Berlanga Year, Spanish cinema, party. Valencia had to be the city in charge of hosting the Goya 2022. Curiously, this year, in the city of the director of ‘Welcome Mr. Marshall’, an “International Goya” has also been given (and will give) a lot to talk about . The night was spread out and quite boring.
The gala that never ends
It is difficult to write the chronicle of a ceremony where there has been nothing especially remarkable. He had no rhythm, but in a peculiar way, as if he didn’t really care if things were more or less fast. people talking basically. Well, that and an alleged covert mobile phone promotion that has caused quite a bit of embarrassment.
The thing started with five of our most recognized actresses (Belén Rueda, Vicky Peña, Charo Lopez, Nawja Niwri and Juana Acosta) handing out a handful of awards right and left, and with that declaration of intent a festival of endless speeches began. Before all that, someone decided that it was a good idea to stress all the pets in the Valencian Community with a unnecessary welcome mascletá. It would almost have been better to drop grains of rice in a helicopter.
When you have Cate Blanchett in front of you and those are the only questions that come to mind 🤦🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️ pic.twitter.com/7B8NDHHgVL
— Twitter bun (@Balnchettispag1) February 12, 2022
The night was leaving awards to ‘The laws of the border’ as well as not wanting the thing, and suddenly Daniel Monzón’s film had 4 Goyas. But perhaps the most striking and least attractive of the night were the comical-claiming intervals in the form of a stale sketch-infomercial. How far are the days of Resines singing rap. Speaking of rap, C. Tangana and Rita Payés added a bit of musical color to a very flat night.
Neither Cate Blanchett’s speech nor that of Mariano Barroso, president of the Academy, nor that of no excited winner will be remembered tomorrow in the morning. Neither the scripted nor the more or less improvised. Although for the benefit of the president I must admit that his speech as an in memoriam was not all bad. All this, attention, without a single commercial break until almost midnight. Something that for once would have been good for all of us.
After the break, Sabina and Leiva made a theme that was very much in keeping with the night before they began to distribute the most serious prizes. Awards that increased the harvest of cabezones de Monzón’s film, which finished with 5 awards, second most awarded film of the night. Fernando León de Aranoa made the best speech up to that moment of the evening, with brevity and clairvoyance, receiving the Goya for best original screenplay for ‘The good boss’. He would later return to the stage to thank the awards for best direction and film.
Little more to remember except the deserved honorary award to José Sacristán, one of the greatest. In general. The presentation, by Nora Navas, was a unbeatable complement to such well-deserved recognition. Thanks to him and to the memory of his eternal legacy, we realize that the night, in the end, was worth it. Nor was Javier Bardem’s speech bad, colossal protagonist of the year of the Spanish film of the year. ‘The good boss’ walks away with six awards; ‘Parallel mothers’, none.