Cinema. Elena López Riera and Luna Pamies Choose ‘El agua’ for Best New Director and Best New Actress Awards
Although Elena López Riera has long since moved away from Orihuela, the Vega Baja filmmaker wanted to create the backdrop for her first film, ‘El agua’. A film presented during the Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival with which the filmmaker will compete for the Goya for Best New Director this Saturday.
For her starring role in the film, young Luna Pamies, also from Orihuela, has been nominated for the Best New Actress award. The cast of the film is completed with the Murcian actor Alberto Olmo and the actresses Barbara Lennie and Nieve de Medina.
‘The water’ is based on a legend, on an old folk belief passed down from generation to generation, according to which some women are destined to disappear with every new flood because they ‘have the water in them’. The film introduces Ana, who lives with her mother and grandmother in a house that is viewed with suspicion by the rest of the town. And in the midst of the electric atmosphere that precedes the rain, Ana meets José as she struggles to throw the ghosts away.
A film that, for Alberto Olmo, is “the mix between the everyday and the magic of few words”. Olmo, who plays the role of José, is a professional actor and made his big screen debut with this movie, just like Luna Pamies. However, unlike the Murcian, Pamies was not committed to interpretation. Nor are the rest of the children who are part of his group of friends in fiction. Something that is due to the director’s desire to work with local people to, as she explained in an interview for Las Provincias, “tell the story of a new generation trying to rewrite history, going their own way despite what she has been told “told what to do.”
«Curious: you see the film and you also see the Murcia whose regions are irrigated by the Segura, the cities along the river, the neighborhoods, the bars along the road, the farms, the heat, the citrus fruits, the gangs, the urban ugliness, the beauty of its nature, lack of culture, friendliness, political destruction due to failed investments, immigration reaping the harvest…”, emphasized LA VERDAD journalist Antonio Arco on ‘El agua’.
An idea that, as the director has explained on several occasions, comes from a strong memory: a flood that happened in 1987, when I was five years old. A shocking fact because of the fear of what water means to the inhabitants who inhabit the banks of the Segura, the meanings given to these natural phenomena and the stories that persist over time.
Seven years after her debut with the short film ‘Pueblo’, which also made it to Cannes, the Oriolana has this Saturday the chance to win the Goya in a category where she competes with Carlota Pereda (‘Cerdita’), Mikel Gurrea (‘Suro ‘), Juan Diego Botto (‘In the margins’) and Alauda Ruiz de Azúa (‘Five little wolves’).
Source: La Verdad
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