Director of “Queer” Alauda Ruiz de azúa collapses “Sundays”

In 2022, Pedro, which is provided for “Lullaby”, was the first appearance of the Alauda Ruiz de Azúa as “the best undoubted for the first time in Spanish cinema for years.” The first series, “QUEER”, won by ARTE, won the Best Award this year in the Mania series, the highest television festival in Europe.

Now, if the enthusiastic reaction of most Spanish auditors is anything that should go through, the “Sunday days” for Ruiz de Azúa (“” Los Domingos) sees that it meets the promise discovered by Almodóvar. With days of the main competition films that still play in Saint Sebastian, the family drama-which will also be a story if this process is cut off Very-sit at the top, president and shoulder among the other competitors to explore the Saint Sebastian Gold shell in the Basque Derio Vasco.

“The title of the movie depends on a paradox. On Sundays were supposed to be a time when a Spanish family gathered at lunch. In her movie, on Sundays a family collapses.

One reason for the dispute is economical. Father Enaki drew a banking loan against his mother’s apartment to support the failed restaurants. There is a small sign that if the family’s grandmother dies, the maite will get a portion of the inheritance.

However, the constructive friction catalyst is Enara, the eldest daughter of Inaki, who begins the movie that pleads to Mate to persuade Inaki to allow her to go in a decline organized by the local Bitanas nuns, which is closed. “Why do you want to silence yourself with a cargo of old women,” asks ñaki.

It turns out that the decline is one step in the “discrimination” process, the spiritual director of Ainara, a shattered young priest explaining to Iki and Maite, where you will learn Ainsara from God – who is already talking to him at times, as she says – what he wants from it. Maite is trying to talk about Ainara about making a decision soon: she must choose the life she wants but not before life lives, and go to university, for example, before choosing.

One of the questions in the film is whether Ainara was deeply injured with the death of her mother, who was deeply religious, and her father’s distance, which led her to search for the warmth or another, the mother is the priority Isabelle, and another father, the father.

“I feel I love him,” Ainara insists. Do not remember that she is loved by her family. When you don’t back, Mait does more radical work.

“This is a volatile, educated film. The textures and colors are repeated in the home of the Ainara and Deir Bitainas family. There are very few shots from the sky, as Ruiz de Aza indicated at a press conference” On Sundays. “

“Sundays” is produced by Movistar Plus+, the largest Spanish SVOD TV operator, as well as Marisa Fernández Armenteros’ Buenapinta Media (“The Mole Agent”), Sandra Hermida AT Colosé Producions (“Society of the SNOW “) (” The Wounded “). The film is sold at the international level by LE Pacte from France, BTEAM Pictures will distribute in Spain, and the film was released on October 14. “

diverse I spoke to Ruiz de Azua before the first world presentation of “Sunday days”.

On Sunday days, a family of liberal Basque is shocked when Annara’s daughter, 17, announces that she is considering becoming an installed nun …

One of the issues in the film is the fragility of tolerance, which is an imaginary tolerance, adopted to avoid conflicts. Real, intimate and real tolerance regarding what others often believe, right? This fragility is largely associated with the weakness or fragility of the family.

It is worth noting that Ainara finds that it is easier to talk to God more than her father.

I started writing “Sundays” because I was interested in the profession of religion, but it became a new way to talk about the adult family world. The family should be a refuge for love, where there is more communication, where things are talked about, and try to understand others … Adults in the movie do not talk about what they really feel, or their real intentions. With the exception of Mait and when it explodes, everything does.

I also talked about the weakness of adolescents …

The film’s tension depends on whether the profession of spiritual, real, authentic, inherent, or provocative is by her family who weakens. I tried to create a space where operation can extract its own conclusions. Is there something that lacks, or a wound, an adult world that leads to looking elsewhere for the shelter, the affection that you do not face at home?

And you suggest that both workers work …

It is complicated. But not all girls who go to a religious secondary school or a decline that ends up with nuns. So although the religious world can push it in this direction, you have the feeling that there is more leadership.

Two sources of emotion in the film is the use of music, and Nick Cave’s “In Army”, used in the movie and the trailer, which Ainara sings in the school chorus, and religious music when Ainara and her friends go to a disk and experience love first. There is a feeling of liturgia from this scene, a feeling of secular Jerusalem …

It is one of my favorite serials. Regardless of its moral and political dilemmas, the film tries to stir a sense of spirituality, a feeling of life, and the search for something more cannot be found in a monastery. I liked the idea that even those of us who are not believers need to believe in something, which could be the family that we create or our partner.