“Cinema and culture have cured us”

In his speech at the Goya Awards gala, the director of the Film Academy, Mariano Barroso stressed that “cinema and culture cure sadness”. And he gave the example of an actress who lost her mother a few days before shooting a movie with him: “I thought I would never get over it. And that he would not have the strength to shoot the comedy that awaited us in just a few days. I convinced her to travel with me to Lisbon and I put her in a room that was full of movies. “

“And I told him that if sadness ever came to him, he should take one of those movies. When sadness arrived, he took any one, which was one of Rosellini with Ana Magnani. He began to see her and immediately became hooked on the story and for two hours he forgot everything. And in a few days he came out of his infinite sadness ”.

“That actress was Ángela Molina, who in a few minutes will collect the Honorary Goya”–Added the director-. The cinema is going to heal us, as it has cured her. Ángela Molina believes in the power of cinema, like all of us ”.

“If we were to review how many movies we have seen this year. Thousands of years of cinema would come out. How much the cinema has helped us to get out of that sadness. Sometimes the films have come to look for us at home, others have been released in theaters as Father there is only one. Almost all Spanish. We have continued to see the cinema in many ways and in many cases it has cured us. We have accompanied people with images, words and sounds to heal sadness and overcome pain “.

Barroso has also highlighted that: “For the first time, half of the directors are women and almost half of all the nominees”.