The world of culture fired Carlos Saura yesterday. Relatives, friends and followers of the Aragonese filmmaker and screenwriter attended the burning chapel, which opened this Monday at the Film Academy with the drums of Calanda and which was not lacking the Minister of Culture and Sports, Miquel Iceta, and President Pedro Sanchez. The seven children of the director and his widow, Eulàlia Ramón, presided over the ceremony in which the Goya of Honor that was awarded to him this Saturday was present at all times.
During the ceremony, the singer Jeanette wanted to say goodbye to her "dear teacher", Carlos Saura, singing a cappella before his coffin in the burning chapel the Porque te vas, which was internationalized with the film Cría cuervos (1976) and which she claimed this Monday that she had than having interpreted her at the Goya gala last Saturday.
The Film Academy chose Natalia Lafourcade instead, something that angered Jeanette, as she told the press upon leaving the wake: "I don't understand how I wasn't at the Goyas. I've already found out what It happened, but I'm not going to explain it here, it's because of the organization, they stole my position" at the ceremony in which Saura was awarded the Goya de Honor for his career.
Because, he recalled, "the song helped the film and the film helped the song", in such a way that the theme composed by José Luis Perales became as international as the film whose soundtrack it was part of and triumphed at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976.
"I'm a little sad because at the Goya they didn't count on me to sing it; with all my respect to that singer, the organization should have thought of me," he added, adding that the filmmaker's now widow, Eulàlia Ramón, "has given it to her. he put on and ten minutes later he passed away.
That song that Saura turned into the center of the Cría Cuervos soundtrack out of personal commitment, has served Jeanette to say her personal goodbye to the maestro, because it was, she has said, "the one she liked the most".
