But Urzula Barba Hopfner used a personal experience to create Corinathat with the cinematographic languageamplifies and mixes with songs like creativityempathy and the courage to move forward.
“I read a sentence from Quentin Tarantino that says ‘Make art so personal that you are ashamed to expose it’ and well, I didn’t make it so personal, in this case fiction without a doubt surpasses my boring story with agoraphobia,” said the filmmaker when presenting her film.
“It’s a delicate topic, in my case I aroused a lot of curiosity finding myself completely paralyzed by a fear that I didn’t understand.
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“And it’s also curious how the environment around you reacts; There are people with zero empathy, but I also believe that it is not as simple as just being empathetic and that’s it. This has to do with stopping your agenda, observing and trying to understand someone before moving on, not with your life, it can simply be your way in the street”, highlighted the director.
On that argument is built Corinawhich tells the story of a 28-year-old girl of the same name, who after suffering a traumatic experience in his childhood, When she grows up, she develops agoraphobia, which forces her not to leave the limits of her block where she has everything, but some characters and situations in her life will demand that she face her fears.
BETWEEN COWARDS AND BRAVE
In the film, the concept of bravery is important when it comes to social relationships and the decision-making of the characters and according to its protagonist, Naian González Norvindbased on the reading of an aphorism about dividing the world between cowards and brave people, cements the vision of the film.
“To have empathy requires a certain courage, the courage to feel what the other person, instead of cowering in his own bubble and here each character demonstrates acts of bravery,” shared the actress.
Likewise, the role of Cristo Fernandez who plays Carlos, is built on these concepts, because despite seeming like a very traditional character of a man who undertakes and seeks to improve himself, he has the sensitivity to see the other.
“He is very macho, but he is sensitive because it is also macho to be curious and he assimilates that machismo, turns it around and makes it less toxic.
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“When you see Corina Walking through the door does not push her aside, she worries, tries to understand her and through curiosity and innocence she has a self-discovery with great learnings,” the actor shared.
Finally, the protagonist highlighted that the “artistic integrity” It is one of the themes that this film touches on and that deserves much more mention, since “Corina He learns it and teaches it and I learned it by seeing Urzula, being faithful to your project at the cost of everything,” he concluded.
Corina hits theaters starting January 9, thanks to Cinépolis Distribution.
At a press conference, Urzula Barba Hopfner, director of #Corinaspoke about the topic that his film deals with
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