Little by little and almost without a sound Christina Kampos The first film in the novel, which turned into a movie under the direction of Benito Zambrano, succeeded in gaining a place on the bestseller shelf thanks to the simple and effective book ‘Poppy Lemon Bread’. But the leap that took place this Saturday that placed her as a finalist on Planet with her novel ‘The Stories of Married Women’ was surprising. Campos is exuberant, and it takes great effort to measure his words before he gets carried away by the whirlwind of knowing he’s a winner. His obsession is with the emotional stories of women in their forties like him, who strike the uncertainties of their marital routine into a delicate balance with insatiable fantasies.
With a life devoted to the film industry, Campos has been an enviable person above all else. role director. At the same time, while heaping the screenplays that he could not produce in a drawer, he also dragged his desire to be a screenwriter. However, she has always been a devoted reader of her literary works, with her husband, filmmaker Jaume Balagueró, although their worlds are not further apart –“he with his zombies, me with his women”it says brilliant.
my best friends and me
The three women who fill the novel say they were created from parts of some of their best friends, whom she knows to trust unconditionally. They generously told him about their “most beautiful and heartbreaking experience.” But who else ultimately comes up with Campos himself: “I’m talking about female desire, and I stripped down psychically to write this novel.”
It is easy to imagine that at a given moment, the protagonist of the story will go into a crisis as he plunges into a crisis. unfaithfulness. “She’s been living as a good couple for 16 years, but a very interesting man gets in her way – because interesting men are still out there even if you’re married – and she starts deceiving herself into thinking there will be just one.. once, she can control the situation and it’s not.” Who dreams? very explicit love scenes It will be quite satisfying, as Campos promises. “I wanted to talk female sex directly, honestly, with a female gaze. And she says, for example, she might know if a sex scene in a movie was shot by a man or a woman: “I love the way Isabel Coixet does it, she just puts the camera where a woman would put it”.
those fears
He claims that he wrote this novel in his favor. the fears that every relationship contains, especially those who have lived together for years. And ultimately, he defends himself: “My protagonist bravely embarks on an adventure, I just did it in writing. My value remains in fiction”.