big sonya He just finished his sixth movie with Woody Allen but he has also worked alongside Pedro Almodóvar in four productions and several productions alongside Alejandro Amenábar, alongside other directors such as: González Iñárritu, James Gray, Asghar Farhadi, Nancy Meyers and Roland Jofeé. Next June 10 will receive the award Fashion Cinema at the close Alicante Film Festivala new award where the film costume designers of the competition wanted to reward their work and premiered with this natural Asturian (Oviedo, 1964) Working in Alicante for years.
A Grande has been nominated twelve times and winner of two Goya awards (with daughter of your eyes related to Fernando Truebain 1999 and As long as the war continues, related to Alejandro Amenabarin 2020) and Gold Medal of Merit in Fine Arts In 2016, it does hallucination Get this award in Alicante.
“I loved it because I am Asturian but Alicante by adoption. I live in the garden of Alicante, I have a house between La Marina and Rojales. I travel for business but I have centered my life in Alicante, in this area that we love and feel very good about.”draws attention to the winner who sees and believes “an honor” to initiate this recognition “very interesting” For a film festival to care about this discipline.
“The time has come for costume design to be considered a very serious narrative.The professional, who works to add information and emotion to the film and says that this part must be taken seriously in cinema, believes the following: a bad wardrobe can ruin a movie: “I’ve never seen a good director admit that his wardrobe is bad. Before an actor utters a word, the costumes already tell you who the character is. and it has to be done very well. Cinema is made with the image and the wardrobe is integrated, and if it’s done poorly, the movie is absolutely lame,” he confirms.
Coming from an artist family, he grew up painting at home and drawing since childhood. “Painting helped me a lot in my profession. I read it myself. Bomarzorelated to Mujica LainezWhen I was 13-14 I started painting characters and decorating them with fabrics, making collages and really I started making my first figurines unknowingly”says Grande, who studies Dramatic Art and is “lucky” to work with her. miguel narrosthen director and designer of the Spanish Theatre, Andrea D’odoricoand he found what he was looking for. “I spent about 10 years in the theater, I spent time with them, because There was no school, and there is still no school.. This does not happen in the UK, Italy or the United States; here are the courses or the little thingsbut you still can’t be a costume designer in Film School”, explains the future-proof professional City of Light“If studios are opened, it will be very important to establish a studio. training center to educate people and that we have schools comparable to any place in the world”.
He jumped from theater to cinema and immediately nominated goya with matchmaker (nineteen ninety six), Nearly fifty movies followed it.. “Even though I love theatre, I was already in the cinema and I was lucky to have a very good education in period design. It is very nice to go through the theater, it is a necessary school”.
working with directors
worked with many different directors where is perfect Woody AllenHe made his sixth film in Paris (Lucky Cup) after the meeting Vicky Cristina Barcelona and then continue Midnight in Paris, To Rome with love, Magic in the moonlight And Rifkin’s Festival.
“The people you work with are always decisive, getting you to a place that makes you better. The better the director, the greater the personal leap. I wouldn’t be the same if I didn’t work with Woody Allenthe movie I made the most movies; or with Almodóvarimage genius and esthetician; or Alejandro Amenabar, he’s a great director and he’s great at directing; Iñárritu, Roland Jofeé or Asghar Farhadi or James Gray… I was just so lucky”.
Grande denies her fame curmudgeon Allen said, “Wow! this is so hard to produce. Platforms have come in meteorically, but sorry, this is television and you have to make a difference”.
Grande believes her job is to “offer, give lots of ideas of how you see it,” then the director decides, but good cinema is done as a team and it is important that you get along and have feeling with the director, otherwise it’s very difficult”. Repeatedly with many filmmakers, the designer admits to knowing himself. likes and weaknesses: “You know that you offered Almodóvar red and you won’t fail because it enchants him; or what Woody is afraid of (red, makeup) and loves elegant and simple clothes. He doesn’t like overly warm clothing because it covers the actors.”
He is influenced by ‘good movies’, old or contemporary: ‘I was very easy going back then, I find that nice. What I don’t like is naturalism. I love Almodóvar for not being like that, or Woody for recreating the society of the rich. “I love documentaries, but I don’t like making documentaries, I don’t like copying the truth, it doesn’t interest me at all,” he said. Favorite of the Oscars Babylonand although he is interested in Italian designers, he wants to work with a “young American director”. joe talbotrepeat with James Grey, and I would love to work together PolanskiLooks like another genius to me or Scorsese… A lot”.
“Pride” for Alicante festival
Director of the Alicante International Film Festival, vincent sevaconsiders it “enormous pride” to give this award to Sonia Grande “as a tribute to her brilliant career, undoubted dedication, and extraordinary talent in the world of film costumes”. Rosario Puñales, Coordinator of the Fashion Cinema department, “costumes and scene are essential elements of the cinematographic narrative, and as such, we believe it is necessary to give visibility to the work of these professionals”.
This section will also include: serial movie screening at conferences and meetings to be held with the public, which stand out with their costumes Alicante Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA).