This was probably inevitable Rodrigo Sorogoyen He conceived his new work, ‘New Year’, during a New Year’s Eve celebration. “It was in 2015,” he recalled today. Venice Festival. “I was spending my vacation here Marrakech “I was with my partner at the time, thinking back to New Year’s Eve of the last 10 years, and suddenly I realized that I could understand what my life had been like during those 10 days, during those ten years.” The result of this revelation is this: ‘New Years’, the second series of his filmography to date – the first, ‘Rebel’, In this format, it is one of the most appreciated Spanish productions by critics and the public in recent times; its premiere To show This marks the third visit to the competition for the Madrid-based filmmaker, who presented his fifth feature film, ‘Mother’, in 2019 and will be on the official jury in 2022.
The first part, divided into two parts of five chapters each, offers us: Ana, played by Iria del Río, and Óscar, played by Francesco Carril, Two young people who have just entered their thirties meet on the last night of 2014; and each of the following episodes takes place just one year after the previous one, on the same day or the day after. “I decided that the series would cover a certain period in the characters’ lives because I think for most people, From the age of 30 to the age of 40 “Things happen to us that change our lives dramatically,” Sorogoyen says. “You accumulate heartbreaks, you start a family, you lose someone important in your life, that kind of thing.”
Something like a bold mix between them Ingmar Bergman’s ‘Secrets of a Marriage’ (1974) and Richard Linklater’s ‘Before…’ trilogy, ‘New Year’ is sometimes tender, sometimes painful, sometimes dizzying, it deals with many subjects, among them the damage we sometimes do to our loved ones, what it means to be a child and what it means to be a child; being a father, the need to erase the past and the impossibility of leaving it behind; and the empathy that emerges in the process has as much to do with Del Río and Carril’s wonderful acting work as it does with Sorogoyen’s talent as a narrator. “I felt very comfortable while filming,” admits the latter, who wrote the series. Paula Fabra and Sara Cano and got help behind the scenes Sandra Romero and David Martín de los Santos. “When I was in film school, I wanted to talk about these types of stories, and although circumstances have taken my career in another direction, I am still very interested in romantic drama,” he adds, referring to his successes thanks to film thrillers such as ‘God forgive us’ (2016) and ‘As Bestas’ (2022).
Producer Movistar+Although it is known that ‘New Year’ will hit cinemas before its television premiere, there is still no definite release date. “I must admit that when I was making the film, I had no idea that many people would watch it on very small screens,” explains the director. “It was actually conceived as a cinematographic work from the very beginning.”
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