Angélica (una tragedia), Manuel Fernández-Valdes, Spain, 2016, 86' OV
Let’s begin with the people that don’t know Angélica Liddell: Drama literature National Award, Silver Lion in the Theater Biennial of Venezia and one of the most impressive and overwhelming voices-bodies-presences in the international panorama of the theatrical arts: pure strength and pure life. Now, a note with question shape for the people that know Angélica: But, could a film get close and depict a personality like this? Is it possible that an experience that is not in front of the stage with Angélica on it let sense the strength of her presence and work? Is that possible?
It is. This is a film about an art devoted; a film about the hectic relationship between the creation and life. “It is not a film about how an artist rehearses her play but about how she rehearses her life. Alone and in front of a mirror”, explains the director Fernández-Valdés. And everything begins like this: Angélica Lidell is getting ready her next play and Manuel Fernández-Valdés wants to depict her. Liddell has become one of the most important European dramatist and her bet for the autobiographical theater shows even the most intimate pain. A decision that affects the essence of her working way and all the people that work with her. Each of them would decide how far they are able to go to reach her. The director of the film will not be unaware of the experience. Of the Tragedy.
A film about Angélica Liddell: Drama literature National Award, Silver Lion in the Theater Biennial of Venezia and one of the most impressive and overwhelming voices-bodies-presences in the international panorama of the theatrical arts.