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We treat women too well is one of the feature films competing in the official section of the 27th Malaga Festival. Starring the actors Antonio de la Torre and Carmen Machihas a cast that is worth carats, thanks to Luis Tosar, Óscar Ladoire or Julián Villagrán.
Precisely the last two have shared some time with EL ESPAÑOL from Málaga in a frenetic day of promotion. Ladoire plays a character who for him is “a hottie like few I have had in my life”. As he explains, this is a guy who has been a teacher and who is really absurd despite his advanced age. In the case of Villagrán, he embodies the “least military soldier” of the platoon, the most sensitive. “He is a couturier. I think he has fallen there a little without being able to sing the Face to sun“, he comments. “The two are two human beings in a situation as absurd as a war,” Óscar summarizes.
It should be remembered that the film is about war, but from a very different tone, based on black humor, bordering on the absurd and grotesque. It talks about the two Spains and dates back to 1945. Remedios Buendía (Carmen Machi) defends her homeland and fights throughout the film to prove it. Especially when a group of maquis on the run have the bad idea of taking over the post where she, excited, tries on her wedding dress.
The project came to Julián thanks to Antonio de la Torre, who was involved in the film from the beginning. The man from Malaga offered him to play Julián. “I don’t know if he was the name of the character and my person… But he remembered me,” he points out with a smile. When reading the script, he assures that He went crazy to be part of this rara avis. Ladoire read the novel that gives him his name many years ago and assures that he didn’t know anything about it because “I’m ignorant about anything,” but that Miguel Barros’s script fascinated him. “I thought I had to go out no matter what, even if it was a streetlight,” the renowned actor confesses with a laugh.
Many of the crew received thorough military advice before filming began. “We spent a month living with the rifle and rehearsing the military dynamics to see how we entered the post, how we moved through the field,” says Villagrán, to which Ladoire adds: “We are not yet ready to go to Ukraine to defend it.”
They were worried that they would be seen clumsy in front of the cameras with the rifle in their hand. “In the end it has become another extension of our arm,” says Villagrán. “And I would add something in homage to Mr. Fernando Fernán Gómez, who said ‘I, I go to the mark and say the text, but what you cannot expect is for me to talk while the mark arrives.’ Well, we did the same, we took the rifle and had to talk, it has noses!“, dice.
Filming allowed them to fall in love with Galicia. something happened more than a month in a small village in Galicia, San Simón, “the one with the cheeses!” “When you leave home and concentrate like Big Brother to do a project, it is a great experience; the involvement and coexistence with your colleagues from a different place, you don’t go back home to sleep and disconnect… It’s fantastic,” Julián Villagrán relates.
Cinema
Although Óscar Ladoire had already seen the film at the time of the interview, Julián Villagrán had not yet done so. On the AVE on the way to Malaga he was about to put it on his cell phone and Ladoire asked him to wait to see it with an audience in the cinema, as he believes that is how a work like this should be seen.
“I don’t want to sound like a dictator, but I advise that this film should be seen like this. I’m not one to sell, but Watching this movie in the cinema is like breathing fresh mountain air, wonderful“says Ladoire.
Given his great experience, he listened to him. “I have come to Malaga many times and the public here is incredible. I agreed with the maestro and I decided to wait to see him surrounded by the wonderful public“, account.
– Your director says that more than sending a message, she made this movie to entertain
V: In the five minutes that this man let me see him on the train, I couldn’t stop laughing, I can’t wait to see it in its entirety.
L: Say it’s a joke! You didn’t see it because there was no coverage (Laughs)
Ladoire confesses himself as a lover of movie theaters. “I have visited those rooms a lot when you were not yet born and I have lived that experience… I feel like it’s not the same to watch a movie at home. Between the interruptions, what if you are going to remove the microwave, what if a delivery person arrives… You can’t live well like that,” she says.
Julián Villagrán lives very close to the Embajadores Cinemas in Madrid, one of the last surviving theaters in the capital. “They have an impeccable, delicious and careful programming. There they show the movies that I want to see. “They are doing so well that they have opened another one next door,” she says with a smile.
For Ladoire, cinemas are becoming what the big platforms want, with commercial films where, in his opinion, the experience that moviegoers enjoy is subtracted. “That is experienced in those small rooms that resemble arthouse cinemas. With them you feel that again. Maybe we have to reconquer the world again,” Óscar proposes, with a nostalgic sigh.
In his hands, Julián Villagrán holds an analog camera from which he assures that he does not separate.
V: Well look. Vinyl is back, analog is back. Well, maybe cinema is back on the screen
L: Shut up, Julián, you make me happy and excite me… [Hace como que se seca las lágrimas]
“Seriously, I wish the cinemas would open”Ladoire insists. “Having a first date at the movies isn’t the thing anymore, is it?” I ask him. Villagrán puts his hands on his head. “I had a first date at the cinema and I started crying like a cupcake, it went very badly for me… And it was seeing Inside outit was really embarrassing“, Villagrán releases, like a confession.
“You are very sensitive, Julián. I have already told you. Blessed rooms… How many things we will have learned to do in them“Ladoire ditches between laughs.
2024-03-04 04:02:26
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