In the director’s words, “
El club del paro cuts out the sentimentality that drags down a lot of comedies, focusing instead on the only thing that should concern us: laughter. Yes, it is difficult to distance ourselves from tragedies like evictions, corruption, unemployment, the erosion of workers’ rights and the financial crisis, but it is important to approach all of these issues with a good dose of caustic humour just like the man on the street or at the local bar, because after a couple of beers, everything starts to look different. As Monty Python teaches us at the end of
Schoolgirls comes out on top at the 26th Forqué Awards
Producer Valérie Delpierre picking up the Forqué Award for Best Fiction Feature for
Schoolgirls
On Saturday 16 January, the ceremony for the 26
th edition of the José María Forqué Film Awards (handed out by EGEDA, an organisation that manages Spanish audiovisual producers’ rights) was held in the IFEMA Palacio Municipal in Madrid, with less than half of its usual number of audience members, in accordance with the restrictions imposed by the pandemic. Indeed, only the nominees themselves were in attendance, alongside a clutch of industry guests and a handful of officials, such as Minister of Culture