Resumen

MARTINEZ EXPOSITO, Alfredo. Julio Medem and the Poetics of Commitment. Alpha [online]. 2004, n.20, pp. 121-134. ISSN 0718-2201.  doi: 10.4067/S0718-22012004000200008.

Basque film director Julio Medem combines in his films the highbrow aesthetics most commonly associated with the cinéma d’auteur and a commmitment to the uneasy expression of a constantly reinterpreted historical subjectivity. Through an analysis of thematic and ideological motives in Los amantes del Círculo Polar (Lovers of the Artic Circle, 1998), using a combination of aesthetic and sociological viewpoints, it is posited that Medem’s oeuvre, rather than conforming to the traditional separation of high and low art, suggests a poetics of commitment which is predicated precisely on the overcoming of that duality.

Palabras clave : commitment; aestheticism; authorship in film; Basque film; ideology.