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Feroz de Honor Pedro Almodóvar: "My cowboys say things that have never been heard in a western"
In all the Feroz Awards there is always a speech that becomes the protagonist of the night.
Last night it was that of
Pedro Almodóva
r.
The director from La Mancha
received the Feroz de Honor
and turned the 20 minute speech into an avalanche of emotions, humor and a message of protest
in defense of Public Health
.
Almodóvar would go on stage and break into pieces when he saw an image of his mother in one of the cameos in his films in the presentation video.
"With these prizes one feels in a thousand ways, and one of them is very fragile. It is one of the prizes in which one should not cry, but you have put an image of my mother saying that she will call him and it
is too hard and too exciting
", explained the filmmaker after not being able to contain the tears.
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"I've absolutely collapsed, I'm sorry.
My mother has inspired almost all the movies I've made
," continued the director wrapped up on stage by a dozen of his women, from
Milena Smit
, who tried to comfort him, to
Rossy de Palma
,
Julieta Serrano
,
Bibiana Fernández
,
Aitana Sánchez-Gijón
and
Leonor Watling
.
Very exciting moments that
Almodóvar
tried to overcome by grabbing the paper of his prepared speech and assuring that the honorary awards will not withdraw him, humorously breaking
the most emotional moment of the entire Feroz gala
.
And it has been his speech that today, like every year in the Feroz, has become the most commented.
In it, the director of
Todo sobre mi madre
, took a journey from his childhood, "of authentic terror" during his time in the Salesians and which he already reflected in the film
Bad Education
, to the importance that cinema was for him, his lifeline: "Not only did it annul reality and make it disappear:
cinema has engulfed my life, both as a spectator and as a director
. Filming takes my pain away, I have become addicted to its adrenaline, like war reporters who return home and they don't know how to lead a normal life.
But, without a doubt, in addition to the moment remembering his mother, Almodóvar's speech drew applause from those present when he defended doctors and Public Health without mincing words.
Using old age as the common thread,
Almodóvar asked for applause, "let's see if he reaches the Puerta del Sol in Madrid"
, for the health workers who "exposed their lives in the pandemic, in the face of the barbarism that is taking place in the Community where I live."
"Their vocation - that of doctors - is to cure and on many occasions
they cannot do so due to the chaotic and precarious situation in which primary care services live
".
Something that, as he has defended, "naturally affects hospital emergencies and puts our health system on the brink of collapse"
The director went on to denounce that "our health system is on the brink of collapse."
And, although he has been aware that "the gala has another purpose", he did not want to miss the opportunity of his Feroz de Honor to make visible that
"the health problems of Spaniards affect us all, regardless of whether some of us have the possibility of going to private healthcare"
.
"The universal and free public health system is one of the pillars of our welfare society. For them.
Hopefully this will come to Madrid
," he concluded to a standing ovation from the audience.
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