GOYA 2009: THE ALEX'S BEST MOVIE

It is of ready type a speech as that is marked Alex de la Iglesia realized in the president's role of the Academy in his first intervention in the gala of the Goya. In contrast to his predecessors in the charge, Of the Church it did self-criticism, lowered the smokes of the union (“Waste time that union” was pronouncing later Buenafuente) and it did harangue to work for the sake of the Spanish movies, which was indicated like responsible of his successes and for the first time like culprit of his defeats.

He was a firm, convinced speech and enthusiast, adjectives that reflected during the whole ceremony in the face Of the Church, the same face of the director the day of the premiere of his movie. His movie was, in this occasion, the Awards Goya, the biggest (and more criticized) tool of promotion of the Spanish movies, and the true thing is that the spectacle worked with the precision of his best prizewinners; the event was provided with a good prologue, the most finished development where comedy, musical and exciting drama were going of the hand and an included final plot draft. And quite they without advertizing interruptions.

Well led by Andreu Buenafuente, which left several cutting pearls in the shape of pleasantries (“Missis minister, not down to greet it, because I am scared to lower things ahead his”), the ceremony was lively and very agile. There was elegance and star-system (Pé and Bardem were, Amenabar, Almodóvar, Peace Vega), the habitual achievement mistakes polished off, the television transmission won with the voice in off of Toni Garrido who made up the times died in the collection of awards and the elaborated assemblies were entertained and opportune. The proper gala turned into the star of the night, ahead of his nominated movies.
The awards share-out fitted to the waited with the victory of the prison “Cell 211” of Daniel Monzón and the applause and technical recognition to “Agora“ of Alejandro Amenabar. Only the Goya to Marta Etura and Alberto Amman (couple in “Cell 211”) supposed something of surprise, the first one for his scarce role, the second one for nicking the award from Pablo Pineda, winner of the Conch from Better Actor in San Sebastian for “I Also”. Eight Goyas went to the shop windows of “Cell 211” including those of the Better Director for Monsoon and Better Actor for Luis Tosar and seven "obstructionists" were for “Agora“. The third one in discord was the Argentinian “The Secret of his eyes”, probably the most round of all all that were nominated, rewarded by two Goyas.

Before the competition absence in the battle for the awards, the emotion doses came for other flanks. The Goya of Honor to Antonio Mercero was like a Haberdasher's own movie; a humor pinch, much of humanity, and a strong contrast with the pain and the illness. The presence and the words of his children, the visit of Alex de la Iglesia to the hearth of the director of “The Cabin” and his small speech they caused the same conflicting sensation of happiness, tenderness and grief that were leaving some of his movies and series of television and made to weep for the whole respectable, Big included Wyoming.
Up to this moment the gala was wasting satisfaction and harmony like few ones (his television hearing exceeded 4,5 million spectators), but there was missing a final morello cherry that they were in charge of presenting with big sense of humor the Sardá and Andreu. Pedro, the proud producer of La Mancha, the most universal film maker of our movies, that one that it pushed back to the Academy repeatedly, was hiding for several hours in a hotel room to do presence act in the last award of the night signing the peace with the Academy for astonishment of all the presents. The insistence of Of the Church was the one that led Almodovar to forgetting old quarrels and appearing in scene providing of unit and well-being to our movies. Precisely the same insistence that has managed to make the best ceremony of the Goya of all his history. The insistence that is synonymous of the illusion and the effort of those that the president of the Academy was speaking in his monologue. The insistence that leads to the Spanish movies for the good way.

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