Luis Zahera and the emotion for Carlos Saura support some Goyas that gave up being entertaining

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The presenters had warned Inaki de la Torre y Clara Lake: “We are not funny.” Of course, the Goya gala was not fun, except for very few exceptions, sparks like that of Luis Zahera when he picked up his more than sung award for Best Supporting Actor for his impeccable role as a xenophobic Galician in the beasts, big winner of the night: “I always wanted to kill a Frenchman”he said, emulating the animal he represents in the movie Rodrigo Sorogoyen. He could have said, “I’ve always wanted to kill three-and-a-half-hour galas.”

Inaki de la Torre, in one of his few amusing moments, he stood next to the seat occupied by the Frenchman from the beasts, deserved winner of the best actor award, and asked him: “Are we bored, French?”, emulating Zahera in the film, which has that phrase. I don’t know about French, but they put the audience to sleep.

The Sevillian auditorium suffered a real plague of authorities, which is logical, being in an election year. He went to the Seville capital Pedro Sanchez nothing less than a vice president, Yolanda Diaz, minister of Irene Montero y Maria Jesus Montero and, of course, that of Culture Miquel Iceta They were also feijóo y Moreno Bonilla, accompanied by their wives. It is very good that the cinema is supported but the terrible thing is that, with such a troupe of politicians present, no darts were fired at them, no jokes were thrown at them. Too bad, because it would have been more lively.

It is true that the duel for Carlos Saura forced. Carmen Maura, that he was not days ago in the homage to another genius, Pedro Almodóvar, in The Fiercetook to the Sevillian stage and had some wonderful words for the filmmaker who directed it in the essential Hey Carmela! more than 30 years ago, with which he won one of the 13 awards for that sad vision of the Civil War, still today the second most awarded film in the history of the Goya Awards.

The first half hour was a precious tribute to the filmmaker who died on the eve of the awards and the emotion was on the surface, with his family opening the night to collect the Honorary Goya and read the speech that the colossal director from Huesca had left written before leave at 91 years old. Saura’s widow and children stoically endured a very long applause, with the audience on its feet that did not finish applauding one of the giants of our cinematography.

One of the most beautiful moments of the night occurred when Telmo Irureta he got up in his wheelchair to collect the prize for Best New Actor for his role in Spring consecration, because the person in charge of delivering it was the actress Elena Irureta, aunt of the interpreter. The winner explained that his character is a nod to the sexuality of people with disabilities: “Because we also exist and we also fuck,” he said without mincing words.

Lola Flores It also received its well-deserved tribute, how could it be otherwise, in its centenary and in its Andalusia. After a video with images from some La Faraona movies, she jumped onto the Lolita stage.

The winner of a Goya for Best New Actress (Resentment, 2002), eldest daughter of Pescaílla and the Jerez goddess born a century ago singing Pen, pen pen with real art. Lolita thanked RTVE, Gestmusic and said that in heaven her mother is already dancing sevillanas to Carlos Saura. This woman has an elf.

The colossal humility of Juliette Binoche shines as much as look. The powerful French actress collected her honorary Goya from the hands of Isabel Coixet; the Barcelonan filmmaker is a friend of his and directed it in nobody wants the night eight years ago. The beautiful actress of The English Patient o Chocolat He spoke of the “burning desire” that makes him keep going on the verge of turning 59, 40 in the cinema. After reading the speech she had written and speaking such broken Spanish chic as little hummed the Because you are leaving, the song of Jeanette included in Breeding ravens, subtle tribute to Carlos Saura, the other great protagonist of the night to whom the French star dedicated his award.

I was overjoyed when I heard the name of Laura Galán, the immense actress of little pig that embroiders with her brave interpretation of a young victim of fatphobia that suffers bullyng in his village. Her role has even more merit if we take into account that the age of the winner, extremely elegant in black, is not exactly that of a teenager. In her thirties, Laura Galán has recently become a mother and she declared this Saturday that she hopes that her daughter never suffers attacks like the ones we see in the thriller by Charlotte Pereda.

Fernando Esteso, who turns 78 next week, presented the award for best short. The comedian Maño made a joke about his height (he measures one meter and sixty centimeters) and commented that it was logical that he was commissioned to give the award to the short… Then, more seriously, he recalled another illustrious Aragonese Carlos Saura, and also the other deceased filmmaker recently, the Mallorcan Agustí Villaronga, who directed the veteran comedian with a hand in comedy Loli Tormenta, shot last summer.

Joaquin Sabina y Leyva they took the Goya for the song Feeling it a lot, from the documentary by Fernando Leon de Aranoa about the singer-songwriter, who celebrates his 74th birthday with this gift this Sunday and was not in Seville. It is the first Goya for the man from Jaén and the second for Leyva, who already won in 2017 for La Llamada.

Fernando Méndez Leite, film critic, director and president of the Academy, of course, dedicated the beginning of his speech to his friend Carlos Saura, who he said would be somewhere in the pre-production of his film about the Civil War, which the filmmaker from Huesca had planned for 33 years after Ay Carmela. Leite thanked the President of the Government and the rest of the authorities for his presence, especially Antonio Muñoz, mayor of the Andalusian capital, who welcomes and supports the event once again. Later he gave a “boring” speech, as he himself anticipated, in which he glossed over the situation in the sector. The best thing was the announcement of the creation by the Academy of Elias Querejeta Award on the tenth anniversary of his death. The man from San Sebastian, who died in June 2013, was one of the most important pro-men in our cinema and launched, among others, Carlos Saura oa Fernando Leon de Aranoa, who produced Familyan essential work of our cinema, back in 1996, with Amparo Munoz, Juan Luis Galiardo and Agate Lys. No one is anymore.

The climax that finished off the triumph of the beasts with the award for best film was given by the protagonists of Belle Epoque, the movie of Fernando Trueba who won the Oscar three decades ago: Míriam Díaz Aroca, Penélope Cruz, Ariadna Gil and Penélope Cruz, together, delivered the Goya. The last three are undoubtedly established actresses who represent the best of female acting.