A “magnetic attraction”, a “beast”, the “ambassador of the national star system”, the “greatest”, the “pharaoh“. There is no lack of adjectives or qualifiers to define what was and who was Lola Floresthat on a day like today I would fulfill 100 years.
“He called himself Lola from Spain. That it was like saying ‘I am the representative of Spain'”, says Jaime Iglesias de Gamboa, journalist and film historian. “She is a strong woman, who makes decisions, who asks for forgiveness”, defines the professor at the Carlos III Alejandro Melero “That authenticity, that way of speaking, of not pretending,” highlights the journalist and film critic Lucía Tello Díaz.
Although at the time it came to be read as a symbol of Francoism, years later other readings of his figure. There was also a reading queer, she herself said that “the sissies” loved her very much. And also feminist.
“The new generations see in Lola Flores an exotic animalan anachronistic character who did not respond to the times in which he lived”, defends Carlos Barea, coordinator of the book ‘Flores para Lola’.
“Permission was given to make an event emerge on stage,” says Fernando López, bailaor and philosopher.
Irreverent, hypnotic, fascinating… Today it has become a pop icon. She herself said it, “I’m from another planet”, in her television appearances that helped launch her to stardom.
May this centenary serve to deny that headline in the New York Times that she neither sang nor danced. Something, they explain, that she possibly invented herself. But this anniversary will serve to know a very interesting part of her work.
Source: Lasexta
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