Rita Moreno reina en Sundance su su documental “Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It”

Los Angeles. Rita Moreno fue la reina hoy del Festival de Sundance, la cita más importante del cine independiente, con “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It”, un documental sobre las luces y sombras de la vida de la laendenda latina que ha dirigido la puertorriqueña Mariem Pérez Riera.

Moreno, who is one of only 16 people in the whole story with an “EGOT” (winners of at least one Emmy, one Grammy, one Oscar and one Tony), took part in the star of this documentary which, like the rest Sundance programming this year, virtually debilitating the pandemic.

“You have to think about what Brent Miller (one of the documentary producers) has come up with with this idea”, confessed in the posterior colloquium to the “premiere”.

“But one day I decided to do it, the next thing I wanted to do was tell him the most honorable thing to do. This is the intention, this is the objective. Some times it would be very difficult to be as French as you would have planned, but I would think that I think: ‘Sean las preguntas que sean, tengo que responderlas com mejor pueda’. And it means that tenia will be sincere ”, detail.

For his part, Pérez Riera submits that in this film only aspiraban to retract the public facet of Moreno.

“Queríamos musrar el ser humano. For us it is very important that we open our eyes. And our way of doing it has to do with a style of ‘true cinema’ ”, apuntó.

In this sense, the filmmaker destroys that Moreno appears in the room with his make-up, leading his car, following the house through a long workload or preparing the design.

“We want to show a woman who is first and foremost a woman and who is a star”, aseguró.

Sobrevivir in Hollywood

Of its origins in Puerto Rico to its impressive triumph in the world of spectacle passing through its New York Legacy showing a niece, “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It” Explore the Oscars of the Oscar Winner by ” West Side Story ”(1961), but also the most gloomy and turbulent reincarnations of its life.

For example, Moreno hable here about the sexual acoustics that joven has seen in the cinematographic industry and also related to his agent in Hollywood the violin.

The camouflage of the family is full of obstacles and obstacles for Moreno as women and also as Latin, and it is true that there is a flurry of racist prejudices and studies that are the study of stupid and repulsive stereotypes.

“I hope all the people who have experienced discrimination and prejudice against their race or gender (…) find this inspiration inspiring”, dijo Pérez Riera.

Pero the documentary, which does not olvida the turbulent romance of Moreno with Marlon Brando ni su no tan idílico matrimonio como parecía con Leonard Gordon, also mira with humor and much sympathy for an absolutely brilliant career, in addition to an artist’s line of vitality to the point of completing 90 years, and record the same shape in the facet as activist in the bulk of the decades.

In this homage to Moreno do not miss the stars.

Eva Longoria, Morgan Freeman, Gloria Estefan, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Norman Lear, Whoopi Goldberg, Héctor Elizondo o Justina Machado his solo algunas de las voces de “Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It”.

And if you say yes to a son, then Moreno will give it to the court.

For 89 years, I have been here, my brain is working (…), I have a documentary about my life, I have a new version about ‘West Side Story’ (directed by Steven Spielberg and it will be released in December). . “, enumeró.

“Now he is very ingenious, he is one of the most ingenious people with 89 years who knows. I have a gorra, tenia habérmela puesto hoy, que dice: ‘Hasta este momento nunca había sido tan burgemeester como ahora’. And I love it ”, bromeo.