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- ↑ "Pere Portabella home page". Portabella. Archived from the original on May 2, 2008. Retrieved 2009-04-22.
- ↑ Zecchi, Barbara (2019). "Intervening in the Present: Catalan Cinema's Radical Years (1968–1978)". Film Quarterly. 72 (3): 69–77. doi:10.1525/fq.2019.72.3.69. S2CID 194213310 . Retrieved 5 August 2020.
