Two weeks ago, Carlos Saura’s latest film is documentary walls talk. It did not reach any of the provinces of Alicante. Considering that our province is the 4th province with the highest revenue in box office revenues after the pandemic in 2022, the data deserves to be emphasized.
The same thing happened with the documentary dedicated to Ennio Morricone last year, to quote another cult foreign filmmaker. It was not screened in any Alicante cinema either. To complete the information, quite a few provinces and cities that lag behind Alicante in terms of box office receipts, number of residents and number of theaters, such as Valladolid, Bilbao, San Sebastián, Pamplona, Vitoria, Málaga or Seville, to give some examples, these titles come . In fact, there are about a hundred films that are not screened in Alicante each year (not films, as Fernando Méndez-Leite rightly claimed at the Goya premiere).
I exempt showrooms that do enough to keep their businesses afloat in these times of crisis. As the cause of the disasters, I show the public institutions that left Alicante to its fate by losing their cinematic function. Indeed, it is an unusual case in the entire Spanish geography that is worth examining. There is no doubt that among the state’s two million residents we can always find clever fan groups (Cineclub Villena or Festival de l’Alfàs premiered the documentary about Ennio on its own). For the rest, the person who will be most grateful to the province is Santiago Segura.