Penélope Cruz lives one of her sweetest professional moments. If last year he received the Volpi Cup at the Venice festival for his role in Pedro Almodóvar's Parallel Mothers, for which he received a fourth Oscar nomination, this 2022 he has also returned to the Mostra to present L'immensità, by Emanuele Crialese , and On the Margins, the directorial debut of Juan Diego Botto who participated in the Orizzonti section and which hits commercial theaters this October 7.
In this social drama, Cruz, who also works as a producer, gets into the skin of a mother who works as a supermarket cashier and is desperate because she is about to be evicted. She also has the support of her neighbors and the association against evictions. "Restarting a debate" like this is very necessary and "has a lot of value", said in Venice the renowned interpreter from Alcobendas, who has described herself as a privileged person for "making movies", which is why she has recalled the responsibility of being able to participate in films like this one, which denounces that in Spain there are currently a hundred evictions a day.
Cruz praised his friend Botto for his ability to tell a story "with so much truth." The film follows characters trying to stay on their feet and survive a fateful day that could change the course of their lives forever. A feature film against the clock about personal relationships and affection as the engine to move forward.
It was Cruz herself who proposed to Botto to write a story to do together after she was completely moved by the play 'An invisible piece of this world', in which the Argentine actor spoke of exile and immigration. The story had to be about jealousy, and Botto assured him that he would get to work on it. But he didn't get it. Instead he imagined a scene in which a couple were arguing out of jealousy the night before his eviction. And from there later came the script that the actor co-wrote with his partner, the journalist Olga Rodríguez, and which is his first foray behind the camera.
In the film, Cruz has short hair and looks tired, and has a heated argument with her husband, played by Botto, a man who earns a living working for four euros an hour and who ignores the struggle of his woman for not losing her house.
The actress, who picked up the National Cinematography Award at the San Sebastian Festival and will work under Michael Mann at Ferrari, will attend El hormiguero tonight to talk about In the margins accompanied by Juan Diego Botto and Luis Tosar, who plays to a lawyer who goes out of his way to help people in need.
