The 3 best films by the great Javier Cámara

It seems to me that Spanish cinema is more democratic, more adjusted to the reality of interpretive virtues. Comparing it to Hollywood, I mean. Because in Yankeeland, if you are handsome you can learn to act on the fly, meanwhile it dazzles the viewer physically while the special effects and easy plots make up that blockbuster film made in the USA. I don't mean to say that there aren't enormous actors and actresses out there, but there are many more mediocre ones mired in the inertia of pharaonic productions that bury everything.

Without a doubt, the thing is that sometimes those improvised actors taken from modeling don't always become actors. While an actor in Spain like Javier Cámara ends up being in the highest rank of him, demonstrating a chameleonic capacity born with that strength of the vocation, of the cradle actor.

We pissed on him in the series "7 Lives", but as happens with every good actor, other types of challenges soon knocked on his doors and the big screen welcomed him with open arms. In the end it is about making films of all kinds, not only super-productions of posturing and winking from the hero on duty but also more realistic, more credible, more human works from the empathetic capacity of the actor in the skin of any protagonist extracted with rabid verisimilitude from our real world.

Then other types of more fantastic, horror or comic scenarios may come. But then the actor is already tanned and everything happens with greater emotion. A toast to great actors like Javier Cámara.

Top 3 recommended films by Javier Cámara

Living is easy with closed eyes

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For me, the thing about road movies has won me over from the start. The thing is that if we add a character like Antonio, transmitting more in his silences than in the dialogues, the thing is round. It seems that, apart from the landscapes, everything in life passes by for the good English teacher. A guy determined to meet John Lennon as the most necessary of the world's pseudo-religious pilgrimages.

With a Quixotic point, our Antonio is looking at different circumstances in a life that seems to move with centripetal force on him. Nothing better than being an open guy, a bohemian point and confident in the existence of redoubts of humanity especially in the youth that he observes but that he no longer has, to constantly relearn, at every kilometer and stops traveled...

In 1966 a John Lennon in the midst of an existential crisis that leads him to think of definitively leaving the Beatles and convinced of being able to embark on the career of actor, arrives in Almería to shoot under the orders of Richard Lester an anti-war film: how i won the war.

Antonio is an unconditional fan of the quartet of Liverpool and English teacher in a humble school in Albacete, which uses the songs of the Beatles to teach English, she decides to take the trip to meet him and make an unusual request.

On the route, he crosses paths with Belén (Natalia de Molina), who has escaped from the murky confinement to which she is subjected by her family and the social environment of the country, since she is 20 years old, but carries a past of that flees Both will encounter Juanjo (Francesc Colomer), a 16-year-old teenager, who has run away from home in the midst of youthful rebellion and confrontation with his father (Jorge Sanz), conservative, not very tolerant and not very akin to change. Freedom and dreams are the central axes of the journey in which they will not only find the singer, but also themselves. The result of that captivating adventure is the theme Strawberry Fields Forever, a theme in the that Lennon remembers his childhood.

Suso's tower

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Humor, well presented, is capable of touching us to the deepest. Of course, the starting point of this film is precisely the opposite. The deceased friend to whom the rest of his lifelong colleagues are ready to pay their due tribute.

Things between friends are usually crazy and fun…, or at least in the memory of shared youth to a greater extent. That's why Suso's goodbye together with the tribute due to his passing through the world is partly a reason for the party. The paths of life are unpredictable as time goes by and the oaths and notions of eternal friendship are undone in part as an infidelity with oneself. Hence the playful determination by which this film moves us. It may be a vain attempt to return to being young for a few days or perhaps the feeling of debt to Suso weighs more as a bill to be paid by each one with himself.

When is an Asturian who emigrates to Argentina to search for a new life. Ten years later he returns to his land, the Asturian Mining Basin to the funeral of an old friend, Suso. The film narrates the reunion with his family and friends and how Cundo wishes to fulfill Suso's last dream. The feature film is a tribute to friendship. And especially to friendship at an age when you are not so sure why you should continue to be friends with your childhood friends.

El olvido que seremos

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Seeing the poster for this movie, while I was getting ready to go into the room to see another one, I couldn't help but sign it up for the next visit to the cinema. The collected title of the novel by Hector Abad Faciolince, accompanied by a photograph that gives off pure melancholy of the good kind, won me over immediately. I was able to throw myself looking at the large poster for about ten minutes, as if wanting to enter the scene. And yes, when you watch the movie you end up looking out onto that patio with its stone fountain...

The film is set during the violence that Colombia experienced in the 80s and much of the 90s, a time of the great drug lords and paramilitary groups who, with the support of political and military sectors, silenced the voices of those people criticism from the establishment (human rights defenders, university professors, trade unionists, members and sympathizers of leftist political movements and parties).

That time serves as a backdrop to recount the life of Hector Abad Gómez from the loving and proud vision of his son Hector Abad Faciolince, as a kind of tribute to his deceased father, showing the unconditional love of a father to a son and vice versa, as an almost supernatural bond that binds those involved in a contract that is only broken with the death of one of them.

It is a love that grows over the years between his father and him, becoming a narrative that brings up the life, work and death of his father, of the deep pain that a country that was sinking in the darkest of its hours caused him. , violating and massacring anyone who gave their voice in protest.

The film is understandable to the extent that it highlights the stereotypes of a tragic time that has not yet been fully explored or explained, using as a source the idealized vision that a son has of his murdered father.

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