A selection of press and critical writings about my film work
Cahiers du Cinema
«Mauas finds the balance between exhaustive research and intimate personal reflection»
Deutschland Radio
«This film is an event, because it reveals how the mysterious death of a German thinker converts a little village of the Catalan Pyrenees to a crossroad of European history»
La Vanguardia
«The result is a “film noir” that moves between a classic documentary and the video art. In “Who killed Walter Benjamin…” not only is reconstructed the death of the writer but also is recreated “the scene of the crime”»
Die Tageszeitung
«With persistence Mauas seizes new relevant details from witnesses of that time which until now has been ignored by the international Benjamin research»
Fotogramas
«Mauas traces a journey that goes from the legend to the social phenomenon, proposing a reflection on art as a business, with the schemes between innocent buyers and those who take over the art market, but he also includes a look into the identity of the artist and the authorship of his canvases»
El Mundo
«Is it real or false? Is it a farce? Is it a fiction? Do these characters really exist? What are we talking about? A painting? The art market? Goya? Or about Spain?, asks David. And indeed he talks about all this and much more»
El Funàmbul
«...Mauas's documentaries are also, or perhaps above all, a reflection on the medium itself. About the documentary as a gender and the cinema, in general. About illusion and truth.»
Washington Jewish Film Festival
«Perhaps the first ever film noir intellectual historical film, Mauas´documentary is at once beguiling and enlightening»
El Heraldo de Aragón
«The author draws a suggestive and very personal vision of the great Goya ( …) The images come and go to the beat of a rhythm labyrinthine which reminds ‘The Aspern Papers’ or the investigations of Sherlock Holmes»
Público
«Just as Hitchcock’s MacGuffin, the theory of the signatures works as a plot element that allows to speak about the legends that surround Goya»