Pablo Berger: “I love cinema written with images that becomes a sensory experience”
Robot Dreams reaches commercial screens after premiering at the Cannes Festival and having successfully passed through competitions such as Sitges.
This is the fourth feature film by Bilbao director Pablo Berger (after ‘Torremolinos 73’, ‘Blancanieves’ and ‘Abracadabra’) but it is his first animated film. “Robot Dreams” adapts the graphic novel of the same name by Sara Varon. It is a work told in images, and as Berger explains, he made the decision to transfer it to film because he considers it to be a deeply moving story.
The film aspires to four Goya awards (best animated film, best sound, best editing and best script adapted for Berger himself), and the director considers that they have broken “a glass ceiling” since the usual thing is that only one aspires to awards from the animation section. In addition to the Goya, “Robot Dreams” also has nominations at the Forqué or the Feroz, aspires to be the best animated feature film at the European Film Awards, and looks ahead to the aspiration of the Golden Globes or the Oscars .
With a story about the relationship between a dog and a robot, the film draws on the backdrop of New York in the 80s, a time and place that the director lived in, as he lived in the American city for a decade. It also has the particularity of being a film that, like the comic, is narrated without resorting to dialogue. It is a “Chaplinesque” narrative, explains Berger, which allows allegories to be opened to different readings, and makes it possible for the viewer to finish the film itself.
Berger states that it is his first animated film but that nevertheless there are more points in common than are apparent with respect to live-action cinema. “I thought it would be more difficult for me to adapt,” explains Berger, who has led a team of more than 200 animators. Asked about the relationship between this film and his previous work, he estimates that ‘Snow White’ and ‘Robot Dreams’ are “sister films”, due to their relationship with narration without sound dialogues.
Source: Eitb
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