When it premiered in April, ‘Alcarràs’ was given as the Spanish film of 2022, but Alberto Rodríguez, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Pilar Palomero or Carlos Vermut were yet to arrive, and From thinking that it was going to sweep the Goyas, it has gone on to not take any in the 11 nominations to which it opted at a gala that awarded ‘As Bestas’. A failure that, as always when these things happen, is attributed to Judeo-Masonic conspiracies within the Film Academy.
Outrage over the rosco
Nobody expected that ‘Alcarràs’ would leave empty after having won the Golden Bear at the 72nd edition of the Berlinale, a historic award that Spanish cinema had not received since 1983 with ‘La colmena’, but the truth is that it is considered that the awards of a festival to those of Spanish cinema need a correlation is a somewhat reductionist thought, and to think that the elections of others are better than ours, typical of a late-Franco Spain.
AND This is because ‘As Bestas’ did not compete at the Berlinale, of course. You have to stop thinking that there are ulterior motives and assimilate that there is a film that has convinced wherever it has gone and not try to make mental schemes in which it has won because it was released in November and not in April. ‘Cinco Lobitos’ did it in May and has managed to scratch more. The ‘Model 77’ thing is something else, of course. Nonsense, but in which the victims are ‘Malnazidos’ and ‘Irati’.
Others see an incongruity that the Spanish Film Academy chose ‘Alcarràs’ as Spain’s representative at the 2023 Oscars, beating ‘Cinco lobitos’ and ‘As Bestas’, the other two shortlisted, and then they did not give any Goya awards. The resounding failure (it didn’t even pass the pre-selection) was something that could be felt, and although the choice of one and the other does not only have to do with which is the best film, The Goya 2023 thing seems like a timely correction and does justice to the best Spanish film not just of the year, but of what we have been doing for the decade.
In Espinof