He motion #MeToo marked cinema as an industry and its social environment by criticizing personalities seen as untouchable based on their actions as social beings and the director Alejandra Marquez Abella took this argument to build a fantastic and realistic world in its serie The Liberation.
The production tells a story that turns to a medieval past of witches and punishments while a narration in off At present “it talks about healing women’s historical wounds,” said the director when presenting The Liberation before the media.
🗣️ At a press conference for ‘La Liberación’, its creator, Alejandra Márquez Abella, spoke about how Cassandra Ciangherotti, Johanna Murillo and Ilse Salas contributed to the project
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“There are many behaviors or social dynamics that some women question and want deconstructour conversation is about it and I sought to portray it,” he added.
The plot starts from the Middle Ages as a historical moment of the establishment of patriarchy to reflect on the present, it came out of the book Caliban and the Witch of Silvia Federici, but The Liberation It has more than one genesis.
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“When the movement arose It’s time (MeToo in Mexico) many of us joined and I began to get involved in the assemblies of the writers and filmmakers, I met the organized feminist groupsthen the pandemic hit and I wrote these two episodes during that period,” said Márquez.
Therefore, the plot of the series consists of how a video in which a well-known filmmaker is accused of harassment, It unites a journalist in decline with her sister who is the wife of the accused, an actress who seeks to remove silly stigmas and the director’s manager in an attempt to save the character or save themselves despite what it may cost materially.
WOMAN’S LOOK
To Alejandra Marquez It is important to detach oneself from the male vices of cinema when portraying normality and seeks to do everything from a woman’s perspective that criticism as a conscious social subject.
“I have been very committed to figuring out how to shoot, write and direct from the female gaze (female gaze), which is basically broadening the gaze of the spectators and including the experience of women in the portraits of the human experience, the director said.
He highlighted that there is a scene in which one of the protagonists goes to the gynecologist and talks with him in depth while he examines her, “many identify with that as something that could have happened to them recently. They see the series as a conversation between friends,” she explained.
In the cast are Cassandra Ciangherotti, Johanna Murillo and Ilse Salas and each one helped build her character from personal experiences.
The Liberation premieres January 17 on Prime Video.
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