Open air It is a film written by the renowned screenwriter Guillermo Arriagain which his children Mariana y Santiago took the chair directorto show an argument that talks about forgiveness, revenge and past wounds, which was written ago more than 30 years and was finally put into action.
“For 20 years, the rights were sold and I sold them because they wanted me to direct it, but the producers They did two things that I never fully agreed with. Initially they put other directors and I said ‘if the director is me, why give it to someone else’, and then they put her in a workshop where she was They applied many changes with which I did not agree, but at the time I accepted them with the intention of making the film, I said to myself ‘it is worth listening to other points of view.’
“That’s why that version couldn’t be filmed and I told Santiago He also didn’t know where the original was and as soon as I got them back, he started looking for the original and I’m very happy that I didn’t direct it, but rather directors who are much better than me,” he said. Guillermo Arriagaat a press conference, on the occasion of the commercial premiere of Open air.
But for his son Santiago, finding this text was diving deep into his memories, both in its story, which takes place in the 90s, and in the environment in which it was written with the situations of that time.
“My dad wrote in machine to write, He kept all the versions in boxes and when they moved, they kept them in a warehouse; It took hours to review everything and I found the first writings of Love Dogs, The Three Burials (by Melquiades Estrada)
and several other things and at the bottom was the manuscript of Open airthat there was no never read, it was a baby when he made it and that’s how this story happened,” said the young filmmaker.
For her part, Mariana said that there were many moments with which she identified in this production.
“Fighting for television It is something very familiar that I found in the film, very similar to what we lived and many of those family dynamics, I felt that they were inspired by the ways in which we lived.”
That is why he assured that almost all Love It stayed exactly as his dad wrote it, although there were a couple of changes, like the ending.
Open airarrives at Cinépolis on October 17.