It takes courage to make your directorial debut with a film about society’s misfits, but luckily he had his childhood friend Penelope Cruz at his side. The project is called All in one day and he’s Argentinian actor Juan Diego Botto (yes, the one who made Margot Robbie go insane in The Suicide Squad). The story, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, shows “how the economic crisis strains – in his words – human relationships until they crumble”. This is repeated by Luis Tosar, who plays the lawyer Rafa, someone who risks ruining his family to defend the poor: “We all find ourselves in the category of casual workers at least once. It happened to me when I wanted to be a father and I had no money in the bank ».
Penelope Cruz plays Azucena, a mother who has 24 hours before the bank throws her out of her house: “To prepare me for this excruciating pain, the director got me to meet women with a history of domestic violence who are forced to live on the streets with children. A woman had a child with cancer, she went to the police many times, but to no avail. Many have attempted the struggle to survive and it has happened to me in the past. It was really heartbreaking to direct.”
The theme of eviction is intertwined with that of immigration in the context of a society that crushes the most vulnerable and ties are crumbling: «My heart broke before similar stories – continues the Spanish Oscar winner – because for me family remains the most important thing, really important in life”. Here, however, it collapses piece by piece without receiving any help.
«In my career – he adds – I’ve played seven women with children, most of them with Pedro Almodovar, and something also needs to be said. I’ve always had a very strong maternal instinct, when I was little I used to tell the other kids in the park that when I grow up my dream is to be a mother. That’s why it’s important to me to tell the complexity of this all-encompassing love. Adults think that the little ones in the house don’t see the tension and violence, instead they notice and internalize the idea of nowhere being safe. They grow up in fear and insecurity.” And the film shows that: Even the new generations are deprived of hope for a future with decent work.
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