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Rodrigo Cortés
(Pazos Hermos, Orense, 1973) does not stop.
He premieres his film
(
El amor en su lugar
) in theaters, bookstores have in a privileged place his
novel
The Extraordinary Years
, he has just released one of the
Stories to not sleep
(Amazon Prime Video) and continues to sweep his
Almighty
podcast
with Arturo González-Campos, Juan Gómez-Jurado, and Javier Cansado.
That is why, when asked if he rests, he responds quickly:
"Time is not magic, so I steal it from my sleep to work and do things. I
sleep 4 or 5 hours a day ...
Sometimes, what takes away your Life is what gives it to you.
So I hope that everything is in tables. "
Much of the cast of 'Love in its place'.
A FILM OUT OF THE COMMON
After having surprised years ago with
Buried (Buried)
, a claustrophobic thriller with Ryan Reynolds
, directing
Sigourney Weaver and Robert De Niro in
Red Lights
or
Uma Thurman in
Blackwood
,
his new project for the cinema has also been shot in English. "
Fear is one of the reasons why I make decisions.
And here I did not see anything clear, so I had sufficient reasons to make the film."
Love in its place
is, in addition to an
impressive exercise in style when recounting the action in real time
, a film that
does not have a specific genre.
.. if not all. Romance, thriller, drama, musical and even comedy in a story about a group of actors who perform a play in the Warsaw ghetto, with the long shadow of the Nazis making their lives impossible.
"Time is the most expensive material there is.
It is important and here I have tried to offer a physical and sensory experience", the director points out.
"There are no time jumps and everything happens in real time. That forced the actors to constantly change registers. And
the rhythm mattered to me, that everything had a musical sense and one thing led to another."
The talk that brought Cortés to Scorsese.
'FRIEND' OF SCORSESE
Praised by critics who have already seen it and awaiting the verdict of the public,
The love in its place
directed by this Salamanca-born born in Orense
has the blessing of none other than Martin Scorsese.
At the Princess of Asturias Awards, the two film directors had the opportunity to chat on several occasions.
And, when he was
about to edit
Love in His Place
, Cortés decided to show it to the director
of
Taxi Driver
,
One of Ours
or
The Wolf of Wall Street
.
"I met him at the awards and was able to share conversations with him. When I finished filming
Love in His Place
, I sent it to him to New York.
It was the only film that made him leave his home during the pandemic, according to what he told me.
We talked for several hours. And he told me that he liked it very much and that he would do to move it around the US And he confessed that he did not know that piece of history that the tape tells.
He told me a lot about the editing of my film.
He, who is the best director and editor in the history of cinema! ".
Rodrigo Cortés directed Ryan Reynolds in 'Buried (Buried)'.
SPIELBERG ECHOES
To the taste of moviegoers,
Rodrigo Cortés admits having had
The Devil on Wheels
very much in mind
.
That film,
shot by a very young Steven Spielberg
, is a marvel for how with little means and minimal plot (a driver being harassed on the road by a truck driver) Spielberg was able to capture the viewer's attention. And not let go until the end. "That movie was very much in mind when I made
Buried
. It was very Hitchcock-like in terms of the strange threat coming from the outside. And
Love instead
shares a lot with
Buried
:
the real time, the limited setting and the will. to turn it into a physical experience.
if everything goes well, the viewer will be excited and also exhausted ".
When he remembers his childhood in Salamanca, Rodrigo Cortés admits that he watched a lot of cinema ("I went as much as I could and they let me. And they wouldn't let me repeat a film").
But, in addition,
"in my life the films that I have seen have been as important as the ones that I have invented in my head.
Some I could not see it. So, from an image, a poster or a VHS cover, I imagined them. "
"As a child I had two favorite directors: John Ford because my father said it, and Spielberg, because I said it (laughs). My father was a great movie fan.
Over time, as a teenager, my pagan god became Martin Scorsese." ,
confesses Rodrigo Cortés. "When I saw
The Color of Money
I felt that it was cinema and the rest was not. And then came
Afterhours (Jo, what a night!)
,
Taxi Driver
or
Wild Bull
... When I saw
One of ours
forever changed my experience
as a spectator forever. There
I stopped being a spectator and I thought that that movie crossed the line and you had to be on that other side ".
Image of the novel 'The extraordinary years'.
About
Stories to Sleep
(Amazon Prime Video), the filmmaker has directed one of the four chapters and acknowledges that
"there was a lot of tribute and recognition to Chicho Ibáñez Serrador.
His legacy as a label, brand or firm continues to weigh
heavily
. Chicho carpeted the ground that we step on now and he crossed an impossible line to make it easier for the rest of us. "
Regarding the
Almighty
podcast
, the orensano acknowledges that "there are people who stop me on the street, with great respect, to talk to me about what we do
Arturo González-Campos, Javier Cansado and Juan Gómez-Jurado
. We started at Arturo's house while he was preparing Some lentils and that became number one ... and today it is something very difficult to measure. But
we continue to do what we want.
And we do it because people want to listen to us regardless of what we speak. "
Finally,
his book
The Extraordinary Years
has been the penultimate big surprise for many of Cortés's followers ("
It's a novel that looks a lot like me.
I am a writer before I am a filmmaker and I love the word").
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