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SANTIAGO CITY
Martín Garrido: «The Camino is a cinema landmark, it is a perfect scenery»
The Mallorcan director made the route from León to write a script inspired by the murder of Denise
XOAN A. SOLER
SUSANA LUAÑA
SANTIAGO / THE VOICE 10/4/2018 05:00 H
He is convinced: «The Camino is a reef for the cinema, it is a perfect scenery». The director and scriptwriter Mallorcan Martin Garrido (Palma de Mallorca, 1952) arrived last week to his goal in the Plaza del Obradoiro and must already be at the computer keyboard devising the script for a movie based on the murder of the American pilgrim Denise Thiem, who disappeared in 2015 when he was heading the Route in the province of León and for whose death was condemned Miguel Ángel Muñoz, a resident of Castrillo de los Polvazares.
He received the proposal from some producers a while ago, but did not say yes at the time. He decided first to do the Camino, to know the scene of the events and then to decide. He was fascinated, and not only because the scenery, the history, the landscape and the environment fit what he was looking for, but for the experience itself: "I did not walk," he clarifies, "I did it driving a 4x4 from Leon, and When I could not follow the pilgrims, I made a detour and returned to the Camino. All the places I've gone through and the hostels I stayed in seemed like a marvel to me. " He only has one complaint: "The indications are not good, I have seen people who were wrong and signs that they were deceiving, that should be improved".
He did not do the Route alone. Well, rather, who made the route was his friend the sculptor Amegra, also Mallorcan, with whom he was found at different points of the trip. «He did it walking from León. He will turn 80 in December and averaged 30 kilometers a day. Something incredible! I would not have been able to with 65 years that I have ».
The experience has allowed him to find the perfect scenario for what he is looking for. «I think you can make a scary movie with this landscape. I've gone through places where they kill you and nobody knows about it and that gives you a feeling, an air, a solitude and a restlessness ... There are tremendous landscapes, beautiful, and others very hard and mysterious ». He says he has not seen it before at the movies. «No, this landscape is new to me, I've only seen it in a film by Marta Etura, The invisible guardian . It is this landscape. But it's just a movie, I have not seen it again ». And then the Cathedral and the Obradoiro, which he described as "perfect scenery" for a film script. «Give an incredible story».
He was inspired? «Yes, I was inspired». So he said yes to the offer, and his intention is to start writing soon, as soon as he gets rid of other projects he has in hand. It will be a film based on real events, in the sad story of a pilgrim who got her way when she met Miguel Ángel Muñoz, her murderer. The script that is germinating will be added to the extensive filmography of the director and writer of Majorca, who started in the cinema with Pedro Masó, followed with the recording of recognized shorts in festivals, tried his luck in the direction and, in 2015 He wrote and directed The Bastard Son of God . If everything goes well, it will soon be back to roll on the Camino de Santiago. As he says, "a movie scenario."
SANTIAGO CITY
Martín Garrido: «The Camino is a cinema landmark, it is a perfect scenery»
The Mallorcan director made the route from León to write a script inspired by the murder of Denise
XOAN A. SOLER
SUSANA LUAÑA
SANTIAGO / THE VOICE 10/4/2018 05:00 H
He is convinced: «The Camino is a reef for the cinema, it is a perfect scenery». The director and scriptwriter Mallorcan Martin Garrido (Palma de Mallorca, 1952) arrived last week to his goal in the Plaza del Obradoiro and must already be at the computer keyboard devising the script for a movie based on the murder of the American pilgrim Denise Thiem, who disappeared in 2015 when he was heading the Route in the province of León and for whose death was condemned Miguel Ángel Muñoz, a resident of Castrillo de los Polvazares.
He received the proposal from some producers a while ago, but did not say yes at the time. He decided first to do the Camino, to know the scene of the events and then to decide. He was fascinated, and not only because the scenery, the history, the landscape and the environment fit what he was looking for, but for the experience itself: "I did not walk," he clarifies, "I did it driving a 4x4 from Leon, and When I could not follow the pilgrims, I made a detour and returned to the Camino. All the places I've gone through and the hostels I stayed in seemed like a marvel to me. " He only has one complaint: "The indications are not good, I have seen people who were wrong and signs that they were deceiving, that should be improved".
He did not do the Route alone. Well, rather, who made the route was his friend the sculptor Amegra, also Mallorcan, with whom he was found at different points of the trip. «He did it walking from León. He will turn 80 in December and averaged 30 kilometers a day. Something incredible! I would not have been able to with 65 years that I have ».
The experience has allowed him to find the perfect scenario for what he is looking for. «I think you can make a scary movie with this landscape. I've gone through places where they kill you and nobody knows about it and that gives you a feeling, an air, a solitude and a restlessness ... There are tremendous landscapes, beautiful, and others very hard and mysterious ». He says he has not seen it before at the movies. «No, this landscape is new to me, I've only seen it in a film by Marta Etura, The invisible guardian . It is this landscape. But it's just a movie, I have not seen it again ». And then the Cathedral and the Obradoiro, which he described as "perfect scenery" for a film script. «Give an incredible story».
He was inspired? «Yes, I was inspired». So he said yes to the offer, and his intention is to start writing soon, as soon as he gets rid of other projects he has in hand. It will be a film based on real events, in the sad story of a pilgrim who got her way when she met Miguel Ángel Muñoz, her murderer. The script that is germinating will be added to the extensive filmography of the director and writer of Majorca, who started in the cinema with Pedro Masó, followed with the recording of recognized shorts in festivals, tried his luck in the direction and, in 2015 He wrote and directed The Bastard Son of God . If everything goes well, it will soon be back to roll on the Camino de Santiago. As he says, "a movie scenario."
This is just... words fail me. How appalling.
