Those of us who love photography are on a roll if we look at the world of cinema. Again we have a photographer as the protagonist in another Spanish film. In this case we find ‘Chavalas’, by Carol Rodríguez Colás, which we can see in theaters from September 3.
We were recently talking about the role of Penélope Cruz in Almodóvar’s last. Now we find a debut in which the protagonist is a photographer who has to return to her neighborhood of a lifetime after trying to succeed in the world of images.
Marta is a neighborhood girl who shamefully denies her past and must face reality. We are facing a comedy that has won the Audience Award at the last Malaga festival. And this is sure to be a guarantee to enjoy the movies and forget about our problems for a while.
Fortunately we will not find the usual topics that we have seen so many times in series, movies and music videos about life on the outskirts of big cities.
Photography in ‘Chavalas’
As we can read on the Film Academy page:
Marta, Desi, Soraya and Bea, inseparable friends in adolescence, meet again in the neighborhood to relive an authentic and tragicomic friendship. A reality that will force them to face those adolescents who were and the women they want to be. Almost without realizing it, they will help each other make important decisions in their lives. The passage of time and how different they are will not be an excuse for their friendship to prevail over everything else.
The protagonist, Vicky Luengo (‘Anti-riot’) loses her job and has to return to her parents’ house. She is a photographer and has not succeeded. Apparently it has changed and you can no longer see part of the neighborhood.
But he has no choice but to accept it and get back up. She, who believed that she was going to eat the world, it seems that It is difficult for her to accept working as a wedding, baptism and communion photographer in the store of a character played by José Mota.
From what is guessed in the trailer they enter, in a comedy key, in many of the facets of photography, such as the difficulty of succeeding, the difficult cross of projects and viewings or the world of weddings, baptisms and communions.
A new comedy with photographers
It seems that it is closer to that wonder that was ‘Neighborhood’ (1998) or ‘The ball’ (2000) than to that series that came after ‘7 lives’, ‘Aida’.
It is the first film by Carol Rodríguez Colás. In fact, after reading an interview in the magazine ‘Fotogramas’, we came across a film that throws a lot of notes from his life. He was born and raised in the Cornellá neighborhood. He graduated in Audiovisual Communication and has won awards with his photographic series, dedicated to life in the neighborhood.
In fact the script of the film is signed by his sister Marina, which makes this film an inexhaustible source of memories for those who were born outside the center of big cities. And by the way, a good way to look at photography differently …
Because there is nothing so sad as not being able to laugh at yourself … And for many of those who go with the camera on their shoulders it will be a good reason not to take themselves so seriously. On September 3 I will try to be next to a box office to be happy.