Seville (Spain), 11 Feb. “As bestas”, a rural “thriller” by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, today won the 37th edition of the Goya Awards for Spanish Cinema, in a ceremony marked by the death on the eve of director Carlos Saura, and during which he was awarded as best Ibero-American film at “Argentina, 1985”.
French actress Juliette Binoche received the international Goya during this gala during which Sorogoyen’s film, which speaks of xenophobia and violence and is inspired by events that occurred in 2010 in a Galician village (north-west of the Spain), won nine awards, including Best Film and Best Direction. .
Its actors, Frenchmen Denis Menochet and Luis Zahera, also won the Goyas for Best Lead Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively.
For more than half a gala, held at the Andalucía Auditorium in Seville (southern Spain), “Modelo 77”, the prison “thriller” by Alberto Rodríguez, hounded Sorogoyen, but finally stopped in five technical categories.
“Cinco lobitos”, the chronicle of Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s unadorned motherhood, was confirmed as the big surprise of the year with awards for Best New Director, Best Leading Actress, for Laia Costa and the Best Supporting Actress, Susi Sánchez.
“Alcarrás” by Carla Simón, which had eleven nominations and was approved by the Golden Bear Belinale, was the big loser of one of the most competitive editions in living memory, full of demands, from public health advocacy to solidarity with women in Iran.
Goya winner for best new actor, Telmo Irureta, who suffered from cerebral palsy and who pleaded “for a more inclusive cinema” and Laura Galán, best new actress for “Cerdita”, who dedicated it to those who suffer, also raised their voices. .harassment, like his character, because of his physique.
IBEROAMERICAN GOYA
“Argentina, 1985”, directed by Santiago Mitre, won the Goya for best Ibero-American film.
With Ricardo Darín, the multi-award-winning film about the trial against General Videla and the rest of the leaders of the last Argentine dictatorship (1976-1983) adds a new award to its list of winners and continues its career towards the Oscars, where it is nominated for Best Foreign Language Film.
On behalf of the team, the producers received the award. “We have seen how such an Argentine story, seen by different audiences, who go through such particular situations and are at the same time so different and so similar, because these same wounds unite us all, the only way to fight against this is with justice,” said Santiago Carabante.
“I want to thank Leo Messi,” joked Federico Posternak, who together with Agustina Llambí was part of the group that took the stage.
SAURA AND JULIETTE BINOCHE
The death on Friday, at the age of 91, of Carlos Saura, Goya de Honor 2023, led to an emotional start, with the presence on stage of his companion of the past 30 years, actress Eulalia Ramón, and of two of the director’s sons, Antonio and Anna Saura. The person in charge of putting it in their hands was Carmen Maura, star of “Ay Carmela!”.
According to a message read at the gala, in his last words, Saura said he was “happy” to have given inspiration to the current “brilliant” generation of filmmakers and said he saw himself tonight “like a wandering star. in the vastness of the cosmos.”
“Imagination is faster than the speed of light,” he writes. He also said he felt lucky to have made more than 50 films and to have had seven children, several grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, going beyond the dreams he had as a what a young man.
Antonio Saura recalled the importance of the four women in Saura’s life: his mother, Adela Medrano; the actress Gerladine Chaplin, who accompanied him in the “most auctorial” stage of his life; Mercedes Pérez and Eulalia Ramón “who helped him on his journey towards minimalism and overcoming his fears”.
Even Juliette Binoche, the other great winner of the evening, receiving the International Goya, went to Maestro Saura humming “Parce que tu y vas” by Jeanette, a nod to the soundtrack of ” Cría cuervos”, a film she saw as a child which, he says, marked him deeply. EFE
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