Griselda arrived in Venice on Tuesday and today, Thursday, will have an impressive day.
Sicilian Griselda You must feel, inside, that you are touching the sky with your hands. From Tuesday here at the Lido, the island in front of Venice where the Film Festival has been held since yesterday, August 31st, Griselda is ready for anything. co-stars Bardo (or false chronicle of few truths)the new of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarrituand a tsunami arrives.
This Thursday 1 September there are screenings for the press, in the morning (was kept under lock and key until the plot)then is the press conference, in which he will be together with the Mexican director, from Birdmanand our compatriot Nicolás Giacobone, co-writer and who already knows about the film the last Elvis.
And in the evening, the gala, the presentation in society of the director’s longest film the reborn Y loves dogs (lasts almost three hours).
First time at a Class A Festival
-This in Venice is your first experience in an A-class international festival.
-I was once at the Sundance Film Festival with the last Elvis, but a long time ago. That was my first festival experience of this level. And in 2020 Sentimentalby Cesc Gay, premiered at the San Sebastian Film Festival, but due to the pandemic I couldn’t travel, and the truth is that I really wanted to go and accompany that film I love.
With what expectations did you arrive in Venice?
-Now I have a lot of expectations that the public will see Bard. It was an incredible film to make, an experience where everything was new to me, where I learned something every day and the result is so amazing that I can’t wait to share it at the gala, with a cinema full of people of all. in the world.
-How long ago did you see the finished film?
-Only a few days ago and I’m still surprised and I think a thousand things. Bardo is great.
More than a dream
Was being in a film festival, as an actress, competing, a dream for you at some point?
-The truth is that it’s more than I dreamed of. While doing theater and television, I always thought that when I had a film project that I really had to do, it would be very strong and that I would not be able to say no. So it was. I didn’t have festivals as my goal, although only in this case did I know that with a new film by Alejandro it would happen.
–Variety mentions “Bardo” as one of the likely Oscar nominees for Best International Film. Can you imagine it now here, in September in Venice, and in March 2023 at the Oscars?
Honestly, being in competition in Venice, and for me for the first time, is something so important to any film in the world that for now I am focused on enjoying this moment to the fullest. This alone is already a lot!
-Will you accompany the “Bard” in any other festival?
-For now it’s Venice, and we’ll see later. I am already warned that things can change day by day. Venice is usually football.
-Nicolás Giacobone is the co-writer, who had previously worked with González Iñárritu and won the Oscar for the screenplay of “Birdman”. Did you get to talk to him before the shoot, during or after?
-We knew each other because he was also co-writer of the last Elvisbut during Bard I didn’t speak during the shooting process. We were only able to go out for dinner after filming was over. I am very happy to have coincided with him again in another project that I like so much.
-This Saturday, two days after “Bardo”, they screen “Argentina, 1985”, also in competition for the Golden Lion. Will you see him at the gala?
-I hope so, and to be able to go with the Argentine shirt!
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Paul O. Scholz
Source: Clarin
