Película Searching for Casal wants to attend the Oscars 2021 (Photo: Julián Casal – Instagram)
Searching for Casal, the film of the Cuban director Jorge Luis Sánchez, is one of the 93 films that will be the official nomination in the category “Best film in foreign language” in the Oscars 2021.
According to official media information, the Cuban film is part of the nominees and its number will be revealed on February 9, when the 15 official candidates for the Academy’s prestigious award will be announced.
Searching for Casal The official nomination between different rivals in the area and throughout the world will be disputed. Against the ever-increasing proportions of Europe, the Sanchez film competes with La llorona (Guatemala), Vacío (Ecuador), El olvido que seremos (Colombia), Mis 500 loko’s (Dominican Republic) y The sonambulos (Argentina).
Off Searching for Casal, from a very personal perspective, the Cuban director discusses the personal and creative life of this modernist poet of the Isla.
It is protagonized by Yasmani Guerrero, and in his repertoire also includes artists from the tales of Yadier Fernández, Blanca Rosa Blanco, Armando Miguel Gómez and Marlon López, among other artists.
Guerrero narrated the official media the traverses that vivió to investigate about the life and work of the artist and of the allies, his interpretation.
This implies concocting some friends of the poet and all coinciding with the great sensibility and neurosis that characterizes the artist. It also means that this character does not look for complaints, on the contrary, pretends that the public identifies with the reality that characterizes this literary figure.
Searching for Casal is another possibility, this year, to find a space in the nomination for one of the most important awards of the international cinematographic ambition.
The only Cuban film that has received such honor is Fresa y Chocolate, by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, in 1995. Carrying out this, many of them he intended to do nothing he could.
This audiovisual production was also selected as one of the 16 Ibero-American cents that Compete by the best movie in the extraterrestrial film category of the 35th edition of the Spanish Goya Awards.
The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences in Spain publishes among its list of candidates, which is likely to also compete with largometries of a dozen dozen countries, including Argentina, Mexico and Portugal.
You are solo con estas nominaciones, the protagonist actor Searching for Casal Emotional refrain that “a movie that costs us so much and so long we hope to run for the Goya, is a prize; I am happy for the team, for all the people involved, for Jorge Luis Sánchez, who passed many years behind the project, and for the poet Julián de Casal ”.