Carol Reed

A certain lack of consideration continues to weigh on Carol Reed on the part of film critics who have not been able to value it in its proper measure beyond the praise that "The Third Man", her most popular and transcendent work, has always aroused. However, Reed is the author of several masterpieces such as the influential "The Long Night" and "The Fallen Idol," and responsible for underappreciated films such as "The Key" and "Banished to the Islands." Luis García Gil delves into the chiaroscuro of a brilliant work that knew how to navigate several genres, from comedy to drama, from historical film to musical, as demonstrated in the Oscar-winning "Oliver!" In Carol Reed, several worlds come together throughout four decades of cinematographic art in which he established relationships as fruitful as the one he united with the writer Graham Greene. Admired by filmmakers such as Roman Polanski, Reed's cinema is still fully relevant as confirmed by this approach to his work in which the important legacy of the British filmmaker is vindicated.