Víctor Erice's huge evening in Cannes lastly arrived.
Víctor Erice's big evening in Cannes lastly arrived. His Cerrar los ojos marked the Basque filmmaker's return to characteristic movies 30 years after El sol del membrillo, awarded with the jury prize in a contest that in 1983 already screened the masterful El sur. However Erice didn't go to the Croisette in the long run, for "private causes", as he argued. The official silence on his presence already took middle stage on Monday, when he didn't seem on the photocall with the actors José Coronado, Ana Torrent, Manolo Solo, María León and Helena Miquel.
Be that as it might, Cerrar los ojos amazed the viewers attending the Debussy theater for its genuine providing of a cinema that existed and won't return. A cinema during which Miguel Garay (Manolo Solo) takes refuge because the director of a movie within the nineties that would not be completed because of the mysterious disappearance of the actor and pal protagonist, performed by a splendid Coronado. Twenty-two years after the occasions, a program of occasions of the fashion ¿Quién sabe dónde? he investigates the case once more and Garay will get concerned within the course of, and appears again to a narrative written by Michel Gaztambide that pours into reminiscence and the passage of time, along with failure, oblivion, friendship or love during which Erice weaves a big work cooked on a gradual hearth, with prodigious images, silences and appears that say all of it.
The movie additionally marks the director's reunion with Ana Torrent 50 years after El espíritu de la colmena, the movie during which the actress debuted on the large display on the age of six. "I nonetheless have reminiscences of that shoot, when Víctor met me in school, the conversations with him... I keep in mind it as if I had entered a magical world", remembers Torrent in a dialog with La Vanguardia, very moved by the nice and cozy reception of Cerrar los ojos, which he noticed right here for the primary time. "I want a number of days to recover from all this, as a result of it has been actually thrilling."
The actress and Erice have saved in contact all this time. "He informed me that he had a script, that he needed to make a movie and that he needed me. I could not imagine it. And right here started the thrill that has been all this. The act of affection and generosity in direction of me and in direction of the cinema. As a result of there's lots of reflection in direction of his cinema and id", says Torrent, for whom the movie has many particulars of Erice's life itself, "from the character embodied by Manolo Solo to the clear references to El ambrujo de Shanghai, for which he wrote the script, however didn't get to shoot it".
The actress defines Erice "as a really exact director who appears to be like for lots of naturalness and leaves nothing to probability. Taking pictures with him once more has been good and simple." Of her Ana feedback that "she is a girl who feels deserted by a father who seems and disappears". And in it, as in the entire story, the gaze is there. Awaiting a solution.
Solo was additionally shocked by the standing ovation on Monday evening. "It hooked me as a spectator, and took me on the journey that Víctor desires to suggest", says the actor, who, as well as, was already very applauded within the scene during which he sings his model of My rifle, my pony and me Río Bravo. Solo, who has the total weight of the operate, was shocked that Erice had not introduced up rehearsals or talked concerning the character. "The slogan he gave me at first was to desert myself to the thriller. He's a person with a really robust character, and I've mine too. However in the long run I am very pleased with what we achieved." And he defines his function, for which he wears white and wrinkled hair, as "a person with a backpack of wounds and scars who makes a journey to reunite along with his previous and who travels by many locations bodily and emotionally".
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