• Goya Awards 2021: The remainder of the year

There will be Goya Awards, of course.

But rare.

With Antonio Banderas and the journalist María Casado as hosts, of course.

But in another way.

Everything in this year is different.

On March 6, the 35th edition of the Spanish Film Awards will be held in Malaga at the Soho theater ... but

as if not

.

Banderas and Casado appeared at the Academy on Tuesday to present the keys to what will be (or, better, could have been) the ceremony of yore.

That was the idea.

What ended up being the press conference call was more like a no-show than something like

a no-gala

.

But there will be.

What?

That is another question.

"There is an inherent will in the human being to live. And to live is not to exist, but to carry out the rituals that are part of us.

To live is also to resist,

" said Banderas solemnly and, immediately afterwards, the casualty report began.

From a gala in various stages arranged in various capitals, as was the initial idea, it has already moved to a more modest one with only candidates and no guests when the nominees were announced.

Well, now, yes, without nominees or winners live.

Zoom to power.

"It will be a hybrid gala," said the actor.

And at his side, Mariano Barroso, the president of everything (the Academy included), made an effort to make it clear that they are working on it, that the decision had just been made and that, indeed,

life is full of challenges

.

Yes, there will be, yes, deliverers.

Those who give the statuettes will travel to Malaga, they will dress

ad hoc

and they will learn by heart the joke that happens to them.

"The ritual of not knowing who wins,"

added Banderas, "will continue because that is an essential part of all this."

There will also, of course, be musical numbers.

That, it seems, is not remedied by a global pandemic.

The Soho Pop Symphony Orchestra will be there.

And with her, Vanesa Martín and Aitana.

According to Casado the two will act, but they will do so in tune with Rosalía's performance not so long ago that she surprised with a particular version of the main theme of

Deprisa, quickly

.

That is, they

will sing, but it seems to be a cinema.

Banderas says that he hopes this gala will be the kick-off.

Of everything.

There will be the trigger for

the Berlanga year, which is already in its centenary,

and there will be for the beginning of everything to come.

"We are all exhausted and hopefully this celebration means the recovery of cinema and the recovery of all this," added Banderas.

And we believe him, of course.

In this way, the definitions used by the directors of the gala, which is also a ceremony and a television show, ranged

from elegance to simplicity

(the two expressions used by Banderas) to emotionality.

And here they all stopped.

Because of the covid and all that it means, "

the emotion will come alone, without forcing it,

" insisted Banderas.

And he continued: "Whatever happens, they will be the Goya of the covid and as such they will be remembered. And that, for better and for worse, makes them special. Those who win will be those who won the year of the pandemic. And forever ".

For the rest, Barroso insisted on the responsibility of sending a message to society.

And that requires discipline.

"

It's not about improvising but about adapting to circumstances,

" Barroso said in an undisguised effort to say something.

Although it was not clear what.

And so.

No parties, no rugs (or "we'll see"), no nominees ... With Goya.

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