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The Goodbye
Cast & Crew
- Director
- Producer
- Screenwriter
- Director of photography
- Main Cast
- Editor (Cut)
- Sound Design
- Original Score
- Production Design
- Costume Design
- MakeupLaura De Bruyn
Director's comment
The story of THE GOODBYE is built around Rosana’s character, with the aim of portraying the invisibility of certain gestures, certain feminine faces, and certain farewells.The story is conceived more as a portrait of manners than a classical drama. And as such, it intends to focus on the thickness of the daily rhythms, the importance of the little actions of the protagonist performing the same invisible rituals she has performed every day. In other words: the story is not centred on a specific gesture that changes things, instead, the change happens because of an accumulation of little gestures. But this time something stands between Rosana and her daily business: her grieving for the death of Angela, the woman she took care of for more than ten years.
The characters in THE GOODBYE gravitate around Angela’s death and the funeral rituals, which give a certain weight to the story. The visual treatment of the story is tinged with the contained attitude and the sobriety of the family: there’s no crying, no crumbling, feelings don’t circulate, hidden under a veneer of propriety and elegance. Through the visual language I wanted to enhance this sense of stillness and sobriety. We worked with the blocking of the actors within the shot through long shots and choreographed movements, inspired by such films as CRIES AND WHISPERS by Ingmar Bergman and Carl Theodor Dreyer’s ORDET.
THE GOODBYE is not just the story of Rosana, but of many other women forced to leave their own families and their own sick mothers to care for others. We live in a time of changes in which the polarisation of social classes and the difficulty of escaping the fate of the conditions that are given to us from birth is constantly criticised. And I think it’s necessary to speak of the persistence of certain rites of class, of certain forms of de-humanisation in dealing with the subordinates.
Biography
Clara Roquet is a writer and director from Spain, and a current student of the Film MFA at Columbia University in the USA. She is the co-writer of the feature film 10,000KM (2014), EFA-nominated and winner of various awards. THE GOODBYE is her directorial debut.Clara is currently in post-production of her new short film THE GOOD GIRLS, shot in Spain during August 2016.
Cast & Crew
Clara RoquetSergi Moreno, Tono Folguera
Clara Roquet
Gris Jordana
Jenny Rios (Rosana), Mercè Pons (Mercè), Júlia Danés (Júlia)
Mounia Akl, Carlos Marques-Marcet
Diego Casares
Paul Tyan
Evelin Hernandez, Ana Pons-Formosa
Vinyet Escobar
Laura De Bruyn
