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Paz Vega’s Directorial Debut ‘Rita’ Re-Creates a Blissful, Then Blighted Childhood in 1984 Seville
Paz Vega comments: ‘Apart from the domestic violence, everything else that happens to Rita I’ve experienced.’
An initial two-minute pan creeps from a rudimentary metal fan, over notebooks, cartons of crayons, a period toy lorry, an action man on the carpet, a small basket of marbles, a manual arm clock, to Rita, just waking up on her top bed bunk. As Locarno director Giona A. Nazzaro commented to Variety, while Paz Vega is a superstar, in ‘Rita,’ she emerges as a true filmmaker, becoming invisible in the service of the story,” says Irene Airoldi, at Filmax, the film’s sales agent and domestic producer. It was good to have him coming from outside Seville, so that he feels isolated, in a place which isn’t his own, which means he’s perpetually angry, in a hot city, bringing up his family, working all day long.
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