Clara Roquet meditates on the relationship between classes in her directorial debut
Valladolid, Oct 23 (EFE) .- A reflection on the relationship between social classes of different extraction, the breakdown of traditional hierarchies, flies over in "Libertad", the first film by Spanish director Clara Roquet, which premieres this Saturday the 66th Valladolid International Film Week (Seminci).
Roquet, born in Vic (Barcelona) 32 years ago, makes her debut in great footage with the experience of several scripts for films and mainly with "El adiós", the short film with which she won the Golden Spike in 2015 at the Valladolid festival and that it is the germ of "Freedom", he explained this Sunday at a press conference.
"What the film intends is to raise a question, that of whether friendship, empathy and love can overcome the relations between classes, why it costs so much to break the differences on other scales", has reflected Roquet in front of the leading actresses of the cast, including Vicky Peña.
A girl who is not fifteen years old, played by María Morera, is the alter ego of Clara Roquet in a film where the viewer attends the protagonist's awareness through observation, stupor and rebellion caused by everything what he sees and what he assumes until he reaches a full transformation.
The director uses it to expose through her eyes the catalog of personal situations that floods the rest of the characters: personal disappointments, vital boredom, infidelities and family ruptures, among others, with which the viewer can easily get involved.
Grandmother, mother and daughter, with their anxieties and anxieties, also offer a repertoire of each generation: from Alzheimer's disease and the vital anguish of old age, to the mother's personal disappointment and the adolescent's first contact with him. opposite sex and alcohol.
"I am fascinated by my character and the cohort of history, also the point of view that all women leave. I really liked the generations that follow one another and coexist with different points of view and sensitivities," said actress Vicky Peña, the grandmother and matriarch of the film.
However, the common thread that women mark within the feature film, Clara Roquet has been in favor of moving away "the labels of female cinema, putting them aside and seeking the reactions of both male and female audiences."
The search for one's own areas, for spaces of freedom as suggested by the title of the film and that of one of the characters, also has its correspondence in another female character, a Colombian immigrant who works as a domestic worker and who, throughout the film, reels off the weight of its history, that of thousands of migrants who sacrifice life and family to get ahead in other countries.
The entry into adolescence of Nora, Clara Roquet's eyes in fiction, opens one door and closes another, that of a movie that leaves a question in the air: "How will you react after everything you have experienced? Is he going to change his identity or will he still follow what his mother says? ", Asked Roquet.
