The Spanish representation at this year's Oscar Awards consists of the animation movie "Chico and Rita" by Fernando Trueba, Javier Mariscal and Tono Errando, and of the composer Alberto Iglesias who has been nominated for his original score in the film "Tinker Taylor Soldier Spy".
"Chico and Rita" is a wonderful project of animation for adults devised in the creative minds of the Catalan cartoonist Javier Mariscal and the talented and award-winning Spanish director Fernando Trueba. The movie tells the appasionate love story between a young jazz pianist, Chico, and a debuting singer, Rita, in the Cuba of the 1940s.
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| Fernando Trueba and Javier Mariscal |
The astonishing and original animation work of this movie, together with its marvellous music, makes this film become a mature and authentic peace of art which is filled with content. Trueba and Mariscal are real geniuses of a sensitive film making and a sensitive way of seeing art in general.
The script of the movie is written by Fernando Trueba and Ignacio Martínez de Pisón, and the music is composed by the Cuban grand old jazzman Bebo Valdés. The movie already won the Spanish Film Academy's Goya Award for the best animation movie last year.
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| Alberto Iglesias |
And what comes to the composer Alberto Iglesias, Goya Award-winning too, he has a long career as a film composer in Spain where he has worked with directors such as Pedro Almodóvar, Julio Medem or Iciar Bollaín. He also has composed original scores to films like "The Constant Gardener", "The Kite Runner" or "Che".
We hope luck to these Spanish artists whose talent is most certainly worth an Oscar. We'll have to wait until February 26th to find out if they actually will be awarded, although a nomination is already a great reward.
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