The movie Living is easy with eyes closed has been chosen to choose the part of Spain, in the category of best foreign language film at the 87 edition of the Academy Awards. The film, which was the big winner of the last edition of the Goya, tells the story of Antonio (Javier Cámara), a professor who teaches English to students using the songs of the Beatles and, in 1966, decided travel to Almería to meet John Lennon , as it is currently filming a movie in the Andalusian province.
This morning, after the announcement of the selected movie and a brief press conference Javier Camera and producer Cristina Huete, the actor has given an interview to 20minutes to discuss their impressions on this new stage of the film.
There were many opportunities that this was the chosen film. Surely he expected it. Well do not believe. I had many doubts, because the other two candidates have been doing a great campaign. The child is succeeding at the box office and now is a big, crowded behind movies. And with 10,000 km have made a beautiful film, shot in English, actors defend very well …
But after the success of the Goya …
Yes, but was said to have spent much of that and there are plenty of movies that have come after. But it is true that the Academy has supported the movie most voted in the awards, so the support was there. There will be people in favor of the election, against, as always, but hopefully now us put everyone in the same direction.
Going to Hollywood, what’s Living is easy that can win over academics?
frankly I think the characters. The American has an idealist, a dreamer. They are fascinated by gigantic heroes that change the lives of entire cities and countries and save the planet, but also love the unsung heroes, the humble characters who go through life with their little heroics. His films are full of those details of idealism that Living is easy with eyes closed also.
The American has an idealistic, dreamer, who could be seen in ‘Living is easy …’ So does see possibilities.
Sure, why not? Ours is a beautiful, luminous film, with a direct clear message … And the music that not only teaches you how to learn languages but it teaches you to live and be a better person. I think the scenes at the beginning, with children learning English, they will do much grace. And the setting, and stroller crossing the desert of Almeria …
has already been released in some countries, so you can get an idea of how the reception.
Yes, we have seen in Canada and have been several times in Miami with the film. We have lived very close to the audience and the reception has been as good as here. One is afraid when suddenly does something very like here, but really universal things always happen everywhere regardless of context counted. It seems they are only ours, but when we discovered that cross borders film reaches around the world without problem. In fact, we have reached a point in which the Spanish film earns more outside than inside the country. We are reaching other audiences.
What do you think is the biggest obstacle facing the film to spend the next screen
The only difficulty I see that is no small thing, it will surely be a tremendous quality in a lot of films competing for the Oscar for best foreign language film. This election was only the first step of many others. Now it’s time to get down to work with a very long and complicated process in the USA. The machinery that moves around there this is brutal.
Jobs fantasize, imagine that the movie is elected and ends up winning the Oscar, to whom he would dedicate the win? Al
Spanish cinema. People who against all odds is making films in Spain, all the people who want to tell stories.
I understand that now the situation is complicated.
Yes. It is increasingly difficult to make films, so when you get into a project you see that people are excited just to be able to pull it off, most of the time with very low budget. And yet, the movies are getting riskier day, every day contact with the audience, reaching more eager, more eager to tell … That there are a lot of idealism.
‘ll settle for these three minutes are having between Gallardón and Artur Mas
Do you remember any Spanish film that is left in the race for Oscar unfairly?
Many, many, even movies that have never been nominated. America deserves to see much Spanish cinema, not just today but from above. There muchísmo cinephile who knows what is done in Spain. At the Golden Globes, for example, you’re faced with a lot of people who know the Spanish film perfectly.
Back to the question, every year you come across quite a few films that deserve to be rewarded, both large and small that come along by word of mouth or by other means and, fortunately, today there are increasingly many ways to watch movies. They are generating various industries within this archipelago of problems: there is no law of patronage, no aid to the protection of intellectual property, there is a good law against piracy …
Do you think that in about a year, with several elections ahead, changes that will impact positively on film
I’ll settle for three minutes between Gallardón are taking will occur and Mas. Yesterday’s resignation of one tomorrow or messing with the other, and today three minutes to read the film that aspires to go to the Oscars. I need only that, we have more time, there is no room for culture. First is what happened yesterday, which is very strong, and then there’s all that will happen tomorrow, that is. And in this maelstrom you have three little minutes in which you can return to this idealistic Quijotito become your dream stroller that can still go to the Oscars.
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