Christina Rosenvinge (Madrid, 1964) is
Karen Blixen
, who in turn is
Isak Dinesen
.
Christina Rosenvinge is a songwriter, singer-songwriter, poet and, suddenly and again, also an actress.
Karen
, by María Pérez Sanz, is the film recently presented at the European Film Festival in which all of the above with each of its happy contradictions becomes possible.
Rosenvinge, of Danish descent as the Out of Africa writer, returns to acting after so many years (has
and to go back to My Brother's Gun, 1997) to complete a sad and deeply beautiful journey to that unique and happy moment in which failure makes sense.
The debt to the Extremadura director's address is not only good news, it is
a beautiful beginning and a dazzling reunion.
All good.
Is being the daughter of Danes and giving life to Karen Blixen coincidence or destiny?
Blixen's books were in Danish at my house, but I read it first in Spanish and then in English.
Over time I discovered that there was some family connection to her.
My grandfather knew Blixen's brother.
But that doesn't explain how it gets on paper ...
Actually, it was a bold idea from Maria, the director.
He called me to do the music for the movie.
It had a perfect ending theme inspired by
the emigrant tradition of my family.
Then a few days later he proposed me to be the protagonist.
I thought about it, decided not to, and when I was about to convey my refusal, I changed my mind at the right moment to pronounce the phrase.
Not long ago he published a book with the lyrics of his songs and now this.
Does it mean the beginning or the end of something in your career?
Everything is part of the same.
When you are an interpreter you are already an author and an actor.
Acting on stage is no more difficult than acting on film.
The discipline is the same: you have to
be able to reproduce those emotions that you have worked alone in an adverse and unnatural situation in front of the public.
You have to be able to sing or perform as if for the first time.
The film is the story of a failure, of how badly Karen Blixen did in Africa ... How do you relate to failure?
I think we can all connect with that.
Hand in hand with failure one reaches his destination.
From the accident comes the success.
There is a very graphic parable in Blixen's work.
A character draws his movements throughout the day and it would seem that his comings and goings do not make any sense.
And yet, on the paper appears the image of a stork, which symbolizes destiny.
The idea is that her failure in Africa pushed her to fulfill her destiny in writing, albeit belatedly ...
That is nothing strange in the case of women.
His was not exactly a late calling.
She spent her entire life creating stories that fascinated those who listened.
When he returned to Denmark and after having considered doing things as different as cooking, he sat down and began to write his stories.
After the first success, comes
Memories of Africa.
Life gave him the best story.
Perhaps your first intention in writing was to process the trauma of having lost paradise.
By the way, a wonderful coincidence is that she went to write to the northern tip of Denmark which is precisely where I spend the summer and wrote her song.
That is where destiny also enters
[Serie].
Blixen signed her first book with a man's name.
I say this because of what I said about late vocations in the case of women ...
The first thing is that I don't believe that art has sex.
There is no different way to write if you are male or female.
The artist is asexual.
It is the world that makes you sex.
On the other hand, her attitude was very feminist.
Although it was not declared as such.
He always wanted to be independent from both family and partner
It is still discouraging that the feminist issue continues to be the subject of vindication.
Blixen died in 1962.
In any case, we all have to celebrate the new feminist wave that we live, even if it is late, for the simple reason that it doubles the possibilities and doubles the talents.
And that benefits us all.
Until now we were hearing one side of the stereo.
And to what do you think the strong reaction against even from a certain offended left is due?
It is incomprehensible to me.
I think it is simple evolution.
The world as it is is not working well.
And this is good news for everyone.
Already in the movie
Everything is a lie
(1994) I did a bit of myself and I was a feminist.
So what happens now is gratifying.
For a long time I have been ridiculed and now, finally, you see how good.
Laws are one thing and society is another.
It takes time.
But you can't let things go alone, because things never go alone.
Upside down.
Every time there are two steps forward, a reduction of the right to abortion comes to you ...
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