Despite the economic crisis, and the not-less-crisis of Spanish cinema, films are still being shot in our country, which try to move the market and the celluloid industry forward. The production that we are going to talk about has been in the middle of the filming process in Alicante, in the studios of the "City of Light".
The film is named after "Cardboard castles". To some it will sound like something, because it is based on a novel of the same name by the writer Almudena Grandes. And it is based on that work, although the script, according to the director, «develops with filming«. Who runs the baton is none other than Salvador Garcia Ruiz, whom we already saw directing in mensaka y The other neighborhood. Production is Gerard Herrero.
And history? Well, it takes place in the 80s, just like the novel. And just like in her, the protagonists are three boys in their 20s and a love story. The typical love triangle, in this case with the scene of the Faculty of Fine Arts in the middle. What is different about the book? Well basically the scenarios, because in the work of Almudena Grandes the plot takes place in Madrid, and in the movie of Garcia Ortiz we moved to the Valencian Community. The filming will be done entirely in that region: the exteriors in Valencia, -where the whole story is supposed to take place-, and the interiors, on the sets of the Alicante City of Light.
The actors are young and quite unknown: Biel Duran, Pepa Pedroche y Adriana Ugarte, and they believe that "filming is a challenge of interpretation". The film was presented yesterday at the Alicante studios. We leave you some of the photos of the filming and the presentation.
