Film Looking for Casal wants to win the Oscar Awards 2021 (Photo: Julián Casal – Instagram)
Looking for a couple, the film by Cuban director Jorge Luis Sánchez, is one of 93 films competing for the official nomination in the “Best Foreign Language Film” category at the 2021 Academy Awards.
According to information from official media, the Cuban film is one of the nominees and its name will be announced on February 9, when the 15 official candidates for the prestigious Academy Award are announced.
Looking for a couple the official nomination is disputed between several rivals in the area and around the world. Not counting the always strong proposals from Europe, Sánchez’s film competes The crying woman (Guatemala), Empty (Ecuador), The oblivion that we will be (Colombia), My crazy 500 (Dominican Republic) and Sleepwalkers (Argentina).
In Looking for a coupleFrom a very personal perspective, the Cuban director deals with the personal and creative life of this island’s modernist poet.
It stars Yasmani Guerrero, and the cast also includes artists such as Yadier Fernández, Blanca Rosa Blanco, Armando Miguel Gómez and Marlon López, among other performers.
Guerrero told the official media the journeys he made to examine the artist’s life and work and from there determine his interpretation.
This meant a meeting with some of the poet’s friends and they all agreed on the great sensitivity and neurosis that characterized the artist. He also said that this character does not seek complacency, on the contrary, he wants the audience to identify with the reality that characterized this literary figure.
Looking for a couple It is another opportunity to get a place in the nomination for one of the most important awards in the international cinematographic field this year.
The only Cuban film that has received this honor is Strawberry and chocolate, by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea and Juan Carlos Tabío, in 1995. Other than this, many have tried, but no one has managed to get there.
This audiovisual production was also selected as one of 16 Ibero-American films released compete for the best film in the foreign film category of the 35th edition of the Goya Awards for Spanish cinema.
The Academy of Cinematographic Arts and Sciences in Spain has published this film on its list of candidates, which will also compete with feature films from a dozen countries, including Argentina, Mexico and Portugal.
Only with these nominations, the actor who shines Looking for a couple He said excitedly that “a film that cost us so much to make and we wait so long to make it is a candidate for the Goya Awards, it is already an award; I am happy for the team, for everyone involved, for Jorge Luis Sánchez, who has been dragging the project for years, and for the poet Julián de Casal ”.