as beastsa rural thriller by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, swept the 37th edition of the Goya Awards in cinema Spanish, who also recognized Argentina, 1985 as best Ibero-American film.
In a ceremony marked by the death on the eve of film director Carlos Saura, Sorogoyen’s film, which talks about xenophobia and violence and is inspired by events that occurred in 2010 in a Galician village, won nine awards, including best film and address.
Its actors, the Frenchman Denis Menochet and Luis Zahera, also won the Goyas for best leading and supporting actor, respectively, according to international media. Meanwhile, the French actress Juliette Binoche received the international Goya.
During more than half a gala, held at the Andalusia Auditorium in Seville, model 77the prison “thriller” by Alberto Rodríguez, was on Sorogoyen’s heels, but finally stopped in five technical categories, reports the agency EFE.
five little wolvesthe chronicle of motherhood without artifice by Alauda Ruiz de Azúa, was confirmed as the big surprise of the year with the awards for best new director, best leading actress, for Laia Costa and best supporting actress, Susi Sánchez.
Instead, alcarrásby Carla Simón, who had eleven nominations and was endorsed by the Belinale Golden Bear, was the big loser in one of the most competitive editions in living memory, full of demands, from the defense of public health, to the Solidarity with women in Iran.
The Goya winner for Best New Actor, Telmo Irureta, who suffered from cerebral palsy and who advocated “for a more inclusive cinema”, and Laura Galán, Best New Actress for little pigwho dedicated it to those who suffer harassment, like his character, because of his physique, according to the office of the Spanish agency.
As to Argentina, 1985a film by Santiago Miter starring Ricardo Darín, added a new award to his record with his Goya for Best Ibero-American Film and continues his career towards the Oscars, where he is nominated for Best Foreign Film.
On behalf of the team, the producers collected the award. “We saw how such an Argentine story, seen by different audiences, who go through such particular situations and are so different at the same time and so similar, because those same wounds unite us all, the only way to fight against that is with justice said Santiago Carabante.
“I want to thank Leo Messi”, joked, for his part, Federico Posternak, who together with Agustina Llambí was part of the group that has taken the stage, refers EFE.
Saura and Juliette Binoche
The death on Friday, at the age of 91, of Carlos Saura, Goya de Honor 2023, led to a start full of emotion, with the presence on stage of his partner of the last 30 years, the actress Eulalia Ramón, and two of the sons of the director, Antonio and Anna Saura. The person in charge of putting it in his hands was Carmen Maura, star of Ay Carmela!.
According to a message read at the gala, in his last words Saura said he felt “happy” to have given inspiration to the “brilliant” current generation of filmmakers and claimed to see himself tonight “like a wandering star in the immensity of the cosmos.”
“Imagination is faster than the speed of light,” he wrote. He also said he felt lucky to have made more than 50 films and to have had seven children, several grandchildren and a great-granddaughter, going beyond the dreams he had as a young man.
Antonio Saura recalled the importance of the four women in Saura’s life: his mother, Adela Medrano; the actress Gerladine Chaplin, who accompanied him in his “most authorial” stage of his life; Mercedes Pérez and Eulalia Ramón “who has helped her on her journey towards minimalism and overcoming fears”.
Even Juliette Binoche, the other great honoree of the night, upon receiving the International Goya, surrendered to the maestro Saura humming “Porque te vas” by Jeanette, a nod to the soundtrack of “Cría cuervos”, a film she saw as a child which, he said, marked him deeply.
EFE / OnCuba
