Saturday, May 16, 2015

Del Toro is Mambrú in film “A Perfect Day” – The Times

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The Puerto Rican actor Benicio del Toro, yesterday at the Cannes Film Festival (France). – AFP

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As a child, Benicio del Toro humming convinced “Mambrú war was” his unfortunate protagonist was a Puerto Rican soldier. Only much later, to shoot the film “A Perfect Day”, found that Mambrú was a British duke who fought against France in the eighteenth century.

The Mambrú that Del Toro plays in the new film by Fernando Leon de Aranoa-presented yesterday at the Festival itself Cannes- return home with his girlfriend, leaving behind chaos and death in postwar Bosnia, which recreates the film.

“He deserved worth giving birth to the world for aid workers (as Mambrú), “the actor said in an interview with Efe.

Her character leads a group of aid workers from an NGO that tries to rescue a body a well that threatens to poison the only source of drinking water in an unspecified Balkan region in 1995.

For Del Toro, history “is a simple story with depth and humor. There is a shell of humor, but the fruit it bears within it the war “

Along with actors like Tim Robbins and Olga Kurylenko, Del Toro makes you laugh with some vibrant dialogue, but that hide emotional moments.” those moments of humor felt on the set. Yes, it is work, but you have to laugh. “

The previous work to make the film taught Del Toro more about the reality of the disintegration of the former Yugoslavia than he could know through television and the press in the 90s.

For the young Benicio, Yugoslavia was, especially sneakers.

“I have a memory of having tennis Basketball, a Puma, made in Yugoslavia. That country had very good basketball teams and the national team was a power, “he said with a smile.

In this sporting links with their homeland, both in reality and in fiction, Puerto Rico, born one of the funniest moments of the film, when one of the locals Mambrú asks where it comes.

“I’m from Puerto Rico,” says the aid worker.

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The Spanish director Fernando Leon de Aranoa believes that the appearance of We as a political party is “good news for any democracy.”

The director of “Los lunes al sol” is in the process of filming a documentary about we, calling it “a work of long haul”, told Efe in Cannes, where today presented his latest work, “A Perfect Day “,” We started seven or eight months ago and still has far ahead because we want to reach the general elections and present it later, “he said after presenting his new work, which was received with applause in the contest of the French Riviera.

To Leon de Aranoa, the project “has been very exciting, as the Spanish political scene in the last year because many things are changing, as ways of doing politics, and fresh air is coming.” Within these winds of change, “what we are telling us, that is the appearance of Podemos and its conformation as a political party”.

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