Guédiguian presents French film about consequences of Armenian genocide – Terra Mexico

Mac Swiney Adela Gonzalez. He sent Valladolid, October 25 (Notimex) .- Robert Guédiguian, French filmmaker portraying the oppressed, the weak and poor, today presented his latest film, “Une histoire de fou”, competing in the Official Section 60 International Film Festival of Valladolid (Seminci). The film, which deals with the Armenian genocide and its consequences, is inspired by “The Bomb”, autobiographical novel of Spanish journalist Jose Antonio Gurriarán, present in the room with actress and wife of director Ariane Ascaride, star of the film. The film tells the story of Aram, a young Armenian belonging to the Armenian Secret Army, and Gilles, who wants to meet after being the victim of one of his attacks. At a press conference, Guédiguian said: “I would never have been able to tell the story of the Armenian genocide and its consequences had he not met Jose Antonio Gurriarán”. Guédiguian, in his sixth participation in Seminci it won the Golden Spike in the 45th Week “La ville est tranquille” (The Town Is Quiet) by his wife Ariane Ascaride also won the award for Best Actress, defined to his new film as “a gathering of men of goodwill.” He stressed the importance of being in Beirut, Armenia, or anywhere else in the world, there is a “common will” fight “for peace, for justice, for there to be greater equality in the distribution of wealth, among others satisfactions “. Gurriarán said “is the best movie I’ve ever seen on terrorism: so well armed, with characters so well defined.” In the film, the director changed the journalist Gurriarán for third-year medical student to emphasize the “total ignorance” of his surroundings and attempt to point out that the history of “ignorance, innocence.” In this regard, Gurriarán He said he did not move as a journalist “but as a human being, as left-wing intellectual, as a person concerned about justice. I moved by something more human than journalistic and Stockholm syndrome,” he confessed. Guédiguian is not the first director trying to adapt the novel to film, but the first one Gurriarán gave carte blanche “Pilar Miró had picked up an actor Jose Sacristan, but I did not convince me the script,” he said Meanwhile, Ariane Ascaride shared how. He lived the shooting of the film. “I did not prepare much, I like to jump into the void” He compared the actor’s work with the musician, because “as a violinist can learn to play the violin very well, in the end all that matters It is the interpretation. ” NTX / I / AMG / BGG /