Jaime de Armín crowned the prodigious decade that the 80s were for bullfighting with Juncal (1988), more than a series about the world of bullfighting, the picture of its essences, codes and values, even its noise and its smells. Even that was captured with a magical realism that crossed the then small screen.
The planet taurus was for Armin the Colombia of Garca Mrquez. They didn’t invent anything, they really were like that, just as they were told. Paco Rabal was not Rabal again, but Juncal forever, the rogue, the feel, the bullfighter made of defeats, the gentleman knight of bullfighting, also in hunger, love, pella and dignity. Good morning, my queen! Did you sleep well? And I’m glad, I greeted the Maestranza in the mornings.
We repeat through the streets the Juncalian turns like ours, jodo fumeque, I take note, bitch life and Bfalo!, of course: Tell me about the Puerto de Santa María, Bfalo, to refresh my memory. AND We hummed the pasodoble composed by Vainica Doble (do formed by Gloria van Aerssen and Carmen Santonja, Armin’s wife’s sister, Elena Santonja) with whom he would have liked to go around the Goya de Honor arena in 2014: Juncal is a bullfighter / ms artist that Belmonte/ braver than Espartero.
have the character Bojilla’s imprint, Pepe Teruel’s influenceChenel’s bohemian, Luis Fuentes Bejarano’s bullfighter walking through Seville. And the genius of the Black Popefounder of the Bienvenida dynasty, whose life Luis de Armin, the filmmaker’s father, biographed in Life and novel of a bullfighter. In that fountain, and in the old welcome gatherings on the old street of General Mola 3, Jaime de Armín drank, who became intimate with Antonio Bienvenida to the point of dedicating the first chapter of Juncal to him: To Antonio Welcomebrother, teacher, great bullfighter, this Juncal who without you would not have been born.
Jaime de Armin put the bullfighting universe on its feet like no one else. He was not in the cinema, nor among the references of Bullfighter!by Carlos Velo, nor in Afternoon of bullsby Ladislao Vadja, a work that approached the unattainable 7 hours of Juncalthe magical realism of bullfighting.