The clapperboard is back on and off in Mallorca, but not now with a Hollywood blockbuster like the series Female lion, but with “a near-to-day film with a normal character, a recognizable mood that the audience can feel to identify with”. This is how the main character, Martín, is described by popular actor Rodolfo Sancho, who gave him life in a movie. A walk along Borne. They complete the deal Natalia Verbeke, ruth gabriel and “other lesser known but highly talented actors like Mallorcan Luis Oliver And Toni Luis Reyes“, emphasizing the producer from the island too nick igea add that it’s about your first movie an image of the characters of ordinary people living in a Mallorca without idyllic places and the sun and the beach”.
What attracts Sancho the most about it “local and universal history” transforming your role. “I normally make characters that travel from light to dark, and recently I’ve died too. What I find so beautiful about Martín is, He is a man who is initially depressed, very frustrated, and gradually sees the light of day as he is forced to give film lessons to some children.. This group of children’s illusions of making a short film takes them out of their situation and ends up with a happy ending, something we rarely see in cinema today,” he sums up.
After shooting these days CEF School of Audiovisual Artsyesterday, they departed to Marine Station 2 of the port of Palma. Other locations Parc de la Marsquare Llotjaport Sollerneighborhood they are claderaA bar near CEF, inside son of cottonAnd born promenade, Certainly. “It is an important place for the hero because he feels good there.It’s a very special place, with a little magic, where he goes when he needs to breathe. For me, too, it’s where my grandparents meet”, in the words of the director.
“What would happen if I didn’t fulfill my dream of making a movie and it ended the way Martín started?” . It’s been 20 years since Igea wanted to make her feature film debut, but “as one director put it, you never have to blame external circumstances, maybe then it wasn’t the time. I guess now, emotionally or whatever. And maturity helps to face that.”
In the Son Cladera, Marina, Raúl and Carmen. Ruth Gabriel puts herself in the latter’s shoes, “cleaner, kellybut it could be any woman who works for days and makes a living, and if she comes, she’s very hastily.”. He fell in love with her as soon as he read the script because Filled with light, always looking for a way to have funthat everything is worth it and that life has meaning. He enrolls in Martín’s classes because he loves movies,” he says, for a character who reflects the opposite of the stagnation that problems and responsibilities sometimes cause.
This “transcendence movie” is also a tribute to the cinema.As Sancho points out, his industry in Spain is in a good moment. “There has been a revival for years”, although not as a result of the arrival of platforms, shows. “They’re here not by magic, but because they’ve watched TV shows we’ve done before. and they say: «How well these people make films. How much are they doing? I am sad? That’s what the player costs me. These components are what allow platforms to be built here,” concludes the protagonist.