A Sevillian mother goes to a police station at dawn after discovering that her son has been arrested for beating up a boy of Moroccan origin. This is how El hijo zurdo starts, created and directed by Rafael Cobos and starring María León, who has just won the award for best miniseries at Canneseries, the international festival of television series, and which premieres today on Movistar Plus.
New fiction is creating great expectation after sweeping one of the most prestigious festivals in the world, an award that its director collected together with a plethoric María León. "I was ashamed, I didn't let you speak," the protagonist laughed in an interview with Rafael Cobos granted to La Vanguardia. When I went up, "I didn't know, I felt like I was leaving, it was like champagne," she recalled, still excited.
The creator of the series, for his part, recounted how exciting it was to win the Cannes award and proudly read the translation of the jury's decision: “We awarded it for being an exciting project, well built, well put together, which hooked us from the start. first moment due to the intensity of his script, his direction, his music and all his acting”.
It is a mini-series of 6 chapters, each lasting about 30 minutes, in which the story of Lola (María León) is told and her relationship with her son, both left-handed, which becomes complicated when the young man becomes He joins a radical group. The story is an emotional thriller with a strong focus on motherhood that shows the journey of a mother who sees her son go adrift.
Based on the homonymous novel by Rosario Izquierdo, its director says that he read it and was "subjugated from the beginning (...) he knew there was something to tell there, and it was born that way." The mini-series "drinks from a triggering event written by Rosario", but reconstructs other stories that are not found in the text, explains Cobos.
The music, also reviewed by the jury in Cannes, does not go unnoticed and plays an important role in this new creation. “There is a musicón, it is part of the narrative”, assures the creator, “it modernizes the series and maintains the current pulse that makes it here and now”, María León adds during the interview. Great artists from the Andalusian music scene participate in the soundtrack such as Bronquio, Dalila, Julio de la Rosa, Rocío Márquez or Califato 3/4, which with a disruptive style serves "to take the viewer in another direction, to be more disruptive, to allow the subtext to be told in another way, so that the viewer feels that there is also something playful in what is happening and ultimately to give another narrative layer to the series”, says the director.
The protagonism of the city of Seville is palpable in the characters, the locations, the script and the music. “I only regret not having put in a very disruptive and very beautiful Sevillana that would have surprised”, “it would have fit”, Rafa Cobos confesses in the interview before a surprised María León. "We have made the series with the very clear and closed intention of it being in Seville", "there is a lot of identity of who we are, why we are and the city in which we live", explains Cobos.
The protagonist emphasizes to La Vanguardia that it is a "brave" series, and that the director has been "generous" and "has taken risks all the time, and that risk is what makes it so special, so different and what has made him take us to Cannes and take us the prize". "None of the topics that are touched on are comfortable and we have little fiction that put such real topics on the table," praises María León.
This highly anticipated work created by the winner of 2 Goyas (for Best Original Screenplay for La isla mínima and Best Adapted Screenplay for El hombre de las mil caras), also has a cast with Tamara Casellas, Alberto Ruano, Marisol Membrillo and the young Hugo Welzel, Germán Rueda and Numa Paredes, can be seen on Movistar Plus starting today.
