Spanish director Carla Simon Presented this Thursday in New York Film Festival your movie the carrasone of the phenomena of the year in Spanish cinema, which he described in the subsequent symposium as an image of “a world that is disappearing”.
Simon he won Berlin Golden Berg With this film of a family of peasants who are dedicated to fruit picking in Lleida (Northeast Spain) but are threatened by modernity in the form of a solar panel farm that needs to occupy the lands of their fruit trees.
The director, who was very comfortable on the stage of Lincoln Center in New York, explained to the audience that filled the room and gave a long round of applause for the film, that the carras It’s like the ‘Catalan Far West’, a place away from tourism where its residents are not used to seeing foreigners and even filmmakers.
for Simonhis film describesA lifestyle that is no longer sustainable‘, the peasant families who live next to their land and who pass this trade on from generation to generation, and though she initially thought of a ‘happy ending’, she realized that if she wanted to be honest she had to tell the story. The truth of how more and more people are leaving Families that trade.
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The decisive moment in which he realized that these peasants were naive was when he attended a demonstration of low fruit prices and the organizers were satisfied with the success of their call, when the reality was that they barely numbered a thousand people.
At the subsequent seminar, the director of the festival and the audience were particularly interested in the film’s shooting and how he managed to imprint a semi-documentary tone on a peasant film, being alien to this world.
He then explained that he spent two seasons living in rural towns in that area, visiting fruit co-ops and public schools, and attending folk festivals, while interviewing a total of 9,000 people at a very long selection until he found the film’s ten protagonists.
For her, it was very important that the elect were from the world of peasants to convey the connection to the land, and that they spoke the region’s own Catalan dialect to give health to the characters.
The film will begin its commercial journey in January
Although he was toying with the idea of making a real family together to perform, he understood that “Genetics and cinema don’t go well‘, so he chose his characters and made them live together for three months ‘so they looked like family’ to the point of ‘sharing common memories’.
Simon said that the people of that area “Very underrepresentedIn general, always absent from the news and even from fiction, she had to overcome her ‘lack of confidence’, although when they saw footage from the film they felt that she was talking about them.
The film will go on commercial release in the United States in January, as well as in the United Kingdom and France, perhaps the top three international markets for a film that has already been seen by 380,000 people in Spain, according to data from your. Producer.
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