Javier Fesser: "We must turn around the current model of showing films"

He is convinced that we have plenty of the simplicity of the cynical and we lack the complexity of the only naive. And understand the phrase without a hint of cynicism. In the ideas of

, failure is the most evident of virtues.

is his next feature film after the incontestable success of

(2018) and that places him in the almost cynical problem of having to justify himself: can one succeed at the hand of a shortcut of glorious losers? And one more contradiction: Is it legal to vindicate cinema by letting it be a platform (

) that premieres the film?

What has the misfortune that is always so funny? Well, basically, it is alien.

We always believe that what happens to others will not happen to us.

Error.

Don't trust anyone Mack Sennett used to say that a comedy is when someone falls into a ditch and kills themselves.

the tragedy is when you get a stepfather ... It's a way of looking at it (laughs).

The vast majority of comedies are based on catastrophes.

I'm especially interested in characters who accumulate many more failures than successes in their resume.

We all accumulate more failures than successes.

But I don't think failure is negative.

Everything that goes wrong, what happens in a different way than you had planned, is in the end what makes you grow and learn.

And then, why does the failure have such bad press? We live in a society that insists on hiding everything that goes wrong.

And not.

naivety, sincerity ... It must be recognized that we are the result of all our mistakes. What you just said is especially important now, at a time when everything that could come out Bad has ended up going bad ... I can't think of a worse year for almost everything than this 2020, without a doubt.

We live in a particularly dark time, but, without being too obvious, I prefer to see what is positive about all this that we live.

That there is.

Including the way to release films? Yes,

(the system that establishes that between the cinema and any other form of exploitation of a film have to pass three months), to the current way of releasing.

We have decided to release first on a platform and then in theaters.

See what happens.

The owners of the films are their audiences and that is why we have decided to put it in their hands as soon as possible. It is a decision that has not sat down well with cinemas that complain that they have nothing to offer.

After all, this is the movie that follows the success of 'Champions'.

What will become of the cinema if we run out of theaters? I am convinced that we will be more strongly in theaters for the general public and for the partners of the platform who want to see it again on the big screen.

The two ways of watching movies, far from fighting each other, will coexist because it is already happening.

Sounds like an excuse, no.

The effort that must be made has to be focused on making films that people want to see.

Wherever they are and in whatever situation.

Let's make interesting movies and all the other discussions will fade.

In a few months we will see.

We will see who is right and who is wrong.

We could have stood still and premiered when everyone else, after the pandemic.

But we have decided to take the initiative and release it around the world. Is Fesser's humor, so full of butane bottles, jugs and Castilian moors, universal? I can only speak of my experience as a spectator.

To me personally, the more local a movie is, the better it seems to me.

And that goes for the most specific Ukrainian joke and for everyone.

On the contrary, it is very noticeable when someone wants to please everyone and, in the end, fails to reach anyone.

I will only say that with '

' I have traveled the whole world and everywhere the answer is the same.

I imagine that the Ukrainian will have problems with the Aragonese accent ... No.

The effect is the same as when someone speaks with an Idaho accent in a Coen Brothers movie.

You don't understand it, but you understand that it's weird.

You perceive it.

Then you realize that each audience detects one thing and they are things that you yourself have not known to foresee.

To go back to the beginning, the whole world agrees in its being pitiful ... There it is, in 'The Invisible Monster', your previous short, the pitiful are the members of a society that allows children to die of hunger ... There is a part of my cinema that has nothing to do with the box office or with budgets or with critics ... It is a cinema designed to educate and awaken empathy.

It is a cinema to give voice to others.

In any case,

And the first one he has to surprise is me.

That's why maybe I don't want to do the second part of '

'.

For any creative process it is essential to feel fear and doubt your abilities. Do you think we live in a world that is too cynical? Without a doubt.

We dedicate most of our intellectual capacity to hiding our disability. How does the autonomy of the characters of 'Champions' who even announce lottery on their own live? Very happy and very proud.

In addition, I will say that the three actors who repeat with me in '

' do so because of their ability, not because of their disability.

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