“It’s a female Buster Keaton” he said at the time Pedro Almodóvar on it. “One of the reasons for making movies is to meet with people like her,” assured Fernando Trueba, the director who got him his first and only Goya by the film Belle Epoque . Yesterday, in Almería, he died Chus Lampreave, the youngest of all Almodóvar Almodóvar girls.
The actress, born in 1930, worked in 10 films of filmmaker manchego. Their first collaboration was in Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom, in 1980. But it was not easy to Almodóvar convince her to join his troupe, which later became one of the members more faithful and representative. It is that Lampreave, one of the leading secondary interpreters of Spanish cinema of the past three decades, always said he had come to acting by chance, with no intention of becoming the icon in the mother of all, the aunt something lost and terribly funny that so often was.
in the early fifties, when he was twenty, he had joined the Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando, and upon graduation worked as an illustrator in publishing Aguilar. Later he began to study conducting at the Institute for Research and cinematic experiences, and there met director Jaime de Armiñán, who offered him his first role as an actress in one of the first television programs of TVE, at the dawn of the Spanish public television when his studies were a few blocks from stadium Santiago Bernabeu, Real Madrid.
on the big screen debut in 1958 with a role in the pisito , Marco Ferrari, with which he repeated two years later in the stroller. Of course the more than seventy films in which he participated – The Executioner , My dear Miss , The Love of Captain Brando the war dad and the national shotgun , among others, the most recognized in the country and the world stage come thanks to its partnership with Almodóvar.
Thanks to his work in dark Habits , Labyrinth of passion , What have I done to deserve this? , women on the edge of a nervous Breakdown , Matador , The flower of my secret , Talk to her , Back and broken embraces , their latest collaboration, Lampreave was capocómica, voice of Spain posfranquista and irreverent character who can say the most surreal as one who recites the list of errands texts.
His tempo for tragicomedy and melodrama almodovariano turned her unforgettable, although complying with the golden rule of the side, only has a few minutes on screen. There was, as the manager of the building where he lived the character of Carmen Maura in Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown , unable to lie, she said, to be a witness of Jehovah and help the protagonist of sheer bad vibes, such as diabetic mother and drinker What I done to deserve this? and the unforgettable mother of The Flower of My Secret.
“So young and you’re like a cow without Cowbell! Perdida, aimless, directionless, like me. I too am like a cow without cowbell, but at my age is normal. For so i want to live here in the village. When women leave us husband because he has died or gone to another, which in this case is the same, we must go back to where we were born. Visit the shrine of the saint, take the cool with neighboring pray novenas with them, if you’re not a believer. Because if we do not, we lose around like a cow without cowbell “, reciting the wonderful Lampreave with your little voice and those glasses ass bottle in that wonderful film Almodovar who played the mother of people’s character Marisa Paredes. Although in reality, it was for the director’s portrait of his own mother, someone who could embody Chus only.
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