“A lot of hope. It has been an end of course in style! I am very grateful to the film for everything it has given us & rdquor ;. This is how it is expressed Clara Roquet, Goya for Best New Director for ‘Libertad’when we asked him about the wonderful trajectory of the film since it was presented last year at the Critics’ Week of the cannes festival and it was later the opening film of the Seminci de Valladolid, before reaching the premiere theaters in November. ‘Liberty’ She has also won the Goya in the category of supporting actress for Nora Navas.
We have already written in EL PERIÓDICO that the image of Roquet flanked by Belén Funes and Pilar Palomero, winners of the same award in the two previous editions, was one of the most powerful and emotional moments of the ceremony. For what it meant generationally and for certifying the talent of some filmmakers who have only just begun. Asked about that moment, about that moment of fulfillment for the new filmmakers in our country, Roquet confesses that “it is something to celebrate. A good job is being done from the institutions and the commitment on the part of the producers to bet on these films is very positive & rdquor ;. Roquet goes even further from her when we quote the image of her with Funes and Palomero, and she reminds us that Clara Simon He also won the Goya for best new director at the 2018 gala for ‘Estiu 1993’ and which he repeated in 2019 Arantxa Echevarria for ‘Carmen and Lola’. Five years in a row rewarding female directors is more than just a trend. Here is the really important fact.
Clara Roquet picks up the Goya for Best New Director for her debut feature, Libertad. She listens to her speech again #Goya2022 pic.twitter.com/2T0b356hgP
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‘Freedom’ is a sensitive, attentive and panoramic story about what awaits her teenage protagonist, Nora, during a family summer. The grandmother suffers from Alzheimer’s in a very advanced stage, which in a certain way conditions the summer lassitude of those days and marks a turning point in the life of the protagonist and those around her. Freedom is a broad concept, but in the film it is also the name of the daughter of the grandmother’s Colombian caregiver. And with her, with her different way of understanding life, young Nora learns to find, or glimpse, her place in the world when she is too young to understand adults and too old to continue playing with them. children.
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Roquet signs the script alone. For the first time, cut to the side, he writes for her. Until now she had actively participated in the writing of films such as ‘10,000 KM’ (2014) and ‘Els dies que vindran’ (2019), by Carlos Marqués-Marcet, ‘Petra’ (2018), by Jaime Rosales, and ‘L’ofrena’ (2020), by Ventura Durall. Movies with characters, plots, conflicts and environments that are very different from those of ‘Libertad’. It is known that, throughout the history of cinema, many screenwriters have decided to go to the other side of the camera dissatisfied with how some directors treated their texts. This is the case of Paul Schrader, who was never completely satisfied with what Martin Scorsese and other filmmakers did with his scripts. Roquet adds another transcendental figure, that of Billy Wilder, and that he had written for greats of classic cinema such as Ernst Lubitsch, Mitchell Leisen and Howard Hawks.
But it has not been the case. “I always tend to put myself at the service of the gaze of the director with whom I worked & rdquor ;, says the screenwriter and director. She has had no problems with any of them. In ‘Libertad’, simply, “there are many personal components and it was logical that I did it”.