Alberto Rey
Updated Sunday, January 21, 2024-21:34
Antonio Resines
appeared punctually in
What happened to Jorge Sanz?
Like almost all the well-known faces that appeared in David Trueba
's extraordinary series
, he played himself in a turbo version.
That Resines was a cynical guy obsessed with money.
In
Serrines, actor's wood
repeats the play.
This time he does it as the protagonist... and without grace.
Sawdust, actor's wood
arrives late and is born old.
If the presence of Resines in
What happened to Jorge Sanz?
We read it more as an act of friendship than as a professional strategy, we cannot see Sanz in
Serrines, an actor's character
in any other way.
Small detail: the disastrous life of the fictional-non-fictional Jorge Sanz had fun (and cruel) parallels with the real one, while Serrines is
a character that doesn't even work as a parody
.
What happened to Jorge Sanz?
It was not the whim of a boring actor: it was his immolation in the name of the best comedy.
Sawdust, actor's wood
is the complete opposite.
Jorge gave himself over to
a ruthless fiction-non-fiction
;
Antonio always makes it clear that he is the one in charge.
This hinders the mechanism of self-referential comedy, because it offers its
victim
very obvious protection.
Sawdust, actor's wood
cheats, and that no longer works.
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Serrines' dislocation in today's world is not fun.
It only demonstrates the real dislocation of Resines and his screenwriters in the audiovisual world of 2024.
Serrines, actor's wood,
arrives
more than 10 years late
.
20, if we consider the way he makes it easier for viewers to access his supposed jokes.
His winks and nudges to the audience are made from the solitude of a bar counter where the only one who laughs at your jokes is the waiter.
They pay you to do it.
It is obvious and painful to compare this new series with
What Happened to Jorge Sanz?
, but not to do so would be to treat
Sawdust, actor's wood
with a condescension much crueler than any destructive criticism.
David Trueba and Jorge Sanz decided not to put on seat belts in their series.
That made this one not only hilarious, but also very exciting.
In one of his best sequences, Jorge stumbles upon a filming in the streets of Madrid.
A technician works there with whom the actor shared moments of glory
when Spanish cinema surrendered at his feet and I won't even tell you the girls
.
It is a beautiful moment in which
What happened to Jorge Sanz?
he knows what series he is and what series he can aspire to be.
Sawdust, actor's wood
is the story of
an outdated actor who has been passed over by the modern world
.
Many of his jokes are about that modern world that is sometimes ridiculous but often not.
In the hands of David Trueba, Jorge Sanz did just the opposite.
He knew that the train of life had left him behind and he was trying to get back on it in motion.
Resines-Serrines wants to convince us that if the train were slower and not full of strange people, the world would be much better.
That, well written and well performed, could work.
It is not the case.