09/17/2021 7:40 PM
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Updated 09/17/2021 7:40 PM
Penelope Cruz said today at the San Sebastián Film Festival, where she presented the film
Official Competition
at a press conference
, that the way of working of the directors Gastón Duprat and Mariano Cohn is "very attractive" and announced that there are "plans" to repeat with them.
The artist, who was with her fellow cast members
Oscar Martínez
and
Antonio Banderas
, while the directors listened to her in a videoconference from Argentina, stated that she greatly admires Cohn and Duprat from
The Illustrious Citizen
- also, she added, "for their masterful work of Oscar "-, because" they are very wise when it comes to laughing at absurdity ".
This type of uncomfortable comedy, of which Official Competition is a magnificent example and opens the Pearls section today, "is becoming their specialty," said Cruz, adding that, in his opinion, "they do it with charm, a grace and an intelligence that is very attractive, in fact, we have a few more plans to delve in that direction. "
Penelope presents the French Marion Cotillard with the Donostia Award for her career at the San Sebastian Festival.
AFP photo
The actress explained that she has always been "fascinated" by comedy;
he was "lucky" to play that genre hand in hand with the best, "Rafael Azcona and the Trueba family, and also in the world of Almodóvar, where sometimes there is more comedy than drama".
"I am not more afraid of drama than comedy, but comedy time is so delicate ...", he pointed out, to later deny that, when the public laughs and leaves a room "with a light feeling "I think it's easier, but it's not like that. Duprat added in that sense that they never consider making a comedy when they think of cinema, but" that ends up coming out. "
Oscar Martínez and the Spaniards Cruz and Antonio Banderas, pose before the press conference of "Official Competition", in the Basque Country.
AFP photo
"We have a vision of reality that coincides with this, it is our gaze. We do not handle the genre a priori, but we like Berlanga a lot", although they are not one of those "film-loving directors" who absorb from other cinemas, he said.
Cohn stated that the only premise from which they started is that "it had to be awkward."
It "refers", acknowledges Cohn, "to other works of ours, but always in complicity with the actors, who act in the key of drama. It is almost a documentary performance, even if the situation is comedy. One has to come out of there with a smile".
The movie
In the film, Cruz becomes a film director who is closer to a visual artist, explains Duprat, as crazy in her methods as her look: "That woman walks through the door and you want to run away."
Penelope Cruz laughs complicit about her creation, highlighted by spectacular curly red hair: "When I saw that wig, there was no turning back."
It was the 47-year-old from Madrid who said that "there are plans" to re-shoot with Argentine filmmakers.
Reuters photo
Banderas and Martínez play the two best actors of the moment, with opposite working methods and impressive egos.
The film takes the manias of the stars to the extreme, something in which none were recognized. Banderas joked that "they were not so exaggerated things", and defended that Argentine directors "always find the ridiculous point" and applauded their ability to laugh of it.
"We were generous and unapologetic," Banderas said.
On this, Penelope Cruz stressed that directors "take humor out of absurd situations, but without ridiculing the profession."
The directors reported that they had worked with a choral script, "where each one contributed their share of poison", and that they started from a single premise, to have a good time filming, because "filming is very boring".
Irene Escolar, Oscar Martínez, Penélope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, heading to the premiere of "Official Competition".
Reuters photo
"We shot with a witness camera and let the actors expand in long shots where all the takes were treated as masters. This," said Cohn, "can only be done if you have actors as huge as these."
For Martínez, the script was very attractive, not only because of the genre but because of "what it was about. It is not easy in the cinema to have such long sequences without the intervention of the directors; we had time to taxi and for the performance to take flight" .
All three actors envy, in their own way, the way France treats its culture.
For Cruz, in Spain "it goes seasonally", although he defends that in the street the public's feeling of recognition is constant. Banderas affirms that the actors feel "sometimes used" and Martínez gave an example of the "state" burials that France gave Yves Montand and recently Jean-Paul Belmondo.
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