ALMERÍA, 23 Nov. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The actress Tamara Casellas presented this Tuesday in the ‘Opera prima’ section of the Almería International Film Festival (Fical) the film ‘Ama’, directed by Júlia de Paz Solvas; a fiction that tries to break with the concept of “mother courage” and in which the criticism of a mythologized motherhood is present throughout the film through the interpretation of its protagonist.
“Before mother, father, brother or whatever, we are people, and that mother and daughter relationship has to be created,” explained the actress at a press conference, who received the Biznaga de Silver for her portrayal of Pepa in the film, which was also awarded the Feroz Puerta Oscura Award.
The film tells the story of Pepa and her daughter Leila, who are thrown out of their home and dragged to find a place to live in Benidorm where they cannot find anyone to help them on their way.
Casellas has assured that although ‘Techo y comida’, by Juan Manuel del Castillo, is a “reference” for ‘Ama’, this time the story is told “from another side” and offers a character to whom “you are going to hate and then you will understand “or, if not,” you will end up leaving with her because you are not going to see her as a mother, but as a person. “
The actress has highlighted the harshness of a character who came from a short film and who has accompanied her for about four years, so once the production was finished it was difficult for her to “get it off her feet”. “We did interviews with social workers, we looked for a person who has lived this experience. In the case of Pepa we did not find her, because the women were afraid,” said the protagonist.
Thus, he explained that the vision provided by a young man who had been abandoned by his parents at the age of seven allowed them to obtain a vision with which to take the character to their land and prepare it a lot through improvisations when filming in a format similar to the documentary, so it had to “go through it in the most organic way” possible.
The result was a fiction that, despite being paralyzed for months due to the pandemic – it began filming two weeks before the confinement was declared in March 2020 – has achieved a great response by the public and the public. review. “We were very afraid that the character would fall ill,” said the Sevillian actress before the premiere that took place last summer.
With an “open script” that “it is necessary for the viewer to finish”, the film raises the “controversial” situation but in which many women can be seen, with ramifications in their criticism towards the field of personal and work conciliation and tourism of masses. Now, choose to get one of the awards that the Almeria festival grants to new directors in its main competitive section.
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