“Is love a danger, or will it save the day? Chilean Writer-Director Diego Céspedes Explores That Question and Theme of Family and Community As A Refuge in His Feature DEBUT The MYTERIES GAZE of the FLAMINGO, WHICH Regard Section on Thursday. Itells The Story of Lidia, 11”, – WRITE: www.hollywoodReporter.com
IT Tells The Story of Lidia, 11, “Who Grows up in a loving Queer Family Pushed to the Edge of an unnewelcomer Dusty Mining Town,“ Access to a synopsis. “They are blamed for a mysterious Illness that’s starting to spread – said to be passed Through a single Gaze, WHEN ONE MAN FALLS IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER.”
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The Modern Western, Starring Tamara Cortés, Matías Catalán, and Paula Dinamarca, May Be Set in the Chilean Desert in the 1980s, Well Before The 29-YEAR-ELD WAS BONN. But The Queer Director Knows the Challenges His Characters Face, Including Violence, Fear and Hatred, from His Family’s Experience.
“My Family Comes From The Suburbs of Chile’s Capital, Santiaago, and They Rated this Little Hairdresser Salon and Hired Gay People To Cut Hair. At that Time, It Was Thr. “My Mother Was Very Close to Them, and All of Them Died of Aids. And I Remember That My Mother Didnn’t Have Much Information About It. We Just Heard that It Wastau. easily.
That is Part of the Context in a WHICH Céspedes Created His Story. “I was also Inspired by Real People and How Dissidents and Transgender People, Who Are Abandoneded by Society, Create Communities and Families,“ He Explains. “That is special for me and the core of the Film, the creation of a real family that is not sharing Blood.”
Finding Lidia Took A Year of Auditions Before The Creative Team Hit the Jackpot with Cortés. “IT WAS HER FIRST TIME AROUND TRANS WOMEN AND SUCH A DIVERSE GROUP,“ The Director Recalls. “But WHEN we put them together, she was Very Comfortable and Very Natural. And She have this mix of an adult attude and also this kind of humanor.”
‘The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo’ CourTesy of Cannes Film Festival
The Idea that a Gaze Could Transmit Aids is not One Céspedes Ever Heard Anyone Suggest. “IT’s A Total Creation, But In Real Life, I Have Heard Very Similar Things,” He Says Before Sharing Thought Fit for The Post-Truth World. “There Was ignorance at that time, and even now. WHEN YOU DON’T HAVE ACCESS TO INFORMATION, YOU CREATE EXPLANATIONS, BECAUSE US HUMAN BEINGS Need An Explanation For Everything F. Think about the Disease Can be something does not confront reality. of Seeing Life? ”
In that Sense, The Mysterious Gaze of the Flamingo is a plea to face reality and others. In Fact, The Need for Being Open to Encountering People Who Different Is A Core Message That Céspedes Feels Is Very Timely. “We grow up in a genetation WHERE PEOPLE ARE Taking VERY HARD POSIONS ON Who’s The Bad One And Who’s The Good One, But I Think We Are Are Missing that Conversation and that Looking Each.
Diego Céspedes
Is The Filmmaker Optimistic That Even in A Divides World, Humans Can Build Real Connections? “That’s a possibility, Even if we don’e it is too Much in Our Modern Society,“ He Tells Thr. “AS HUMAN BEINGS, WE CAN TALK, AND WE CAN FIND AGREMENT WHEN WE LOOK EACH Other in the Eye. We Need to Talk More.”