the of embodies it could be the kitchen of any of our grandmothers. She is the protagonist of ‘rice and rabbit‘, the short film that Alejandro Cerón has just premiered at the Malaga Festival.
Recorded by his sister’s grandson while he was preparing food, this simple gesture hides a whole universe: that of traditions, family relationships and life on a slow fire.
Is customs in its purest form and from something so conventional arises this short presented at the Malaga Film Festival that claims listening to it as a revolutionary act -“Today I think it’s difficult to listen because of so much encouragement”, maintains its director- and that it values the empathy of an entire generation.
Its naturalness is what engages and what our cinema needs: Guillermo Fesser found it in Candida and it also has julita, protagonist of ‘Many children, a monkey and a castle’. In her case, her son recorded it for 15 years and it took two to edit the documentary that won the Goya in 2018.
Sincere women, like the daddy by Miguel Ángel Muñoz, to whom the cinema is giving a loudspeaker so that we learn from them, so that we return to life over a slow fire and so that we understand why cooking rice with rabbit is the least of it.
Source: Lasexta
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