Quinqui (film genre)

Quinqui[lower-alpha 1] (or cine quinqui, meaning "delinquency cinema") is a Spanish film genre that was most popular at the end of the 1970s and in the 1980s.[1] The films were centered around underclass delinquents, drugs, and love, and usually starred non-professional actors picked off the street.[1] Notable directors of this genre were José Antonio de la Loma, Eloy de la Iglesia and Carlos Saura.[2]

Quinqui films focused on marginalized working-class adolescents in the outskirts of Spanish cities involved in small-scale robbery and street crime.[3] They showed raw violence, explicit sex, police brutality, and commonly depicted heroin use.[3]

The genre draws inspiration from Italian neorealism and the French New Wave.[3]

Several of the stars of quinqui cinema would go on to die prematurely,[1] most due to heroin use but some of AIDS.

Notable films

See also

Notes
  1. Alternatively written as kinki.

References
  1. 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.
  2. Yuste, Javier. "De 'El Torete' a 'El Cristo', la resurrección del cine quinqui | El Cultural". El Cultural (in Spanish). Retrieved 3 February 2020.
  3. Moral, Pedro (4 January 2019). "Heroína y crónica negra: guía básica del cine quinqui". Cinemanía (in Spanish). 20 minutos. Retrieved 3 February 2020.
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