Chronicle.'The girls' prevail in the best Goya gala ever
Gala, the perfect silences of Banderas
Pilar palomero (Zaragoza, 1980)
remembers the moment in Berlin, back in February 2020, when she presented
The Girls
for the first time.
The coronavirus was hardly a bad omen that only kept the doomsayers awake.
In front of her, the auditorium completely full of the cinema, which is also a cultural center, Urania, one of the largest in a city with at least three of the most enormous theaters in Europe.
I remember it now as a dream.
Especially since that no longer happened.
In the commercial premiere, already in September, the capacity was reduced by 50% and the day before we did not even know with certainty if the film was going to be able to be screened ", he comments with the noise of the gala, he also turned into a memory.
And in a dream.
«This morning I got up and I was not sure what had happened.
It sounds cliché, but for a moment
I was afraid and I was convinced that I had dreamed everything ... »,
He says, already installed in the harsh reality of the hangover, the winner of, in order, the Goya for best film, the one for the new direction and the one for the original script.
To the three we must add the director of photography for the Bolivian
Daniela Cajías
.
"And perhaps, the truth, this is the most important of all," he concludes.
Once again, the Spanish Film Awards gala held on Saturday and with an imperial Antonio Banderas in the role of host became a thermometer not only for the film industry itself in particular and for culture in general, but also for the society's own health.
Ours.
And closer to 8-M.
Every year the usual nightmare, that of inequality.
In a film that has made her way of being in the world for the first time, she was the first to get a cinematographer to acquire the highest honor.
According to the latest survey of academics, of the 57 members in this specialty, only five are not men.
In guilds such as special effects (37 versus one) or sound (61 versus five) the disproportion is similar.
It would seem that the general map offers a picture in which they, and to summarize a lot, are few, poor and without command.
«For me it is an enormous pride and it is time.
I sincerely believe that little by little it is being achieved and I am convinced that it is not due to a coincidence nor is it a specific event ... There is a generation that little by little that is given a chance will make things and figures change.
The problem is that many stay in the first movie and that's it.
Women are still unable to direct and access projects with the highest budgets, "he says jerkily and is well aware that Girls are still far from being the measure of anything.
"We are an exception that aspires to let it be," he says.
And he continues: "But for now ... not even in the best dreams."
Pilar says that she has yet to see the gala: "He already has his one who has touched me to debut with a ceremony like this one."
While Banderas was showing off in Malaga the largest contact list that the cinematographic being has ever known, she and a reduced representation of her film for not completely skipping the Covid protocol got together in a hotel in Barcelona.
All dressed in gala in front of the computer and surrounded by their talismans: the canvas that the film announced at the Berlinale, the photo of the entire team that walked through the festivals they could, and the certainty that dreaming is, in addition to being free, a privilege blessed.
«I didn't find out anything, nothing was heard and, every so often, I had to get up for an interview.
It was like a nightmare within the dream itself
,
"he
says.
If asked about the reasons for the success of a film that has not only been successful in Malaga but also in the
Forqué and the Feroz
, he refers to the numerous encounters with audiences that are always small because, again, of how rare All this.
«The film creates an emotional bond with many people and for very different reasons.
There is a generational component.
We are very used to seeing the 80s portrayed, but the 90s are rarely the protagonists.
The image that comes to us of them, in addition and because of what they meant in Spain today, is very distorted.
Many people come to share with me their experience as I do in the film, which is very autobiographical, with them ", he says, takes a breath and continues:" On the other hand, the film talks about what it meant then in a country still so indebted to Franco's past being a
single-parent family.
What I have come to realize from the messages I have received (and that has been a surprise) is that exclusion is still installed in society.
It is not at all standardized.
When it comes to making a registration or taking a child on an excursion, there are still gestures from the institutions that give us away ».
If we add to all of this that The Girls was the movie chosen by many to get out of confinement, the result is ... "a movie that people make their own in an almost personal way."
The girls,
for those who still remain, runs in Zaragoza.
And it does it from the smallest detail.
«In my childhood, cloth bags that cost 5,000 pesetas and were a mark of status became fashionable.
And that, I think, was only lived there, in Zaragoza », he explains.
And it is there in the meticulousness of the setting where, in his own way, he opens another battle front:
"In Spain it is difficult to understand that there is life beyond Barcelona and Madrid
.
"
And so far the first dream.
More will come.
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