Agustí Villaronga explores the despair of all shipwrecks: "We are very little thing"

In a scene from The belly of the sea (Agustí Villaronga), one of the characters discovers that the ocean that shakes them is something more than the mere scene of their agony. "The sea was only a mirror. And there, in its belly, I saw myself. I saw the truth," says Savigny, one of the survivors of the shipwreck of La Medusa, when he realizes that he will never have consolation or salvation. The belly of the sea, Villaronga's new film that has just been presented at the Malaga Festival is a tough work and at times atrocious in its investigation of the darkest corners of despair. However, its director believes that it also gives cause for optimism: "The film speaks with hope, and ends with a white candle on the horizon."

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