'Invisibles', by Gracia Querejeta
On Friday 6th of March opens in theaters invisible , a story written and directed by Grace Querejeta (Seven French pool tables, Hector, crime wave …) where it boards the invisibility that women face when they reach the age of 50. she was the actress mercedes sampietro the one who warned the filmmaker on her day: “Gracia, you still don't know, but there comes a day when you become invisible to men ”. "Yes, it was her, and the truth is that she was right," admits the director with a laugh.
The idea had been in her mind for a long time, from when she was filming in Oxford The Last Voyage of Robert Rylands (1995): “I was interested when twenty, twenty-five years ago, nobody walked in Spain, which was a very rare thing. I was struck by the fact that in England they got together to walk. that image of people walking It stayed there and it has come out in this form and at this time.”
'Invisibles', by Gracia Querejeta, a portrait of women and the stigma of old age
Querejeta is not very given to autobiographical stories but she does admit that invisible it is his most personal work : “Yes, because there is something of me in these strolling women . It is not that I am any of them in particular, but they are women that I recognize. And that I think she's going to recognize a lot of people in the audience."
These three women are embodied by Emma Suarez (Elsa), Adriana Ozores (Julia) and Nathalie Poza (Amelia) . “With Adriana it is the third film that I make. I know her very well, and since I started writing the script she was in the process, she plays the character of Julia. Exactly the same thing happened with Emma, although he hadn't worked with her. The last of all was Nathalie Poza ”, she exposes.
A FILM SHOT IN CÁCERES
The film has been shot entirely in the city of Cáceres . As he tells us, “in the Parque del Principe, specifically . We have felt super comfortable there, it is a beautiful park, the park we dreamed of for the film. Neither small nor too big. The people there have been wonderful to us. It has been a pleasure". We will also see more locations in the capital of Extremadura, although he prefers not to mention them so as not to “make spoilers”.
Grace Querejeta
The reason for shooting there was a film contest: “We won a contest for best script of the year there. They made an investment of money in the project, but we had to shoot there , and that we have done, ”she points out.
The director does not believe that the film industry be especially unfair to women as they age : “It is not a matter of the film industry, It's a general question I think . Time does not pass the same for men as for women, clearly. don't look the same”.
Fortunately, invisible She shows that we are seeing more and more productions signed and starring women. A film shot and starring women.
'Invisible' or the stigma of age
Are we on the way to gender equality in our cinema? "Slowly we are all fighting for the same thing . Or at least all women. I think that little by little it will be achieved, ”she reflects.
invisible opens this Friday, March 6 in all Spanish cinemas. Among its cast we will also see Blanca Portillo as Mara, Fernando Cayo as Alberto, Pedro Casablanc as the "Tie Man" and Paqui Horcajo as the coach.