The welcome normality of a film about Jordi Pujol

The film about Jordi Pujol written by Toni Soler and directed by Manuel Huerga, responds to the desire to make your own political cinema before others do it for you. Our Father focuses on how the publication in 2014 in The World The news about the Pujol family's accounts in Andorra altered the public image of the former president of the Generalitat. The film aims to give an overview of the case, without forgetting the role of the Spanish state's sewers in the matter, but from the perspective of the protagonist and his entourage. Closer to a family chamber drama than a historical fresco, one of the film's great successes Our Father lies in the choice of Josep Maria Pou as the protagonist. The actor does not resemble Pujol, and his characterization is not forced. This way, thePoland effect –that is, falling into the caricature of the character– to approach the tragic meditation on how a leader can end up dynamiting his own legacy.

The film connects with a European tradition, especially Italian, of Marco Bellocchio to Paolo Sorrentino, a political film that approaches its protagonists from a more introspective and psychological perspective. But it fails to find the balance of tone between a certain respect for the historical figure of Pujol and the more farcical vision of the actions of some of his children. Nor does it find the balance between the portrait of the present and the echo of the past through some flashbacks Excessively telefilmic. On paper, the choice of making a film about interiors is remarkable. But the result is marred by a somewhat poor aesthetic finish with a digital aftertaste. However, Our Father It is part of this happy moment of a Catalan cinema that believes in its own normality, in this case from the conviction that the proposal will reach a wide audience and will spark conversation about Jordi Pujol's mark on our recent history.

Toni Soler: "We can't speculate about who killed Kennedy and not about what happened to Jordi Pujol."