Four chapters by David Trueba and Jordi Ferrerons –produced by Lavinia–dedicated to the queen Sofia. ‘Sofia and Real Life‘ is an attempt at a documentary approach to the Queen of Spain, whose career, character, and life have always been shrouded in inexplicable, indisputable mystery.
Sofia has become a queen with a fuzzy figure. In addition to an important archival videographic section, this television work is structured on the basis of a ‘corpus’ of views that often come together in a common portrait: no one really knows him, his only friends. Sofia they are her sister Irene and his cousin Tatiana, There is hardly any footage of him walking or eating at a restaurant in Madrid, and he also has trouble speaking Spanish as his lifelong language is English. Ah! This existential distance is well conveyed in this documentary, pointing to the reasons that explain it. From the start, a marriage of resources or convenience juan carlos, when he’s the one he wants Harold The Norwegian And then that final blow was when he left with his children in January 1976 “to surprise his father”, supposedly hunting in Montes de Toledo. “And when he walks into a room on the farm, he finds him fucking with a lady!” account is excited Jaime Penafiel.
AND urban column He ends the chronology of that day by telling what he said. Sofia mother, queen Federica: “Her husband would never cheat on a Queen, and if he cheated on her, the Queen would not find out.” So, swallow, wait and pretend you don’t have horns you’re wearing. Ah! This theater, which lasted about 50 years, thus began. The fact of a cheated, cheated, mocked and cuckolded spouse evokes a mixture of pity, respect and compassion. But some opinion leaders, with good cause, warned that it is more difficult to understand her silent role, from which she also benefits greatly in the face of her husband’s economic anger. Scroll through this documentary impression Sofia swallowed for his only passion: his son Philip. see abdication juan carlosand having Felipe as king might have been the greatest revenge of his life, but also his satisfaction.
It was also poignant to see the journalists being a part of the media flirtation. juan carlos And Sofia, now it tells us what they have neglected for years.