Beyond the talent for orchestrating action scenes – in the film As bestas and the series Antidisturbios–, the filmmaker from Madrid Rodrigo Sorogoyen usually builds his sharp existential odysseys around intimate sequences loaded with dramatic density and attention to detail. Following this pattern, El ser querido opens with a lengthy and vibrant encounter between a father (Javier Bardem), a successful film director, and his daughter (Victoria Luengo), whom he hasn't seen in thirteen years and who offers her the leading role in his new film. In itself, this scene, filmed in close-ups from a distance, offers everything an demanding viewer could ask for: writing of the highest precision, eloquent silences, echoes of John Cassavetes and Ingmar Bergman, and a duo of actors in a state of grace.

2026 is by Victoria Luengo (Palma, 1990). After her first important role with Almodóvar (Amarga Navidad), came the premiere at Cannes of El ser querido, by Rodrigo Sorogoyen, where she plays Emilia, an actress the daughter of a famous director (Javier Bardem), who returns to Spain after many years in Hollywood and offers her a role in his new film. It is a meta-cinematographic drama with many moral twists that arrives in cinemas this Wednesday, August 26, a few weeks before the premiere in San Sebastian of Sants, Luengo's reunion with Mikel Gurrea, who already directed her in Suro.

With the permission of Pedro Almodóvar, the Spanish director most loved in France in recent times is surely Rodrigo Sorogoyen (Madrid, 1981), who just a few days ago received the Order of Arts and Letters from the French government and has triumphed in French cinemas with titles such as El reino or As bestas. The culmination of his love story with France is the participation in the Cannes competition of his new film, El ser querido, which premieres this Saturday both at the festival and in French cinemas, an unusual fact for a Spanish production that will not reach our country until August.

The 98th Academy Awards have crowned One battle after another like the big winner of the nightThe film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson gradually gained prominence throughout the ceremony, becoming the dominant name of the awards, which were marked by its overall success. The gala also featured musical numbers and some moments of protest, despite being rather tame and lacking in activism.

In the midst of promoting his new film, F1. The movie, in which he shares the bill with Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem has given an interview with the New York Times explaining some intimate details he doesn't usually talk about, such as his family. The actor has explained how the birth of his two children, Leo and Luna, impacted him and, especially, his wife, Penélope Cruz. "The pregnancy wasn't so bad. The depression that followed was. She wasn't able to talk about it; it was very new to her," he recalls.