07 · 04 · 19 Volcano woman: Chavela Vargas at the Pedro Almodóvar cinema Share with twitter Share with facebook Share with mail Copy to clipboard Gabriela Martínez @Gabmartivel Antonio Banderas obtuvo el premio a Mejor Actor en el 72° Festival de Cannes gracias a su trabajo en Dolor y gloria (2019), la más reciente película de Pedro Almodóvar. En ella, Banderas interpreta a Salvador Mallo, un cineasta que ha decidido hacer una pausa en su carrera y los recuerdos lo hacen viajar a su infancia, su madre y su primer amor en Madrid durante los años ochenta. Pain and Glory (2019, dir. Pedro Almodóvar) In his farewell letter to Chavela, Almodóvar remembers the time he visited her at her house in Tepoztlán, Morelos, in 2008 where she lived in front of the hill of Chalchitépetl from where the Popocatepetl volcano could also be seen: “On that visit she also told me "I am Quiet", and she repeated it to me again in Madrid, on her lips the word calm takes on all its meaning, it is serene, without fear, without anguish, without expectations (or with all, but that cannot be explained), calm. She also told me "one night I will stop", and the phrase "I will stop" fell with weight and at the same time light, definitive and at the same time casual. "Little by little," he continued, "alone, and I will enjoy it." She said that." "Goodbye volcano" Pedro signed this letter published by El Deseo, production company that he founded with his brother Agustín in 1985. Thus he dismissed his great friend, who liked to call him "husband in this world", a woman who could very well condense everything the female figure represents in Almodóvar's cinema: imperfection, pain, conflict, but above all, strength.
