Agustí Villaronga (Palma, 1953)
He made movies, he said, because he didn't know or want to do anything else.
His was not a statement from arrogance but rather from despair.
And, rushing, from the recognition of something similar to loneliness.
He liked to remember (from fear perhaps) that as a child, barely 14 years old, he dared to write a letter from Roberto Rossellini to make it clear (to himself, to the greatest of directors and to the world) what his passion was .
And even his condemnation.
Agustí Villaronga died on Sunday at the age of 69 due to cancer that had been haunting him for more than a year.
And beyond masterpieces like his almost lightning debut with 'Behind the glass' or tightrope walking exercises like 'El niño de la lluvia' or his monumental trilogy of the Civil War that began with the incontestable 'Pá negre' or his lyrical '
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