Notable filmmakers and shoots in the region
Among the stars who have passed through the Costa Daurada, Daniel Craig aka James Bond made a notable appearance in the city of Tarragona in 2020. While filming for an advertising campaign for a well-known Dutch beer brand, the star of Die Can Wait
walked through a good part of the city, before climbing the foothills of Tamarit Castle, one of the jewels of the coast. It deserved a little refreshment.Ninety years ago, it was the great Spanish filmmaker Luis Buñuel who put his camera in the streets of the city. He shot the Golden Age (1930). A film adapted from a short story by the Marquis de Sade, a transposition that Buñuel made with his great friend Salvador Dalí. Later, André Malraux came to Tarragona to make L'Espoir
(1940), a feature film based on the experiences of its director, who had joined the Republican camp in 1936. After the conflict, the region's productions were mostly national. Popular Spanish hits such as La gran familia by Fernando Palacios (1962) were filmed here, and the Barcelona filmmaker Bigas Luna made some of his best-known films on the Costa Daurada. This is the case with La teta y la luna (1994) and Yo soy la Juani (2006), in which the Teatre Bartrina in Reus is seen. Since the 2000s, other filmmakers have taken over. For example, in 2010 Guillem Morales filmed Julia's Eyes, a thriller produced by Guillermo Del Toro, and the region is also one of the filming locations for the mini-series Si no t'hagués conegut (If I hadn't met you) (2018), a breathtaking story in ten episodes mixing police investigation and multiverse. On the international side, big names like Vincent Cassel - in The Monk in 2011 - or Matthew McConaughey - in Sahara in 2005 - have stopped in the region. The opportunity to discover the Ebro Delta from another angle in Sahara, or to visit the monastery of Santes Creus alongside a Vincent Cassel in great shape. For those who love the genre, the Hong Kong kung-fu film Thirst for Justice (1982) with Jackie Chan, as well as the crunchy parody Spanish Movie (2009) were also filmed in Tarragona.Being a movie lover on the Costa Daurada
There is no shortage of cinemas on the coast as long as you speak the language of Cervantes. In Cambrils, the Rambla de l'Art offers art house productions as well as cultural finds, both documentaries and fiction. But you can also discover the great international films in the few complexes of Calafell, Reus or Amposta. Finally, Tarragona has been hosting the REC Film Festival for more than twenty years, and don't hesitate to make a detour to the north, where the Sitges International Film Festival, one of the major events in Spanish cinema, welcomes you just a few kilometers from Calafell.
