Considering that Italian movies set in the West are known as spaghetti westerns, the term Amazon Prime Video coined isn’t all that strange. ‘no trace’, The new Spanish drama that premieres on Friday, March 17: ‘paella-west’. The fiction he created Sara Antuna and Carlos de Pando (Creators of hits like ‘El vecino’ and ‘¡García!’) Alicantea region characterized, in addition to its beaches, by arid areas that can pass into the Far West.
There they live their own special ordeal, not exempt from funny moments, two heroes, some of them ‘kelly’ (some cleaners he played Carolina Yuste and Camila Sodi) are those who find themselves in a mess when they come across a corpse in the mansion they were assigned to tidy up. Unwittingly, the duo left the crime scene clean, suspecting that they would be the prime suspect in the murder, they start to run away. But not only will the police chase them, but some will also chase them. russian hitmen and a millionaire family with very dirty laundry to wash.
“Taking into account where we set up ‘Sin huellas’ and the characteristics of Valencian politicians, we found that the western option is a very good code to read the series, because good little people against a very big threat“Our heroes, Desi and Cata, are also ordinary people in an extraordinary situation, oppressed by an overwhelming force and defending themselves with the resources they have,” explains Antuña.
Although the series has four directors (Paco Caballero, Gemma Ferraté, Samantha López Speranza and Koldo Serra) impregnated the editing with elements typical of Western cinema (visually and even in the soundtrack), the creators wanted to turn the genre upside down. Not only because the protagonists are two women, but also because they are two precarious workers.
A lesbian gypsy and a Mexican immigrant
one is one Gypsy Having problems with his mother (Yuste) (Pastora Vega) Because he Lesbian. another one Mexican immigrant (Sodi) with a cheeky husband (Leonardo Ortiz Gris). “All this made it more difficult for them to get out of the swamp,” admits De Pando. “Two perfect criminals because they’re women, poor, housekeepers, and have little capacity to defend themselves against an attack like the one they’ve just been attacked,” adds Antuña. Real estate “pelotazos” and mariachi music. And above all, where naturalness prevails.
“It doesn’t have to be two hot women running away, but real women who don’t have a masculine point of view,” Sodi emphasizes. “They weren’t made for male desire either,” Yuste points out. “What they want is not to tour Spain with two shotguns in a convertible, but to go home, get their feet wet, eat a piece of pizza and sleep, because all this bullshit ends, because they have to work the next day.” highlights Antuna.
Desperate escape through the landscapes of Alicante eight episodesà la “Thelma & Louise” leads to many funny situations where they encounter the characters they play. Silvia Alonso, Borja Luna, Álex Gadea, Adrian Grösser and Adriana Torrebejano. Thus, humor is mixed with ‘suspense’.
“For us, comedy is always a great means of telling something. And what’s more, in Spain, where it’s so easily a liberating act in the face of drama. You look for that complicity in the smile of the joke,” Del emphasizes. pando. “Even in the midst of war, it’s hard for me to believe fictions where no one is joking because they’re not real. No one lives in constant torture,” Antuña admits.