Logroño, (EFE).- The film director Isabel Coixet has affirmed this Saturday that the adaptation that she is shooting in La Rioja of the novel “Un amor”, by Sara Mesa, has “a hair more hope” than the book, for which she believes “still disappoints the readers”, although, as a filmmaker, she needs “the characters to have light”.
Coixet made these statements at the conference offered on March 18 in Logroño, after the screening of his medium-length film “No es tan fría Siberia”, with which he inaugurated the “Utopias” cycle, organized by the Government of La Rioja, in in which its president, Concha Andreu, has also participated.
His adaptation of “Un amor” is not a comedy, but it does have “a subtle touch” of this genre, since he always tries, as far as he can, “to leave a glimmer of light so that the characters who have gone through an incident they have learned something, that it has been worth it and that another life opens up” to them, he acknowledged.
The director has also explained that in the month and a half of filming this film in La Rioja, whose capital, Logroño, will not be the scene of “Un amor”, “many people” have asked her why she shoots in this region, and it is that the novel “happens in an invented place”.
“‘Un amor’, which we hope will be released before the end of 2023 – he said – takes place in a place that is not hostile, it is that in the state of the protagonist, anything is hostile”.
He has also indicated that this film “is going to be interesting and it is going to be talked about because there is a central conflict that is consent.”
The president of La Rioja thanked Coixet for having shared this talk in a “so close and natural way, as you are”, as well as for “being there and seeing things that we, the people of La Rioja, are already used to seeing, but that, when you come with different eyes, you make us appreciate what we have even more”. EFE