| CINEMA CONFERENCE Inés Paris: “The Cinema is a vehicle to transmit new values.” This film director claims that a good film must be original and bold. JUAN NIETO (14/07/2006) Inés Paris, director and scriptwriter, offered a conference yesterday for the University of Oviedo’s summer courses, under the title Heroes and heroines in the cinema, where she related her personal experience with movies and said “I have had to fight against the traditional stereotypes in the cinema”. Paris, author of films as 'My Mother Likes Women', belongs to the last generation of young film directors whose work has become a hollow in the difficult world of the seventh art. Paris assured that it is very difficult to make cinema in Spain “because we do not have an industry, and the problem is in breaking with the impositions of the market”. The author of the successful film 'Semen, a love history' claimed that “every film is a pact between the industrial reasons and the artistic reasons”. Although she does not come from the world of cinematography --she studied Philosophy-- her reference film directors are Ann Lee “for her sensitivity, aesthetic beauty and originality at the time of making films”; and the great Billy Wilder, “whenever I see his films, they seem so wonderful to me”. Paris decided to follow a solitary path after co-directing several films with Daniela Fejerman. In January Miguel and William, will be released, a XVIIth century comedy, original and bold “deep and with a different reading”. The film narrates the life of two geniuses Cervantes and Shakespeare but with a different image from them. “The film shows a funny side of that period of time”. Ines Paris claimed that Miguel and William “is the best thing than I have done”, therefore, I am very happy and content”. The author explained that a good film is the one that tells a good story, “it is original, amusing and presents a surprising vision of reality; it moves you and it makes you reflect”. Is the cinema world completely masculine? The director and scriptwriter indicated that “it is not as much as the world in which we live” where “authoritarian” values predominate and where the first victims are men. The idea of Paris is that through cinema and films those values can be changed. “The cinema is a fundamental vehicle to transmit new values”. Now that it seems that people go less to the cinemas, Paris proposes to look for formulas that attract the public with films that are “original, bold and moving”. Translated by Mariela from - http://www.lavozdeasturias.es/noticias/noticia.asp?pkid=284396 |