A weekend in Cadaquès, secrets, family (for better and for worse) and plenty of emotional blackmail. All of it, sprinkled with Manel’s music and a cast with surreal moments. “All the characters are sons of bitches,” says the director of ‘House in flames’. The new of Dani of the Order addresses, with a lot of humor, the contradictions of a family that doesn’t know how to love each otherA summer portrait about undervaluing, loving badly and taking for granted the people who love us.
“It is a family of the Catalan bourgeoisie where all the behaviors They are selfish and narcissistic. They love each other, but they love each other badly, as happens in many families,” the filmmaker explains to laSexta. With an ensemble cast and an accurate script, Emma Vilarasau and Alberto San Juan They play separated and ill-advised parents who reunite with their two children at their summer home. The family, as the perfect environment “for a breeding ground for conflicts.”
‘House in flames’ It comes just a decade after ‘Barcelona, summer night’ and is written by four hands by De la Orden and Edu Sola. Filmed in Spanish and Catalan -Alberto San Juan and Macarena Garcia are the Spanish-speaking characters -, the film condenses all the tension in just 35 scenes (a low number compared to other films). “The most complicated thing has been the choral scenes (in which there is room for improvisation), more than the fire scene or the final monologue of the family matriarch,” details Dani de la Orden to laSexta, which highlights the ‘sciatica scene’ as one of the funniest in the movie. You are right.
During that weekend, the family will uncover lies and misery in a choreography of hilarious situations. Special mention for David’s ‘singer-songwriter vein’, played by a brilliant Enric Auquer; or the condom scene, where “they talk about the distortion about who ages better” (men or women), giving rise to a scathing choral debate full of humor.
Contradictory, needy, manipulative…, can this family be saved? “With hours of therapy and a good lawyer, I would like to think so,” says the director of the film, who denounces that mental health “continues to be a private business, with exclusively lucrative ends.” ‘House on Fire’ is coming to theaters; and yes, it almost validates itself as a therapy session.
Source: Lasexta
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