‘Forever Daniela’: Nacho Vigalondo returns to the cinema with a love dystopia

“So you’re saying I’m repeating myself?” says Vigalondo. A little, but I meant it as a compliment: the aforementioned consistency. “In reality, when you make a film, you don’t or shouldn’t be aware of which part of the conversation you’re practicing in a collaborative work,” he replies. “The tools of analysis should not be associated with the tools of creation. I think films should at best start with a sense of freedom and fly where they need to fly.”

Love and science fiction

From a distance ‘Daniela forever’ looks like her contribution romantic drama subgenre science fictionIt’s always a fascinating plot, with some notable examples lately, especially in the context of television: let’s remember the great episodes. ‘black mirror’ Like ‘I’ll be right back’ and ‘San Junipero’. There are some of these, but in reality Vigalondo wanted to mark the distances with the most famous examples of the tradition in question. “When I watch movies that blend romance and science fiction, they are usually very cute, very sweet and helpful to their characters. And I always like to go in a darker direction. The romantic science fiction genre is just packaging, cellophane.”

In this dystopia that is more about the intricacies of romantic love than fantasy, Henry Golding (“Crazy Rich Asians”) is a “dj” and producer who is offered the opportunity to participate in a clinical trial that, in principle, would allow him to get over the death of his girlfriend, but which he uses to maintain his relationship with his girlfriend. dead person in dreams. She’s the Daniela of the title, Beatrice GrannoThe emergence of the second season of ‘White Lotus’ (worldwide; it was already popular in its native Italy). He was attracted to the project because “it talked about serious, deep topics like grief, but it wasn’t flashy or fancy; on the contrary, it did it without taking itself seriously.” According to Grannò, this causes “everything to become stronger than it would have been in a more dramatic film” only when certain emotional punches hit.

The Italian actor knew Vigalondo’s taste for changing styles or playing with expectations: he had watched and liked ‘Colossal’ before becoming interested in this new project. “I like how it changes color every moment. At first glance it looks like a drama about a woman [Anne Hathaway] He had alcohol problems but then he got crazy and then it turned into a comedy and you laughed a lot but it also contained the truth. I think the same thing will happen in this new movie: Sometimes it seems like the most intellectual ‘independent’ movie, but suddenly it turns into a comedy and then it breaks your heart.“.

Yurena’s drama is coming

It’s been eight years since the aforementioned ‘Giant’. At a certain point in this journey, Vigalondo began to assume that his career as a filmmaker was over. “I didn’t make a press release or anything, but I assumed it was a departure from the traditional cinema world. ‘Cause all the job offers they got were great [el late night] ‘The Roaring Twenties’ or television production [‘El vecino’, ‘Justo antes de Cristo’, ‘Nuestra bandera significa muerte’, etcétera] without being creatively involved. Instead of rebelling against my arrogance of being a writer, I calmly accepted it. In fact, ‘Daniela Forever’ had already been written when ‘Colossal’ was released. It’s a fairy tale that this has been done“.

The next thing will be a series again, but one in which his involvement is “very deep”: expected Netflix’s ‘Superestar’ is a tour de force of the beginnings of the unforgettable Yurena (formerly Tamara) with the production javis. “For me, this is another one of my films. It’s as much or more personal than any of them.” According to reports, a small part of the visual effects and sound are currently being completed and will finally be visible in 2025. “And wait.”