Rodrigo Sorogoyen, the great nightingale of Spanish cinema

In just a few years, from being an unknown in the industry, most admired director, filmmaker and screenwriter within and outside our borders. He’s a master at stretching the rope, starting stories over, with wild sequence shots…” He assured her in the last few interviews.

lightning stardom

In his meteoric career, Congratulations to the public and critics. His fifth film “El reino” (2018), a “thriller” about political corruption in Spain, won seven Goya awards, two for directing and screenplay, but won three Biznagas in Malaga, the second from “Stockholm”. . Fourth, she was on the brink of Oscar with her short film ‘Mother’ which she filmed in 2019 and now ‘As bestas’, ‘west’ from the depths of Galicia inspired by a real crime, 17 prefer the ‘bighead’.

Classy presentation at Cannes, three awards at the Tokyo festival, the public award at San Sebastián and global applause in France before it hit the Spanish screens last November… Oh, and a jury at the final Mostra. It’s like not believing.

Inside Goya premiere on February 11 together with director Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (Barakaldo, 1978). Of course, the two coincided at the same time while they were studying at school. Madrid School of Cinematography and Audiovisual (ECAM), although neither remember. Since 2004, the producer’s first scripts for series such as ‘Odd’, ‘La pecera de Eva’ or ‘Frágiles’ have appeared.

He met his best friends and traveling companions at school. He founded the production company with the three of them. Horse MoviesHe has been in charge of all his titles since 2010. And right there, they started working together, not as a couple. isabel pick (Zaragoza, 1983). It happened with ‘odd’.

with the same tattoo

The two have been flying solo since ‘Stockholm’ (2013). Over ten years of unshakable friendship, Half-written texts and thousands of hours of daydreaming stories. They usually talk for months before dividing the script: He takes care of the big picture, he takes care of the details. In case of ‘as bestas’, Peña was the one who read the crime story in a newspaper. and the person who offered to make the movie. This first scenario is from 2015but other (big) stories have stepped in and have been rewriting and polishing it all this time.

Proud of the result and the work they do together, they both have the same tattoo (in a place not yet disclosed). “Is he number twelvein his words, because they are the movies we will make together…at least!”, the director admitted on the radio. There are already six of them. civil war series Sorogoyen has been around for a long time since Movistar Plus+ announced it’s parked for now, but this is something very different from ‘As bestas’. “We really want to write other kinds of stories, talk about relationships, about smaller things where the plot isn’t that important,” Peña explained.

An actor father and a director grandfather

Unknown if it will appear in the next script Paco Revilla, the ‘amateur’ actor with Sorogoyen already starring in ‘El reino’ and ‘Riot gear’. Some kind of corrupt ex-cop with the same ‘look’ as a celebrity villarejo. It’s really about Rodrigo Sorogoyen, bearing the same name as his only son. In an interview with ‘Fotogramas’, he said that he retired in Alicante at the age of 78, lived a quiet life, did theater at the university and took care of himself since his son’s first short film.

Director Sorogoyen doesn’t like to show off. artistic rootsbut its mother who is a photographersame time daughter of filmmaker Antonio del Amoremembered as the director of Joselito’s films in the ’50s, such as “Little Nightingale”.

Ruy for friends

The director’s closest circle calls him dream it may have to do with it Francoism’s ‘blockbuster’ It was signed by a grandfather whom he had not met until he was 8 years old. “There was no cinematic atmosphere in the house. Yes, they took me to the movies to see a movie, but they didn’t talk about work. So I didn’t comment much, but I’m not ashamed. Or deny it,” he explained in SER. “I treated him for three months when he came to live with my mother and me. And worse, he was run over by a bus,” she told me.

The producer brags, “I’m not a sociologist, but a salon psychologist” because nails the characters of your characters. its tone sometimes cocky and cutter, some critics say about him, emphasizing that he became even more nervous when asked by a journalist. María Guerra replied on her podcast ‘La Script’ that she “doesn’t answer stupid questions badly”. Sometimes his cinema is also accused of committing sins. specific machirulidadSomething corrected by ‘As bestas’, the story of violent men in which a reconciling femininity emerges.

‘Sexual attraction’

He also does not make any commitments about his many and many relationships. They say in the world, “No one runs away from him, he is a womanizer”.

Even though Murcili is the only girlfriend he walks with on the red carpet. granddaughter of marthaThe protagonist and muse of ‘Mother’ announced as “the scoop” almost two years ago that “they are just friends” in Buenafuente’s movie ‘Late Motiv’.

“dir-dir the fracture that affected him the most”then count the other relationships attributed to it, like this one Vicky Luengo (with whom he collaborated on “La pecera de Eva” and “Antidisturbios”); Maria Hervas (also from ‘La pecera de Eva’) or the stranger seen kissing at the last festival in San Sebastián didn’t even deserve a headline.

Surely you will reap a lot after these. goyawhich area I sing to the stories of women and empty Spain. Sorogoyen’s #1 movie at the box office this Christmas was nominated in almost every category. But the nightingale of Spanish cinema says, “It’s not the nominations that matter, I don’t care if people go to the movies and see ‘As bestas’ or ‘Alcarràs’.”