The rural drama “As Bestas” used to be the massive winner on the Goya rite, Spain’s similar of the Oscars, which on Saturday night time additionally honoured its lead actor, Frenchman Denis Ménochet, and paid tribute to director Carlos Saura, who died the day prior to at 91.
Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s characteristic movie, starring French actors Marina Foïs and Denis Ménochet, received a complete of 9 awards, together with very best Spanish movie, very best director and very best unique screenplay.
“To be a good director, besides always looking at Carlos Saura, you have to surround yourself with the best team possible. And I did it, that’s the only merit I have,” reacted the 40-year-old filmmaker upon receiving his award on Saturday night time.
The movie’s lead actor, Denis Ménochet, received the award for very best actor. This is a very powerful award got so far by way of the French actor, who has labored with filmmakers François Ozon (“Peter Van Kant”), Quentin Tarantino (“Inglorious Bastards”) and Ridley Scott (“Robin Hood”).
“I have been lucky enough to work with actors I admire,” mentioned the actor in Spanish, mentioning Marina Foïs and the Spaniard Luis Zahera, “best actor in the world” in step with him, awarded the Goya for very best supporting actor.
The movie by way of Rodrigo Sorogoyen, a emerging superstar of Spanish cinema, tells the tale of a pair who fall in love with a destitute nook of Galicia, within the northwest of Spain, whose agreement arouses the threatening hostility of 2 neighbouring brothers.
This characteristic movie impressed by way of a real tale has already been observed by way of 700,000 spectators. It had already led to a sensation in May on the Cannes Film Festival, the place it used to be introduced out of pageant.
“What we liked was to imagine the motivations” of the characters, to look “how you can hate someone in your neighbourhood so much, and (the motivation) of the two foreigners, people who are not welcome but who say to themselves “I’m now not going to go away right here”, the director explained to AFP in Cannes.
The 37th edition of the Goyas was also an opportunity for the film world to pay a tribute to the Spanish director Carlos Saura, who died Friday at his home in the Madrid area, and was awarded an honorary Goya.
“The loss of life of Carlos Saura has moved all the career” because “he used to be one of the crucial good representatives of Spanish tradition,” stressed the president of the Film Academy Fernando Méndez-Leite at the ceremony in Seville, southern Spain.
The Goya was presented to the filmmaker’s two children and his wife, the actress Eulalia Ramón. The latter read a message prepared by Carlos Saura, thanking those who have accompanied him “on this superb paintings that’s the making of a movie”.
Born on January 4, 1932, in Huesca (Aragon, north), Carlos Saura made about fifty films, including “Cria Cuervos” in 1975. He has received numerous awards during his career, including a Silver Bear in 1966 in Berlin for “The Hunt”.
The filmmaker, who should have come to collect his prize in person, is considered a key figure in the history of Spanish cinema, along with Luis Buñuel and Pedro Almodovar.
The Goya also paid tribute to the French actress Juliette Binoche, who received an international award for her “abnormal trajectory” in cinema.
While receiving her award, the actress sang the tune of “Porque te vas”, an emblematic song from the film “Cria Cuervos” by Carlos Saura. The Spanish filmmaker “moved me extraordinarily”, she said, before saying in Spanish that she was “glad” to receive this “superb prize”.
During her 40-year career, Juliette Binoche has played in many films, including “Les Amants du Pont-Neuf” and “The English Patient”, for which she won the Oscar for very best supporting actress.
