Rescue distance, The expected film by Claudia Llosa, opens on wednesday October 13 on Netflix. The film by the Peruvian director, who has confessed that her training at the School TAI It has been basic in her professional development, it involves a deep reflection on the interconnection of love and fear of motherhood.
The film Rescue distance participated in the official section of the San Sebastian Festival, where Claudia Llosa had a meeting with school students TAI. During the talk, the filmmaker delved into the meanings that are hidden in the work.
“The rescue distance that the film talks about”, assured Claudia Llosa, “It is towards ourselves, as mothers. He talks about what is the balance in motherhood. A maternity that has to be reformulated, hopefully at the same speed as the one at which we are reformulating ourselves as a gender, as a society, in which we are changing the perspective of the feminine”. Indian.
The film falls within a genre in which mix intrigue and drama. The protagonist, Amanda, spends the holidays in an Argentine town with her daughter Nina de ella. Concerned at all times for the well-being of the girl, she calculates at all times the "rescue distance to protect her”. However, he soon discovers that things are not as they seem.
Where to see Rescue distance?
Rescue distance It is the first film by Claudia Llosa distributed by Netflix. From Wednesday, October 13, it can be seen on the streaming platform. In parallel, Rescue distance It has also been released in theaters for those who prefer to see the latest of Claudia Llosa's films on the big screen.
Starring María Valverde y Dolores Fonz, Claudia Llosa has explained to the students of the School TAI that the film supposes a continuity in the themes that he deals with in his work, but with certain nuances: “This film collected many of the themes that I have worked on in my films, but it did so in a different twist and allowed me to play with many elements that I was interested in working with, such as magical thinking, ancestry or gender”.
The film is based on the book of the same name by the Argentine author Samantha Schweblin. "It put me in a very new place from the experience of having to share material with such an important and imposing author and, at the same time, to trust." Claudia Llosa explained. Because, with the support of Samantha Schweblin's text, Rescue distance has allowed the Peruvian filmmaker “construct a discourse that was suggestive, that did not impose, that opened, that did not close, that at the same time was beautiful, attractive and tense".
To rescue distance, Netflix can be an important boost for its diffusion, since it reaches a large number of viewers who will enjoy the 93 minutes of the movie.
Director Claudia Llosa
Training in Madrid has been the gateway to the cinema of Claudia Llosa. She herself has remembered this important time as the one she offered her "a chance to dream".
"My time at this school gave me the opportunity to live the experience of studying a career that until now I had not even dreamed of, so it is a very important place for me", remember.
“I always thought that I was going to work in advertising, cinema did not exist in my life and in Peru it was much more difficult. I think that the formative stage is a very nice place to be now ”, explained Llosa, who pointed out that "it is important to dare to go where one really wants, see where the attention is going to be placed, determine what is important, pay attention, make decisions and not be distracted by things that perhaps are not what one or one really wants. That balance, that rescue distance with ourselves, is going to be exercised, it is going to be seen in a very physical way and it is going to be felt very strongly in many moments of decisions that are made”.
In the talk he shared with students from the University School of Arts TAI, Llosa offered numerous advice and insisted on the importance of taking advantage of the formative stage. "There is something that opens from a place of trust, it is an act of faith, look for it yourselves, do not wait for someone else to give it to you, even if you fail, try. If we give the other that power over ourselves, we are lost."He said.
Other Claudian movies
The premiere of Rescue distance on Netflix is a great excuse to take a tour of other Claudia Llosa films. A career in which your arrival in Madrid in 2001 to study the master Script at School TAI It was a turning point.
His first movie was madeinusa (2006), which served as a magnificent letter of introduction for the public and critics, receiving various awards at the Malaga Film Festival, the Mar del Plata or Rotterdam Film Festival, among others.
However, he achieved great international success with his next film, La teta asustada, which won the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, was Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Film and won the Goya award for the best Spanish-American film.
Since then, Claudia Llosa's films have aroused growing interest, as could be seen in her first project in English, Don't cry, fly, starring Hollywood stars like Jennifer Connelly or Cillian Murphy or the recent Rescue distance.
Critics of "Rescue Distance"
Since its presentation at the San Sebastián Film Festival, Rescue distance had a severe allergic great reception by specialized critics. Elsa Fernández Santos defined it in El País like a "disturbing horror movie without horror”, while the journalist from El Mundo Luis Martínez pointed out that it is about “a sleepwalking and magnetic fable about all the fears of the world".
Pepa Blanes, from Cadena Ser, for her part, highlighted how difficult it is to adapt the novel Rescue distance, by Samantha Schweblin, to the cinema and how well Claudia Llosa has done it. “It was not easy to adapt a short novel like Samantha Schweblin's, with a voiceover and with all the dreaminess or almost magical realism that a literary story possesses. However, Llosa manages to do it in an extraordinary way".
Claudia Llosa's romance with film criticism seems to continue with Rescue distance. Undoubtedly, a lot has to do with the filmmaker's ability to show everyday elements such as motherhood with a different vision. “A maternity that has to be reformulated hopefully at the same speed that we are reformulating ourselves as a gender, as a society, in which we are changing the perspective of the feminine.either", manifested.
