Manager: Alejandro Marin
artists: Omar Banana, Ana Wagener and Alba Flores
Premiere: 7/6/23
★★★
Alejandro Marín’s first solo feature film, director of the ‘Maricón Perdido’ (2021) series created by Bob Pop, full of commitment, anger, compassion, and a desire to celebrate life despite difficulties. Not a little. This is his great virtue, especially in these times. The phrase ‘I love you madly’ feels honest and alive. And although it is impossible to know this as a spectator, this vitality seems to be the product of the dedication and enthusiasm of all parties involved: from the necessary anger that the script conveys to humanity brought by the actors.
Marín’s film (who signed the script with Carmen Garrido) is about the birth of the LGTBIQ+ movement in Andalusia in 1977, with Reme, a widower who enters the movement with a passion for the church, at the center of the story. His teenage son (Omar Banana) is a gay boy who wants to be an artist. ‘I love you madly’ sometimes feels so self-explanatory, probably because of the need to say the same things strongly, clearly and angrily. And the aesthetic recreation of time is somewhat artificial (although there does not seem to be an obsession with rigidity in this sense). However, all of this is obscured by the group’s energy (a mix of anger, revenge, and celebration). Marín and Garrido’s ability to tell the tragic side of the story without sensationalism and the warmth of the charactersLovingly interpreted by Ana Wagener, Omar Banana, Alba Flores, La Dani or Alex De La Croix.