This year, the Goya travels again. it goes up to Valencia. The Goya. The Goya Awards 2022. All the statuettes that will be given to the winners in 30 different categories, of which we already know two lucky ones: that of Honor to José Sacristán and the first International Goya for Cate Blanchett.
After celebrating last year with an impeccable virtual ceremony recorded from Malaga , this year Spanish cinema travels in person to Levante. To the birth city of one of our greatest filmmakers, Luis Garcia Berlanga to continue celebrating his centenary.
For him Palau des Arts The protagonists will spend next Saturday in front of and behind the cameras of the nominated films: The good boss, Parallel mothers, Libertad, Maixabel, Mediterráneo… And also some of last year's winners and many more colleagues. This year the party returns. Although the party travels. He goes to Valencia. good ending for a year of Spanish cinema also very traveler.
White scales.
THE GOOD PATRON
With their 20 nominations , The Good Boss is the most nominated film in this 36th edition of the Goya Awards and in the history of the awards. a resounding success that probably, will materialize in the jackpots. Few doubts.
In this case, we do not travel much with White (Javier Bardem), the good patron of the title, is a story shot in towns of Madrid, but that could have happened in so many parts. Who does not know that apparent good boss? A local chief. A man who thinks he controls everything from the comfort of his car and his chalet.
Milena Smith and Penelope Cruz.
PARALLEL MOTHERS
As we said in its premiere, that of Parallel Mothers is an emotional journey. And also political and maternal. It is the journey of Pedro Almodovar between two Spains. Between two mothers. It is a tour of his beloved Madrid. With very recognizable locations like that Plaza de las Comendadoras, the Barceló Market, the Urso hotel, the Hemingway Cocktail Bar at Casa Sweden.
The traditional neighborhoods and the posh neighborhoods. And then the return to the town, always to the town, where the ghosts of the past still refuse to leave. eight nominations has Almodóvar's latest film at the 2022 Goya Awards.
Liberty and Nora.
FREEDOM (BY CLARA ROQUET)
That summer. That summer which suddenly was different from all the others. Nora returns to the family house (mansion) on the Catalan coast. But it won't be another summer. It may be the last time they spend in that house. The crisis of her parents. Her grandmother more and more lost. and the arrival of Libertad, the daughter of the woman who takes care of the house and her grandmother.
For Nora that summer, that pool, that sea are suddenly not the same as in the last decade. the new director Clara Rochet she took the protagonists of her by Sant Andreu de Llavaneres, Lloret de Mar, Blanes, Barcelona, Sitges, Vilanova and Garraf. Those traditional landscapes that will never be the same for Nora have six Goya nominations.
Blanca Portillo is Maixabel.
MAIXABEL
The second favorite of the night, which she shares with 14 nominations, It is a journey to the past and the present. The tour of Maixabel Lasa (Blanca Portillo) to find inner peace and continue fighting for the peace of all. A hymn to second chances in the troubled Basque Country at the beginning of the century and onwards. A Euskadi very well portrayed by Iciar Bollain, from San Sebastián and its La Concha bay to rural areas.
The difficult and beautiful Mediterranean.
MEDITERRANEAN
“The law of the sea says that life must be protected, that one must not leave a castaway adrift”. Following the law of the sea, two lifeguards go to the greek island of lesbos to help in the refugee crisis. A humanitarian crisis that was the birth of the Proactive NGO Open Arms. A difficult journey by sea. A short trip, from Turkey to Lesbos , but that can be dangerous, deadly. the other side of that Mediterranean that we love so much With seven nominations part the movie.
Javier Gutiérrez and Patricia López Arnaiz.
THE DAUGHTER
Before having the story closed, the director Manuel Martin Cuenca he already knew that he would shoot La hija in the Sierras de Cazorla and Segura in Jaén, “an unknown place even for Andalusians”. They shot in spring and autumn to get all the colors of those mountains that could only be accessed by 4x4. Very far from the first town. An area in which nature is queen and you just have to respect it, observe it and listen to it so that it gives you the best colors of it and even sound and visual effects. That is the theory of its director.
Petra Martinez and Almeria.
LIFE WAS THAT
Two women (Anna Castillo and Petra Martinez) meet by chance in a hospital room in Belgium. María (Martínez), the older of the two, has been there for years, but meeting Verónica leads her to make an unexpected trip to Cabo de Gata, to the town of Las Salinas, where the salt does smell, the wind blows and loneliness strikes. A journey of reinvention, of redemption, of rediscovery. The definitive role for that great mature actress that is Petra Martínez. Y Cabo de Gata, Of course, always Cabo de Gata.
The neighborhood girls.
girls
"The girl can leave the neighborhood, but not the girl's neighborhood”. A demand of the neighborhood. From the pride of the neighborhood and the friends of always, take you where life takes you. When you go back to those houses, to the same bars, to your same people , you will feel at home again, although sometimes it is difficult to fit in again, as it happens to Martha (Vicky Luengo) in Chavalas, another of those surprise films of the season with two first-time nominations: for its director carol rodriguez and her revelation actress, Angela Cervantes. They shot it in Cornellà, by the way.
Spain five.
THE LAWS OF THE BORDER
The Spain quinqui of the Transition revisited with a warm, nostalgic lens. Daniel Monzon and Jorge Guerricaechevarria adapt the homonymous novel by Javier Fences in which a boy is involved in a love trio and a gang of thieves. The Catalan coast It is the main stage of the brokerages of these kids with imposing wigs. Girona, Manresa, Montblanc, Cardedeu, Mataró… A good Catalan tour that opts for six nominations.