Around the year 2000, two young men transitioned from commercial cinema and director assistance to the shooting of their first films. Eventually they became great filmmakers: Fabián Bielinsky made his debut Nine queensY Alejandro González Iñárritu loves dogs. At that moment it occurred to me to collect them and do an interview with that very axis.
Twenty-one years later, Fabián is not physically with us, and González Iñárritu already has four Oscars at home in Los Angeles. Because, Mexican, he moved with his family to the United States, as he recounts in this interview, alone, which we had after the world premiere at the Venice Film Festival of Bardhis new film and which arrives this Friday, December 16 at Netflix.
Iñárritu also recalls the distributor of loves dogs in our country “He was a nice person, the distributor. He was an elderly gentleman. Everyone was bigger for us, but he was a nice person. I have good memories of Argentina”.
-Are you back in Argentina?
-I went, but not to open (before) a movie. I went for a walk once or twice, but no, not accompanying a movie.
-What was the trigger for this film? What made you think and when did you decide that this would be your next production, about a Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker returning from the United States?
-I think it has to do… There are two important things. The first is that next year I will be 60 and as you are a little closer to death, I think there is always an inevitable invitation, or temptation, because there is less forward than backward. And the back is a little more complex. There is an interesting emotional baggage and there is a temptation to explore it…
There’s something that invited me to make sense of certain things, that don’t make sense until you dive into that ocean. And the other is that on a day like today, 21 years ago, my family and I left our country, and having been to one as different as the United States, there can’t be two more different things than the United States. and Mexico and that they are blocked… I think there are a lot of questions that I wanted to solve.
-Many times the first image you choose to open a movie is largely what defines the movie. It is the image that the director chooses, as if he were outlining what is to come. How did that image of Silverio come to your mind, his shadow flying, walking, jumping? Where does it come from?
-I often dream of flying, which is a very recurring image and it came very naturally to me, I felt it was something like in the soul, not in the mind, but in someone’s soul. Unlike Birdman, here you are in someone’s soul. It’s not something mental.
-In “Birdman” you ended up flying, and here you open the flight…
-LOL.
-I found the number 63 many times in the movie, they were premeditated, I suppose…
-Yes, there is a shop 63, Pelayo, which is also a tribute to a friend of mine who passed away. I was born in ’63 and he too…
Source: Clarin
