The two actors in the film “Raymond & Ray”: Raymond (Ewan McGregor) is a staid man who lives a quiet life despite two divorces. Ray (Hawke), on the other hand, does not hide the grudge.
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Raymond & Ray (arriving on Apple TV + from 21 October with a preview at the Rome Film Festival), or the journey into the feelings of two brothers who share a grudge against a distant and violent father. To interpret the two protagonists are Ewan McGregor and Ethan Hawke who had never worked on the same set. The meeting was favored by the director and screenwriter of the film, Rodrigo García who in the past has almost always talked about women with The things I know about her, 9 women’s lives, Albert Nobbs.
García is the son of the writer Gabriel García Márquez and in this story of father-son relationships one asks him if he drew on his own personal experience. “Not in a literal sense, my father was certainly not a monster, but people tend to ask me how much he influenced my personality and I answer that it is something that happens to everyone. It doesn’t matter if you are the son of a Nobel Prize-winning writer or a taxi driver, the influence of a parent is always enormous. So, even if there is nothing real about the relationship with my father in the film, there is that influence, that presence of a father and a son in their respective lives ».
When a father calls two children with the same name to avoid the risk of confusing them, this influence can only be harmful.
Raymond & Ray is the story of the journey undertaken by the two protagonists to reach the funeral site of the hated parent.
Raymond, played by Ewan McGregor is a staid man who lives a quiet life despite two divorces. He seems to have forgiven. Ray (Hawke), on the other hand, does not hide the grudge. His career as a musician was mortified by his bulky relative. “His father destroyed Ray’s self-esteem, his creativity through music – says Hawke -. Ray is talented but unable to express it for the damage his father has done. Eventually things will change, but this is not a film about forgiveness ». It is undoubtedly a film about personal growth: «I found my last line very touching, which says that we didn’t really know him. Raymond and Ray have only seen one aspect of their parent, there are other people in his life who have had a more positive relationship with him. I think that’s a little bit true for all human beings. I remember my grandfather’s funeral. My mother used to say that listening to all the people who talked about him and who told other sides of my grandfather’s personality, she realized that she only partially knew her father ».
McGregor, on the other hand, prefers not to tell too much about his personal experiences. “Today it is no longer possible to do so. Whatever you say, then maybe it is picked up and distorted on the web “
“Family members – Hawke resumes – often seem to us a sort of obstacle to life, a mishap, but then they appear in front of us and make us understand that they are really our life. Which are part of us. People who know where you come from and who you are without having to explain or pretend. It is the power of the family ».
October 6, 2022 (change October 6, 2022 | 20:37)
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