Marcelo Piñeyro presents ‘La verdadera historia de Ricardo III, la película’ at the 29th Festival de Málaga
On Sunday 8 March, the Christine Ruiz-Picasso Auditorium hosted a film in which cinema becomes theatre
On Sunday 8 March, the 29th Festival de Málaga presented the film by Argentine director, screenwriter, and producer Marcelo Piñeyro, La verdadera historia de Ricardo III, la película (The True Story of Richard III, the Movie), at the Christine Ruiz-Picasso Auditorium.
The director of the Festival de Málaga, Juan Antonio Vigar, began the presentation by stating that this project seeks to highlight the need to continue producing audiovisual works that combine the stage with the screen. Joaquín Furriel, the film's leading actor, explained that the production was a very difficult undertaking. “How do you bring a theatrical experience to a movie theatre? La verdadera historia de Ricardo III, la película is a hybrid in the best sense”.
Piñeyro's project is born at the threshold where theatre becomes cinema. A radical undertaking by Calixto Bieito, where the camera doesn't observe from the outside: it enters, listens, accentuates, and uncovers details invisible from the audience. A hybrid experience, suspended between reality and fiction, where the two languages merge to tell a reinvented truth.
Furriel explained during the presentation that this work is a “contemporary and highly original vision” that deals with hatred, power, violence, and how “truth can be distorted”.
“I believe that this film is a very powerful representation of what art, culture, and the film and audiovisual industry means in Buenos Aires. This undertaking by Marcelo Piñeiro offers us his perspective, in which we can see Calixto Bieito's work on Shakespeare”, stated Gabriela Ricardes, Minister of Culture of Buenos Aires. Along these lines, Juan Antonio Vigar stated that the Festival de Málaga will continue to support Argentine cinema.
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