The film critic Carlos Boyero publishes a kind of memoirs in ‘I don’t know if I explain myself’ (Espasa), in which he compiles his artistic and life philias and phobias and in which he also ensures that They will “bury him without ever having voted”, even though he was “tempted” to vote for Podemos.
“15-M seemed like something very nice and very necessary to me and, for a moment, I believed the message of Podemos, which was its representative. But it was like in the movies, when you go there you stay paralyzed and say ‘no, man, the same thing as always is going to happen,’ the journalist explained in an interview with Europa Press, who celebrates not having awarded the vote for the then formation of Pablo Iglesias because he would have “repented.”
Boyero has assured that he is aware of living in a “very unfair world and that it always has been.”but maintains that he will not vote for any political party because He does not believe “anyone”, despite sympathizing with left-wing ideology. Nor does the current President of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, whose political actions seem “frivolous” to him.
In this sense, he explained that it seems that “Anything” that goes outside the line set by the Government is considered “fachosphere.” “But there must be a lot of people there, more and more, because the sides are so fixed that if you are not from this one, you are from the other,” he lamented.
ALMODÓVAR, “A DISHONEST GUY”
In his book, written with the collaboration of journalist Borja Hermoso, Boyero dedicates a chapter to his well-known feud with film director Pedro Almodóvar, describing the filmmaker as “expendable” and a “dishonest” guy. However, Boyero is not able to say if the negative criticism of the author of ‘Hable con ella’ has been what has caused “the most problems” in his career..
“Let’s say that everything negative, in general, has caused me the same problems. I arouse many affections and, from time to time, scandals, but to say exclusively what I think. That doesn’t mean that’s the truth, because it’s something very relative,” she explained.
In this sense, he understands that these “problems” are generated both by writing about cinema and by writing about life and that when someone is “annoyed”, it is because they do not agree with a bad review. “There’s always someone upset, except when I say that everything seems fine to me. Awesome, isn’t it?”he ironized.
“DOUBTS” WITH THE ‘METOO’
Asked about the ‘metoo’ in the cinema, claims to have “many doubts” about its usefulness, in addition to confirming that he does not know of any case in the Spanish sector. Boyero also advocates that when these cases occur, they be reported, instead of giving a version in the media.
“If these people feel violated or defiled by power, the first thing these women should do is file a complaint. And let the law investigate and decide. But talking about it… I think they are doing atrocious things, it’s all very confusing and very dangerous.“, he defended, while regretting situations such as those experienced by the filmmaker Woody Allen or the actor Kevin Spacey – both exonerated by the courts of the accusations received -.
At seventy years old, Boyero admits that he does not know what future awaits him, although he does not see himself writing. “I practically don’t go out, I spend my life locked up in my house, which is not paradise, but I have books and I have movies: that is my refuge and what accompanies me these days“, it is finished.