Carla Simón on 'Romería': Turning Her Parents' Tragic AIDS Deaths into a Fictionalized Film Memoir
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Ryan Lattanzio
Summary
Spanish filmmaker Carla Simón discusses her deeply personal new film 'Romería,' a fictionalized memoir about her parents' love story, their descent into drug addiction, and their deaths from AIDS. The interview explores how Simón has channeled her own traumatic family experiences into her filmmaking, from her debut 'Summer 1993' through 'Alcarràs' to this latest work, which follows a teenage filmmaker investigating the father she never knew and the mother she barely knew.
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IndieWireCarla Simón on 'Romería': Turning Her Parents' Tragic AIDS Deaths into a Fictionalized Film Memoirindiewire.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledI think every film I make is a way of understanding something about my own life, about the people I lost, about the silences that surrounded their stories.
The camera became my way of asking questions I couldn't ask when they were alive — of reconstructing a past that was always hidden from me.
Making 'Romería' was like walking through a door I had been afraid to open for years. But once I started, I couldn't stop.
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