‘Who prevents it’ won four awards at the San Sebastian Festival for its immersive portrait over almost four hours of a group of adolescents
Jonás Trueba (Madrid, 1981) is tired of only talking about young people when the bottle comes up. “I wanted to show those images that are not in the media or in the series, where they tend to be spectacular all the time,” says Fernando Trueba’s son, who with ‘Who prevents it’ became the moral winner of the Festival San Sebastian: the film won, among other awards, the Silver Shell for the best secondary performance for a cast of kids with no experience as actors and the Feroz of the press.
And all this with a tape that lasts 220 minutes and that its author wants to be seen in theaters, structured in three parts with two five-minute intermissions. Trueba has spent five years collecting the reflections of adolescents, before and after confinement, in ‘Who prevents it’, which takes its title from a Rafael Berrio song. It takes elements of the documentary and fiction to achieve an immersive experience that allows us to accompany them in the classroom, on a spree or in the privacy of their love games.
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