“Dust They Will”, the production by Carlos Marqués-Marce with which the Valladolid International Cinema Week opened its 69th edition this Friday – this year the festival will have one more day – shared the spotlight this morning with ‘New Year’, the latest series for Movistar Plus+ by Rodrigo Sorogoyenwho had already worked with this platform in “Antidisturbios”, signs with two other co-directors: Sandra Romero and David Martín de los Santos. “Although it is a series, we conceived it as a cinematic work and we are going to bring it to the cinema. “It is a very pleasant surprise that the national premiere took place here, at Seminci,” declared the filmmaker at the start of the press conference to present this work, with a scenario on which, as he said , they worked “for “many years”.
Live “this immersive experience of ten years in the life of a couple” This was the starting point for this work in which “the fantasy genre seeps through a crack,” as Seminci director José Luis Cienfuegos explains. For the filmmaker, each of the ten chapters having “a sufficiently different color to make it special” was essential. “Essentially, there are ten moments of these two characters every New Year’s Eve, and there was a big risk that they would look very similar,” he explained. The contribution of the protagonist couple was also important: Francesco Carril and Iria del Río, who, according to him, were “almost the writers and the soul of the series”. “We don’t tell big stories, or maybe we do,” he mused, then considering that this work “is the biggest thing” he has done so far “because ‘there are ten chapters’, which was very clear to him from the beginning.
As he admitted, work on the series began with another platform, which abandoned the project. It was then that his production company, Caballo Films, contacted Movistar.
For Francesco Carril, who plays Oscar, The “degree of intimacy” that can be seen in the series “comes largely from the way Rui works”: “He begins to share with you a lot of things about the series that not only have to do with your own work as an actor, but also with certain aesthetic and artistic decisions (…) Sharing his own vision as a filmmaker makes you feel stakeholder.” about what you’re doing, something that doesn’t always happen that way and that’s important because often as actors it seems like we’re only there for our job, but when you feel part of something, you feel the project as part of you, and that for me was a starting signal to see that this is a space in which we can put everything and share everything. We talked a lot about our experiences, our own history, and that contributed to the realization of a lot of things that are happening there,” he explained.
Something his co-star, Iria del Rio, who plays Ana, agreed with, adding that Sorogoyen “has a very brutal commitment to verisimilitude” and that gives “meaning and coherence to things.”
During the press conference, they also talked about the importance of the music, which is very integrated into the story, something they kept in mind “from the beginning”: “A lot of songs that come out, whether diegetic or extradiegetic, were written as a screenplay. “It was something designed from the very conception of the production, and it was almost obligatory,” he added, using the music of Silvia Pérez Cruz in chapter 8 as an example. producer Fran Araújo thanked the good disposition that they found for some of the musicians.
