Cate Blanchett: "The Spanish language is a key element of universal cinema"

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The place is ugly.

And perhaps there goes the grace and even the charm.

Ugliness can be an intense emotion.

The Palau de Calatrava sprouts horns like the space beasts devised by Verhoeven in

And yet, in his completely off-budget brutality, he manages to endear himself.

And in the middle,

.

At noon on Saturday, the actress from '

' who was also and forever Galadriel in

, Blue Jasmine and even the woman who best embodied Bob Dylan made an appearance in that space.

And in contrast, grace.

And the charm.

And even the most obvious nonsense.

"I feel very flattered.

Spanish cinema and in Spanish. I am working with Alfonso Cuarón and recently I did it with Guillermo del Toro. The Spanish language is a key element in universal cinema. I am Australian and seeing myself here confirms to me that art is capable of transcending cultures", commented the actress with a determined gesture, wide smile and sneakers.

The actress, in addition to being an international producer, appeared before the media to honor a new Goya,

which is something like the Goya because you are worth it.

Or because yes.

Or the Goya of we were few and... The fact is that it was there.

Elegant in a place that is not.

has something to do with all this .

It is an adaptation in the strict sense of part of the 43 stories that make up the anthology '

by

.

Whichever way you look at it, an event.

For all.

Because of the importance of the text, because of the relevance of the production and because of the feeling that permeates everything of attending an event.

"Pedro", he said by way of introduction, "I have known him for 20 years and we have always been thinking about the possibility of working together. In the past we were ready and it did not work out. Now everything has coincided so that is finally possible. We already started talking yesterday and working...".

In the actress's opinion, what is relevant in this new project is both the original text and the very vision of what she did not hesitate to describe as "author".

"Almodóvar is much more than an excellent screenwriter," she said.

And she added,

If you will, there is something of a coincidence, even without exaggeration, between the presentation on Saturday morning and the very essence of a writing, that of Berlin, which feeds equally on freedom, emotion and truth.

That of the American author, which Almodóvar appropriates in her own way, is

neither misery nor vulgarity nor corruption nor simply the ugly.

And it is there, among so much dirty banality, among so much voracity in flames, where the brightness of the inalienable for simply beautiful arises.

Blanchett in the belly of the Palau has something of that.

But without exaggeration of course.

For Blanchett, as for everyone, cinema is experiencing a turning point in every way possible and imaginable.

In his opinion, and this is where the role to be played by festivals as well as by the academies themselves, such as that of Spanish cinema, comes in, it is necessary to look to the future "and take charge of the new movements such as

.

"You have to face the present without fear, but without stopping to look at what is coming," she said.

And not content with leaving everything in more or less high-sounding statements, she did not hesitate to set an example for herself, along with her vocation as an interpreter, to expand on her second vocation as a producer.

"For ten years I worked with my husband in the theater and I realized that I love to produce in a creative way beyond simply financing projects. The public believes that actors are puppets and, in reality, we have an active role that it also makes us producers", she said, immediately afterwards showing her conviction of at least two things: a)

and b) the certainty of her passion: "

But her restlessness insisted yesterday on being at least like the building that sheltered her.

Because of the size, not because of its ugly.

Blanchett is also concerned with the cinema itself.

All of him.

"Cinema was already in danger before the pandemic," she said when asked about the emergence of platforms and the decline of movie theaters.

"I had hope that when the confinement was over, we would meet again in cinemas, in theaters, in concerts... I do not lose hope. But I am aware that everything has changed after spending 18 months consuming products (I hate this word ) across platforms."

Pause.

"Platforms have given new opportunities to new creators, but

New pause and glorious closing: "In any case, the cinema is nourished by great ideas and the size of the screen does not matter if the idea is great. We must resist and we must not fall into a serialized model where the value of stories to meet a single model".

It is clear.

Blanchett is definitely bigger than the Palau.

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