Comillas, (EFE).- Twelve years ago the film “Cousins” by filmmaker Daniel Sánchez Arévalo was released and Comillas, the town that was converted into a film set for two months, has now decided to name a viewpoint after this film director so as not to forget what it has meant for the municipality.
With views of the Cantabrian Sea as if one were inside the film and one of the protagonists, Comillas opens a new viewpoint on the Paseo del Muelle, between the port and the beach and next to the fish market where several of the scenes in this film were filmed comedy that earned two Goya nominations.
Accompanied by his relatives, including his father, the illustrator José Ramón Sánchez, the Madrid film director has inaugurated this viewpoint under the watchful eye of fifty people who have come to see how the distinctive plaque was unveiled.
“For me this becomes a lifetime contract, which I already had but even more so, as long as I can come here to shoot in Cantabria, Comillas in particular, because that’s where I feel comfortable”, he assured the filmmaker.
The event started with a few words from the Cantabrian Tourism Minister, Javier López Marcano, and the mayoress of Comillas, Teresa Noceda, whom Sánchez Arévalo interrupted to state that he is “Cantabrian by blood” and that he was born in Madrid “by accident”, which has drawn the applause of the public.
After assuring that this tribute is “too much” for him, Sánchez Arévalo explained that when he wrote the script for “Cousins”, he did it without thinking of a specific place but that it should have a port, a beach, an old town and a mansion.
When he began to locate these possible places, because it was clear that he was going to shoot it in Cantabria, he thought that he would never find a place that would bring all this together until he arrived in Comillas and it “changed his life” because there he had everything he had imagined in his head.
“From then on it was what I consider the most beautiful filming of my life, but not just me, all the actors keep repeating to me that they have never had such a beautiful experience as the one we lived here for two months,” he highlighted. the filmmaker.
“I know that I will end up dragging my daughter and my partner to live in Cantabria because we are much happier here,” he added.
Although the film takes place in summer, filming took place from May to June because in the summer the population of Comillas goes from 2,000 to around 20,000 people and it would have been impossible at an operational level, explained the director.
As an anecdote, the shooting team had the detail of inviting people to a “sardinada”.
Celia Aguero Pereda