The filmmaker Fernando Trueba: “I do not really feel like adapting to a fucking cell phone”


The Spanish filmmaker collects this Saturday in Cáceres the San Pancracio de Honor award on the XXX Spanish Film FestivalHe has mirrored, in a gathering with the general public and the press, on the abandonment of cinemas because of the rise of platforms”I’d put as a matter the topic of slowness is necessary: listening to somebody, studying and considering, taking a look at a portray and reflecting”, has mentioned

“I do not really feel like embracing this world; I would like this world to adapt to me. Why am I going to adapt to a fucking cell phone? If I can, I’ll break it,” mentioned filmmaker Fernando Trueba (Madrid, 1955). in Cáceres, the place tonight he receives the San Pancracio de Honor award on the XXX Spanish Film Festival.

Trueba has mirrored, in a gathering with the general public and the press, on the digitization of audiovisual content material and the abandonment of film theaters because of the rise of platforms, and has harassed that “the reply lies in training”.

In this assembly, through which the remainder of the San Pancracio awardees have additionally gathered on the Helga de Alvear Museum in Cáceres, he has urged to not resign: “If we monitor and spend money on training we could have one other society.”

“I’d make slowness a obligatory topic: listening to somebody, studying and considering, taking a look at an image and reflecting. That ought to be a part of training. Now all the things is bullshit, with jobs reduce and pasted with the ipad”, has added.

His brother, additionally a filmmaker David Trueba, has additionally mirrored on this facet.

“There are sturdy pursuits on this planet being accelerated; aside from Extremadura”, David Trueba has ironized in reference to the Extremaduran prepare and the dearth of connections within the area.

“The acceleration within the information shouldn’t be harmless, 95% of what occurs is hidden to solely affect what’s of curiosity,” he specified.

This, based on Trueba, “leads younger folks to a really confused and irritating emotional state at ages when this didn’t occur earlier than; with suicide charges persevering with to rise. Now we’ve extra life expectancy and even so, we didn’t arrive. It does not give us time; one thing occurs”.

During the assembly, Fernando Trueba criticized the statements made by the younger Extremaduran actress Clara Alvarado, Reyes Abades Award winner, who identified that “we could have no selection however to embrace new applied sciences and platforms”.

“Well, I do not really feel prefer it,” Trueba snapped at him, assuring that “cinema can’t be an onanistic exercise that’s not shared.”

Precisely, the expertise in a movie show is one other of the problems which have arisen on this assembly, moderated by the communicator José María Clemente.

While the actress Mónica López (San Pancracio Televisión for the sequence “Rapa”) has affirmed that she doesn’t have “platforms”, the actress Vicky Luengo has appealed to the “shared expertise of viewing a movie in a room, as a result of at dwelling she stops be expertise”.

Luengo will decide up tonight on the Gran Teatro de Cáceres his San Pancracio for Best Actress for “Suro”, Miquel Gurrea’s first movie.

On the opposite hand, Luengo and likewise the director Félix Viscarret (San Pancracio directing for his newest movie “Don’t look into the eyes”) have emphasised the great harvest of Spanish cinema, mentioning titles reminiscent of “Cinco Lobitos”, “Alcarràs ” and “The maternal one”.

“This 12 months I’ve stopped listening to that chorus about our cinema that ‘it does not appear Spanish'”, Luengo has certified, one thing that has been corroborated by the Argentine actor Leonardo Sbaraglia, who has developed his prolific profession between his native nation and Spain with a couple of hundred titles, and who will accumulate the San Pancracio for Best Actor for “Love Me.”

Sbaraglia has maintained that “the standard of cinema and audiovisuals in Spain has grown loads” and has referred to the sequence “Antidisturbios” by Sorogoyen, which appeared to him, he mentioned, “a bestiality”.

Lastly, Luis Callejo, Best Actor in a Series for “Apagón”, and the current winner of the Goya for New Director and San Pancracio on this identical class, Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (“Cinco lobitos”), have expressed their reluctance to talk of a “female look” to advertise the creation of extra audiovisual content material by ladies.

“The female look is well-intentioned to assist the voices of girls in administration, however that time period feels a bit outdated as a result of it makes us all equal and locations us in a distinct segment,” concluded Alauda Ruiz de Azúa.