películas del cine quinqui". Fotogramas.
- ^ Escobar Rivas, Ana (22 August 2023). "Mario Casas y Óscar Casas prenden las redes a golpe de cadera y bachata: "Tenemos una propuesta indecente"". Los 40.