• Honor José Sacristán, National Film Award 2021

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José sacristan was there. It does not matter a little when this sentence is pronounced. That cinema acquires the character of a mass phenomenon thanks to the outspoken comedy signed by Lazaga, Ozores or Dibildos and that time gave in calling (not without that very Spanish bad milk) "Spanish", then there, Sacristán. First. That new times of democracy, expiation and criticism are experienced by the hand of Olea, Gonzalo Suárez or Camus in what is called New Cinema, then again that of Chinchón that does not fail. That the cinema tries a third way, neither too commercial nor too intellectual, with Garci, Drove or Bodegas, then Sacristán again. That young people like Carlos Vermut, Javier Rebollo or Kiko Maíllo ... has never been absent. More than 30 years ago, he and the producer Alfredo Matas, among others, saw each other for what they did here, in Spain,what he loved so much about there, Hollywood. That is, a Film Academy that gave not the Oscars, but almost. Let's put the Goya.

"Yes, I was one of the nine that we met and, honestly, and without going into details, the thing has fulfilled its objective," he

says recently arrived at the Cullera house where the umpteenth and always brilliant representation of

Señora de red on gray background.

Well, the years passed, hundreds of Goya were delivered (in 2012, finally, Sacristán himself took it for

The Dead and Be Happy)

and it is now that the Academy that he founded decides to remember him in a very special way.

The Goya de Honor 2022

is already for the man who, indeed, was always there.

And it is.

And what's left.

It gives the impression that with so much award (he received the National Film Award in September) they are throwing him out ... I don't have that feeling. It is always good that at the penultimate bend in the road someone offers you the jug so you can move on.

Sacristán says that his ideology is to endure, but not at any price, but with a head. «My idea is not that of dying on stage. I do not intend to fall into the pathetic thing to resist at any cost. Just see how far I can go, but without forcing. At the first sign that I have to stay home, I stayed.

The boss is always Greta Garbo ”

, he comments slowly while insisting that the best and almost the only award he has received in his life has been none other than work. «I am aware of being privileged because I have never lacked work. Sometimes I did not come to pay the bills, but I have never stopped being there ", he adds, not so much proud, but also, as simply aware. And grateful.

Sacristán is recognized as a student of

Fernando Fernán Gómez.

From him he says that he has learned but everything, yes the most important. Not in vain, his next project has to do with a text taken from the

teacher's

yellow

memoirs

and that in mid-December will occupy the Madrid room of, in effect, Fernando Fernán Gómez. From him he learned ambition and the true meaning of success. «Fernando was clear that no actor wants to be the one who says" Mr. Count, the soup is served ", but rather the one who says" to be or not to be ", or to tell Julieta how much he loves her or to strangle Desdemona .... That is the ambition of an actor.

But the real success is when the electricity bill arrives at the end of the month and you can pay it, "he adds.

It has been 30 years since the Academy began to give awards.

And there he was.

On February 12 at the gala in Valencia, it will be again.

With his Goya de Honor.

He dares to draw a parallel between the path of the Academy and that of Spanish society ... That is complicated.

It occurs to me, and even if it is a joke, that in the Academy at least the president has not fled.

Saying this hurts me.

I believed the film of the King Emeritus and with his flight the story of the Transition has annoyed us.

Well, whatever is said of Spanish cinema, no president has fled.

And there it continues.

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