Interview with the director Lucía Puenzo, on the occasion of the premiere of El Niño Pez

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The Argentine filmmaker who established herself with her debut feature XXY, returns to the ring with the premiere of The Fish Boy, a film in which he returns to portray an ambiguous world, although in this second foray, punch load the inks on other topics such as relationships, climates and a certain air of black police.

El Niño Pez was presented in the Panorama section of the Berlin Festival, and is based on a novel by Puenzo herself, written at age 23. In the film adaptation he decided to summon again Ines Efron and chose the singer- We do not for the character of a Paraguayan maid who works in Lala's (Efron) house.

Puenzo says that the book was narrated by Lala's dog, but when working on the film script, he realized that this possibility was completely ruled out.: "I had to betray her, in a good way, ”he says. The tone changed, the genre came to the fore. By taking out that tormenting dog as a narrator, who gave him humor, there is a clearer turn to the police. The movie is darker than the novel.

The differences between the novel and the movie, and the challenge involved in transposing a literary work to film are evident in Lucia's words: "In the book the story is told in a linear way and first I tried to edit it like that," he explains. Then I was rewriting in the montage and I realized that I could modify that chronology and tell it in a different way. What interested me were the emotions, the weather, telling the story as an outburst ».

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Source: Clarín


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