in the world cinema is is habit given to team members when a shoot is about to end movie commemorative t-shirt: in the state you manage Director of Pego Sergi MirallesThe following sentence can be read in large white letters on the back of the garment: “We are all strangers”.
And that’s what this movie is about: L’àvia and the stranger. The plot intersects in a single plot sequence the story of three people who at some point in their existence felt strange, alienin a world that does not belong to him: Tailor from any town at the marina that he had to leave France in the sixties to earn a living; HE Pakistani greengrocer arriving in a village they called it “Moor”; HE youth from any city from the same Alicante region immigrate to England already in this challenging 21st century to win the future.
Sensitive, ironic, but also a little vulgarFeature film in which Miralles made his directorial debut after a long hiatusLong career as technician and shorts makershapes Everyday xenophobia: what doesn’t need offensive statements but in everyday life, it is distilled in the little things of every day.
The film produced by Aire de Cinema and Alhena Production Tells the story of Teresaa town tailorGet a special offer from Samir, a Pakistani greengrocer who is actually a tailor in his country. The two cooperate, but they have to do it. secretly for fear of what they might say in town. Suddenly Teresa dies and her grandson Enric, who lives in Manchester, returns to the city. in the midst of a life crisis. because he felt he’s a stranger in English town but now he looks strange in town too seeing her born
Thus, other universal aspirations are embedded in the film: nostalgia for their land or respecting the different. The proof of the latter Up to four languages coexist: Valencian, Spanish, English and Urdu. Languages spoken by Teresa, Samir and Enric, these three Immigrants at different times in the past, present and future After all, such a world we are all strangers.
feature film Starring the veteran actress of Alcoy Neus AgullóFounded in Barcelona by Indian candape metha and by charles francinoHe is known for appearing in serials such as Victor Ross, Central Hospital And love is eternal.
The screenplay, work by Miralles and executive producer Mila Luengo, It could have been designed in any town in the interior of the province of Alicante.. Drink a lot hitCertainly, Birthplace of the director whose family runs the oldest drive-in cinema in SpainIt is located on the very close beach of Dénia. Miralles He grew up between filming and sequencing from a very young age..
curiously The majority of filming, which began in mid-June and will end this week, took place in the Algar de Palància.less than fifty kilometers Valencia, where the technical team comes from. The Algar, with a population of less than 500, was these weeks on a big set, at a movie party: More than half of the town participated in the filming as figuration.