Isabel Coixet: "I hate for women to copy male rituals: bachelorette parties, weddings, little white dresses ..."

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Isabel Coixet (Barcelona, ​​1960) has in

not so much her best film, which perhaps also, as

The story of two characters lost in that strange paradise of karaokes and rooftops that is the city of Alicante skyscrapers helps the director to make a leisurely, almost sleepwalking, poem on the very edge of almost everything: of life, of the sea, of cement, of love, of death, of thriller ... The actors Timothy Spall and Sarita Choudhury (retired banker and vaginal acrobat respectively) find themselves in the labyrinth of a megapolis in which not everything is drunkenness and forgetfulness.

What follows is the timely description of a

dystopia

exhausted and timeless as ravishing as it is profoundly beautiful.

"Very twilight," she says.

After receiving the

in the heat of pandemic 1, now it is his turn to inaugurate the Seminci in the heat of pandemic 2 today.

The movie, the weather itself ... Everything seems too sad.

There must be some good news somewhere.

Well, I'm not going to be the one to give it.

They have closed the Texas cinema in Barcelona and the world is falling apart.

I spent my childhood in it [his grandmother was the box office clerk at the Bailén street cinema].

They say they are going to turn it into a supermarket.

A drama.

How does someone fall in love with a place like Benidorm? I have gradually grown fond of the place.

I met him when he was trying to do a report on the deterioration of the coast.

It is a privileged place with two bays, a microclimate ... That made me familiar with the city until one day I discovered a woman who practiced vaginal acrobatics in the English quarter.

Seeing how she and her daughter went together with the briefcase from club to club was fascinating.

The vocation fell in love with the paradox of a city that is capable of the worst and the most corrupt, and the most poetic at the same time.

And in between Sylvia Plath.

I remember when I read your newspapers and came face to face with Benidorm, I thought it was a typo.

But no ... And, of course, for me Plath is my adolescence;

is to discover the

at the age of 16

With her there is always the hope of something else and all her moments of happiness were in Benidorm, but Benidorm is also and more obviously the hen parties, the British drunkenness, the crowded beach ... Yes, there is a part that is a horrible carpe diem.

It is like a Blackpool but with sun;

Like the vomit alleys of Manchester

And the free buffet ... bad.

.

But not everything is like that, of course.

There are more ways to be Benidorm.

There is the admirable and adorable Benidorm del Imserso with two choirs, one on each side of the beach and the Benidorm of those who live there, oblivious to everything. The film begins with a group of women dancing with hats that, excuse me, sport cocks.

What is this symbol of? Of nothing good.

I hate for women to reproduce male rituals.

I can not stand it.

I think the problem is marriage and this ridiculous story of the little white dress and the bridesmaids.

Not to mention that terrible wedding list: In one scene, there is a kiss through a glass that seems more like a perfect summary of the pandemic ... It is not intended.

Then he surprised us in montage.

I want to think that in the same way that in the film the drives resist barriers, crystals and masks, so it will happen to us when this is over.

You can love without hugs and without touching.

I stay with that.

The film claims a calm, leisurely time, in a hyperbolic time of constant tension.

Is there political intention in that reading? It is more of a biographical moment.

It has more to do with me and with what I feel now than with what happens in society.

I feel the need to teach women my age who have not put anything weird on their faces.

We live in a time when maturity or old age seem forbidden.

All stars Anette Bening.

Well no, there is a glow that does not end.

People, even though they get old, still are, they keep waking up in the morning and wondering who they are, they keep doubting and they keep making wrong decisions.

I think of The Library, which also gave voice to a moment in her life and I think of what the protagonist represented as a symbol of resistance compared to what others said about her.

She acknowledged that she saw herself as a victim of the independent harassment she suffered in her native Catalonia.

Has all that already happened?

Now what happens that I no longer get angry.

Insults have become a part of everyday life in a way that I don't want to pay attention to.

Yes, it is a matter that is important, but I do not want ... Now I care about other matters such as the beauty of rusty things.

A special look can transform the most terrible place in the world ...

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