Daniel Guzmán, craftsman of the picaresque
He arrives exhausted, however can hardly cease smiling. darkish circles converse of an advanced deliveryhowever laughter tells us the story of a cheerful father. Daniel Guzman (Madrid, 1972) was the good protagonist of yesterday’s session on the Malaga Competition, the place yesterday he introduced the movie he has been engaged on for the final seven…
He arrives exhausted, however can hardly cease smiling. darkish circles converse of an advanced deliveryhowever laughter tells us the story of a cheerful father. Daniel Guzman (Madrid, 1972) was the good protagonist of yesterday’s session on the Malaga Competition, the place yesterday he introduced the movie he has been engaged on for the final seven years: “scoundrels”. Based mostly on the lifetime of his pal, Joaquin Gonzalezwhom he additionally recruits as an actor alongside himself and Luis Tosar, the movie is a type of grotesque journey via the existence of a handbook smoke vent, a determined father and a kind of characters that in Saxon we might say are larger than life itself. Midway between the heist filmessentially the most conventional comedy and pure neighborhood cinema, “Canallas” follows González and his two buddies with doubtful intentions attempting to get out of 1 mess after one other, at all times with cash because the trigger, resolution and means.
«It has been, as an actor and director, the shoot wherein I’ve had the worst time in my life. In the course of the rehearsals, all the things went effectively, however Joaquín didn’t adapt to the taking pictures. He had studied it in order that no dialogue labored. He obtained blocked. And that annoyed me in a type of vicious circle. I advised him that there are individuals who wait their entire lives for a chance like this, that I’ve buddies who’ve taken their very own lives for not with the ability to dedicate themselves to being actors. And that, in fact, ended up being counterproductive. We did loads of harm at first and the movie was thrown at us”, confesses Guzmán sincerely in an interview with LA RAZÓN and along with González, who remembers the primary weeks of filming as traumatic and the twenty of actors who might have changed him. “The entire film was like telling those that one thing purple was blue. No person understood it till we might paint it blue. This danger was not crucial, however it’s what I wished to do. And it’s my film. And that’s a fucking privilegean nearly handmade luxurious that I’ve been fortunate sufficient to have the ability to give myself, ”provides the director.
With the social drive of a Berlanga, right here the express however well-placed criticism of the banks and the political class, and the character portrait of a Fesser, Guzmán stands on his “scoundrels” artisan of the picaresque, transcending parody and turning his movie into one thing a lot nearer to the shiny «Airbag» that to the «Torrente» of which González, parodied by the calls for of the script, was afraid to strategy: «I’m not the worst. My drawback is that I at all times inform Dani issues forward of time. He has parodied that a part of me that’s an entrepreneur who by no means fairly closed the deal of his life », he explains. Overcome the worry that the protagonist’s vertiginous diction – “I converse sooner than I believe,” he says –, might take the viewers out of a movie that, after half an hour of enhancing, confusion turns out to be useful, Guzmán exemplifies his miracle: «The meeting of normally takes three months. We now have put about fifteen. Taking pictures with non-professional actors led us to build up loads of footage with a purpose to discover the reality, life. It has been a really laborious course of. All of the trauma was multiplied by a thousand, however I hope the thrill too », she says goodbye.