Filmmaker Isabel Coixet received this award. National Cinematography Award eight in 2020 goya And Palme d’Or at Cannes, this Wednesday, among many other accolades, adds Evolutionary Vision for his prolific career. What excites him most is the movie one LoveThe film is adapted from Sara Mesa’s novel. Palma Main Theater During the opening of the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF).
One of the few changes in the film is Nat’s background as a refugee translator. Did you think the topic would become this current?
I included it because I thought it added another dimension to the character, it was a good job for Nat and she stands out even more with what we’re seeing now. I learned about the work of the refugee mediation office and was very impressed. The job of a translator is very delicate because words acquire a triple value. Telling a testimony one way or another can change your destiny, whether you are accepted or not.
Do the male characters represent different types of people? sexism?
Yes, they show varying degrees of gender toxicity. They start with everyday things, such as the landlady asking her if she is afraid, only to indicate that she must be afraid, when Píter tells her what to plant, the questions about whether she will live or not are only there… All Women is a story about everyday matters, in most cases without reaching the extremes of the novel and the film. They experienced some kind of sexist toxicity. All except the Vox ladies, because no one attacked them or questioned them…
These are microaggressions.
Yes, but they ruin your life because there comes a point when you want to explode. My 90-year-old mother, who watched the movie the other day, told me: These neighbors are like the ones on my stairs.
The good-looking person says, “It’s not good for them to see you with us.” Is what he said in the towns still valid?
Yes, I know this because I live most of the year in a country with a population of 800. Everyone is there and knows everything; So if someone gets involved with someone else, the town finds out almost before the person in question does. This is great. Dynamics, microaggressions, every situation in small places also happens in cities, but everything is more visible in towns.
The host tells various facts that demystify the countryside. Why do we see it so idyllic?
There is a tendency to think that we will survive and be better in rural areas, especially after the pandemic. But if you’re good, you’re good anywhere, and if you’re ruined, you take your troubles to the countryside, to the town, wherever.
Sara Mesa jokes that the hero is a very hated character. Doesn’t your action seem like a hopeless decision?
He jokes about it even though some people don’t. The poor thing does his best, and the Martianade suggested at that particular moment doesn’t seem like such a bad idea. Okay, he might be wrong, but we don’t know what we would do in his shoes. We like to judge characters in movies and novels and real people as if we were above them, and sometimes it’s because we refuse to recognize ourselves in the things we don’t like.
The problem of housing prices in Mallorca will attract attention.
In many places. When they tell me Nat has moved away it’s because they don’t know what the situation is. It’s also a movie about insecurity. He lives in a crappy house for which he pays 250 euros a month surreptitiously, without a contract, but that’s all he can afford. There are fewer options for spending in the countryside, but you are surprised to see how much food costs at the supermarket or town grocery store because there is no competition there. Let’s not talk about the precariousness of translation and many other jobs.
What do you think makes him fall in love or become obsessed?
It’s like you want to complete a deficiency, fill a gap, but when you start a relationship thinking about this, things go wrong.
It translates the following sentence: “Beauty seduces the body in order to gain permission to pass into the soul.” Didn’t he manage to touch the hero’s soul?
I don’t know if Andreas has a soul. In this case it is top secret. It’s a quote I read from Simone Weil many years ago and am passionate about it. I think Andreas is at least very clear about what he wants. But she gives little information and the messages are vague, so he interprets her behavior, magnifies it, and obsessively over-interprets it. Unlike Nat, he is a man who is very happy to be. foreign and I go through everything. He doesn’t care about acceptance. His problem is that even though he’s someone else foreignDeep down he wants to be accepted and this makes him vulnerable.
Obsession
Why do we become obsessed with people we know won’t bring us anything good?
I wish I had the answer, but I don’t know. It happens so many times and we see it in our friends, in ourselves… And we say no, no, no. But if. What destroys us is expectations and hope, a terrible combination. Although people rarely change, women especially believe that we can change a person.
Would you say that Sara Mesa’s novels and films have a certain similarity?
There might be a connection, I don’t know either. Yes, I sure love his novels, and I always find things that speak of myself and my life in his novels.
What does this Evolution recognition mean to you?
Essentially, I think the chances of the film being shown at a place like Theater Manager are great. As for the award itself, if a group of movie people think I deserve it, they’re welcome.