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At the beginning of La Gomera, Romanian director’s film Cornelieu Porumboiu (already in theaters), the protagonist, Cristi (Vlad Ivanov), a corrupt cop, mob snitch arrives on the ferry to the island of La Gomera. A clear sky, that rugged coastline, the sea. It seems that paradise awaits you. Comes escaping from a gray, sad, dangerous Bucharest. He comes to meet a great woman, Gilda (Catrinel Marlon), already learn the gomero whistle to be able to continue his relationship with the bad guys. But it takes little time to realize that, even lost there, they are still watching him.
“I was attracted to the idea of showing that in a controlled company in which everyone must play a role, a very old form of communication can allow people to escape from this control ”, Porumboiu explains about the choice of localization and language as excuses for his film.
Romanian director (12:08 East of Bucharest) He discovered the rubber whistle a decade ago, while on vacation in San Juan de Luz with his wife, the Basque artist Arantxa Etcheverria. And he became obsessed with this language created by the Canarian aborigines in the 16th century. “I had just finished my movie Police, adjective about language and how it is used for political purposes. Whistled language seemed like a possibility to continue with this topic but in a different way ”, he continues.
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