What is it to be Peruvian? How does one look? “Until we meet again”, a Peruvian film that has been a success on Netflix, has brought to the fore a new debate after the actress Stephanie Cayo has been cataloged by a Mexican media as “Andean woman”.
On “Grade 5″, Rene Gastelumendi talked to the playwright Eduardo Adrianzen on the criticism of the film Bruno Ascenzo.
– What about “Until we meet again”? What disturbs and dislocates us?
Disclaimer. I belong to the medium, I am a friend of those involved, I know the people who have made the film. I’m not going to criticize the film because we colleagues have a rule and that is that when we have to criticize something about our colleague, we do it in private, never in public.
– Why do you think it shakes us, disturbs us so much that they are white protagonists and that they call a white woman an Andean woman?
That “Andean woman” came out in a report by Vogue de México, it did not appear in Peru. It is a qualification of another country.
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– Sure, but why this resistance to being called that?
Obviously, the country touches the most delicate fiber, which is the issue of racism, the perception of the other that is oneself, it touches how they look at you, consider you and, it is true, people are bothered, it hurts.
That magazine, that qualifier generated a kind of springs of ‘why do they call it that if it’s not like that?’, ‘why do they think that we Peruvians are like that?’. And if you notice, it leads (towards) ‘they call her that and then they think that Peruvians are white and blonde’. She puts together a mental zaperoco.
It is true, in Peruvian society there is discrimination and, apart from any other element, Tondero It is a company that in some way has always capitalized on this annoyance of a large sector of the people, regarding the imaginary that Peru offers, and it is a way of making cinema exactly the same as another country in the world that tries to make an industry.
– Why bother?
Netflix He has been buying quite interesting Peruvian products. “Altarpiece, “The last bastion”, films that the public considers interesting, cultural, that give an image of Peru that they want to give, that they like a lot.
– But this is the first time you invest and produce
It bothers them that the first paid production of Netflix, that is, that Netflix has put money is this. It starts from a totally absurd premise for communicators. Netflix is an archi-ultra-mega capitalist company, it is a gigantic transnational streaming company that produces what it sells.
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