‘homeland’
Address: Alvaro Gago Diaz
artists: María Vázquez, Soraya Luaces and Santi Prego
Year: 2017
Premiere: February 24, 2023
★★★
There is something very complex about what they do. Alvaro Gago (director and screenwriter) and Maria Vazquez (actress) In ‘Matria’: she gives overwhelming vitality to the female character named Ramona, who has so much against herself and should have exhausted her strength long ago. It paints a complex, crazy and contradictory human portrait of the protagonist, a woman from both different places, working in a cannery on the Galician coast (at the beginning of the film) while also facing instability, a lack of compassion. from your wife and the feeling that you are not doing well as a mother. But far from showing how these open fronts overpowered him or exploring the heroism of the resistance, the director and actor create a character who doesn’t adapt, complains, fights, seeks alternatives, and more importantly, gets angry because he’s outraged. reasons.
María Vázquez is tremendous That woman’s skin is always on the verge of bursting, The one whose anger sometimes conflicts with his decisions because he’s human, and who only lets his guard down when a stranger gives him a blanket to cover up (the first time someone has taken care of him and taken care of him in a long time). otherwise).