Nacho Vigalondo directs ‘Daniela Forever’ and reflects on how “people of opposite ideologies live in different worlds”

After passing through the Sitges Festival last October, ‘Daniela Forever’ arrives at the Salas this Friday, February 21. With death and the difficulty to overcome the duel as a backdrop, The first feature film that Nacho Vigalondo directs from the premiere of ‘Colossal’ in 2016 Play with a confusion between reality and fiction. Something that, according to the director, already happens in a certain way in the world in which we live.

“When you watch a great confrontation on television with people of opposite ideologies, you can see that they live in different worlds“, Vigalondo explains in an interview with Europa Press in which he reflects on how in these times of polarized thought, hate in social networks and ‘fake news’ control is being lost to elucidate what is real and what is not.”They don’t even share the same news. It depends on the social network in which you are, you do not even get two opinions about the same news, the news is already different“He said.

As an example, the Spanish director and screenwriter remembered that Donald Trump had suggested a couple of weeks ago that Washington’s plane crash was due to “diversity” policies and inclusion of the previous government. “No one knew who the pilot was. No one knew who the victims were. And it is disturbing, you have the cinematographic adaptation before the real event is explored“, he says.

Vigalondo qualifies as “madness” that the first thing the US president did before a tragedy of this magnitude was not “to offer their condolences” to the victims but “blame the pilot’s skin color.” In any case, for the filmmaker, “The fact that it was said created a solid reality“, credible for the middle of the country.

On the other hand, Aura Garrido and Nathalie Poza, two of the main names of the cast of ‘Daniela Forever’, also alert how the limits of truth and reality are being blurred. Although in their case the two actresses point out other types of hazards such as artificial intelligence and how “can dehumanize us.”

“This film shows you a human being with all its shadows, its defects, its fears, our inability to love, our inability to live, to let go, to accept death, the passage of time“Poza explained, defending the need for cinema now more than ever.

Garrido also observes the human need to “escape reality because we do not know how to deal with it”, and do it in different ways, either through substances or technology. “And there is something that fascinates me a lot about the technological advances that is obsession all the time because that technology allows us to create a parallel reality in which we can control things And be an orderly reality that will not surprise us, “he reflects.

The interpreter points to “a second life” generated, in which “there is no pain” or this “does not terrify so much”, something that, as ‘Daniela Forever’ reflects, is still false because, finally and Cabo “Life happens.” “In spite of what you want and what you are looking for, life happens and all you do is try to escape and stop living, but in the end you are going to give you from Bruces with what you are alive“He says.

A goodbye to Itziar Castro

‘Daniela Forever’ has a small role of Itziar Castro, who died last December, thus constituting one of her last on -screen appearances, something that also resonates with the theme of the film, which precisely deals with the duel and loss. “It is beautiful in a sad way that tells us goodbye with a movie about pain“, Vigalondo observes. In this way, the director revealed that he feels” lucky “of having been able to count on her in the cast, although in a” strange way “due to the sadness of having lost it.

Henry Golding, who stars in the film, points out that he only coincided with Castro on the filming set for a couple of days, but praised his “energy”, which is reflected in the film. “Certainly gave more energy than he received“He said.

Directed and written by vigalondo, ‘Daniela Forever’ He tells the story of Nicolas (Golding), who loses his girlfriend Daniela in an accident and that shortly after he is invited to be part of a clinical trial that will allow him to control his dreams, so that he can dream of her every night and resume the relationship.

The film is shot in English and alternates digital scenes with others achieved with Betacam cameras, thus differentiating the dream world from the reality of the character. Next to the aforementioned Golding, Garrido, Poza and CastroThey complete the distribution of fiction Beatrice Grannò and Rubén Ochandiano, among others.