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I've always been a lover of mythology in general, but above all of Basque mythology, which is mine, the one that was taught to me, and I have always wanted to make a film about this mythological world, this cosmogony.
I've always wanted to do sword and sorcery, which is one of my favorite genres and well that's a bit, that love for the sword and sorcery genre, that love for mythology and medieval history.
-It's better to die by a Christian sword than to live under the Saracens.
- Are you looking for my iron?
-Please!
We wanted to make a film as big as possible, in 2.35, with anamorphics... Visually it was spectacular, epic, big! So for that we had to go to natural locations, as large as possible, the Pyrenees, the forests, the rivers, the caves... Immerse ourselves in that natural world that is very difficult to access to be able to shoot with all the materials and so on, and it is very hard also for the cast.
-Put this on.
-No way.
-The eguzkilore will protect you more than that cross, it is an amulet for the darkness.
-I'm not going to wear that.
Nature is also the protagonist of the film, it somehow represents those mythological deities. Recreate all that historical world, with battles, extras and so on.
As I comented the other day in a post about Irati that Belasko is the antagonist of the film, he and some other nobles are against Eneko inheriting his grandfather's position as lord of the valley and Belasko propose himself as the next lord of the valley, because they believe Eneko's family isn't "Christian enough" because his father believed in pagan beliefs and his mother Oneka is now a Muslim woman because she married Musa Ibn Fortun and had children with him (like Musa Ibn Musa al-Qasawi) after her first husband died ( this marriage meant the beginning of an alliance in the family with the Banu Qasi against the Franks and more or less a good political relationship with the emirate of Córdoba) despite Ximeno and Eneko being staunchly Christian and Eneko starts understanding the old beliefs during his adventure with Irati.
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Eneko is a young man who is destined to be the leader of the valley. His father was, so Eneko returns to the valley after a few years wanting to restore a bit of order and peace in the valley.
-I remember little, my father's funeral, a wild tradition. When I am lord of the valley there will be nothing like this anymore
He's in for an adventure...
- What are you doing here?
-Don't worry, there's no need to shed blood. Tell us where the gold is and we'll be in peace.
-Get out or duel!
That will be played by Irati, a mysterious young pagan from the valley with whom he will have to unite if he wants to become the leader of that valley. Then, all his faith and all his beliefs will be put in check to achieve peace. But also review his past and review his father.
-Be careful Belasko, respect or you will go to the dungeon!
-God has cursed your surname.
The most difficult part of the shoot was maintaining my weight, which I gained almost ten kilos for this film, along with also maintaining the choreography of the swords, that the horse listened to me, all these things that are already a bit out of the actor's control. That was really like a leap of faith.
The funny thing is that this film wasn't the first time Eneko Sagardoy has been in prominent changes, although in my opinion in Irati for he didn't change so much, although the following ones were more like an aspect of the effects and the production, there's Handia in which he played Miguel Joaquin Eleizegi, aka the Giant of Altzo, and in Errementari he played as the devil Sartael:
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Eneko: Some beings have been created that I want to find in my nightmares. The public is going to be incredibly surprised with the beings that we are going to see during the film. I can not say too much... I think the work that has been done to put body and shape to all this that until now we have only had in our minds, in our imagination is precious and I think it is impressive and that the public is going to hallucinate.
Edurne: Wonderful. Special mention to David Heras because he is also a good friend and is working hard for the effects. It is another of the quadrangular stones that believe a lot in Irati. Him and his entire team, because let's not forget that there are like, I don't know, 120 people pixel by pixel, working to make it believable, so that this universe reaches the screens as big as possible. So this department is really crucial and Paul holds it in high esteem.
Itziar: I remember that I had an LED attached to my hand and to my body that, when she got angry, it turned on the LED, because well, this later with the effects... I didn't understand anything, all full of cables.
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The first film by director Paul Urkijo, Errementari: The Blacksmith and the Devil, despite its defects, evidenced the author's intentions to exploit an almost intact beta in our cinema, that of folklore and peninsular legends.
Paul: We have such a large compendium of legends and there are many people who do not know them, that is a pity, that is, these legends are not transmitted for not giving them importance or taking them as a story, when they really are part of our culture, that is, they root us deeply in the world and our way of seeing the world. We also have to preserve these stories because they are precisely a lesson to preserve all this natural world that we have.
-To arms!
-Prepare for battle!
Now in Irati the director jumps back several centuries, specifically the 8th century to narrate, more accurately than its predecessor, the legend of Eneko, the first king of Pamplona. Once again with the participation of RTVE, shot in Basque, Urkijo repeats the leading role with Eneko Sagardoy, who faced the action challenge typical of these fantasies, apparently far from the actor's physique.
-That's enough, grandfather is waiting for me.
Eneko: He is one of the characters that I would never have thought that any casting director, for example, would have thought of me to play the king of Navarra who rides a horse, and such, that I put on 10 kilos based on sandwiches, cheese and milkshakes, and I gained a lot of muscle. I would never have imagined seeing myself like this or learning to ride a horse, to fight with swords very quickly and I think it was necessary.
Also in that case it was not a question of i Look, how I have transformed!, it was not binding, and it has been nice to see you physically transformed, it is always interesting.
-Calm down, what's up?
-The pain of the forest anguishes him
-This river is full of lamia tears. They left long ago with the construction of your hermitages and mills.
He takes as his starting point the first volume of the comic El Ciclo de Irati with which he builds a precious and careful story of magic and swords in which we witness the return of Eneko years after the battle of Roncesvalles in which his father lost his life. against the army of Charlemagne.
-Boy, you'll have to be strong to be a leader.
-To die!
-To arms!
Eneko will find himself in a region where the emerging Christianity and Muslims coexist with pagan beliefs. To reclaim his dynastic right, he will try to recover his father's body with the help of an enigmatic hermit, the beautiful Irati, played by the young debutant actress Edurne Azkarate.
-He appreciates you, he likes that you give him nuts
-How do you know that?
-Silence!
Paul: I've been able to make a movie three times as big, more serious too, although that adventure is also good, it's a movie with monsters and sword blows, but it's also a drama.
-Lamias...there are no such female creatures with bird feet
-A noble like you will have been with many women, right? Have you seen many feet?
We can affirm that Irati is the best to date, also almost the only magic and swords genre film in our cinema. It contains everything that fans of these formats of evocative adventure landscapes and magical beings such as lamias or mermaids and Basque mythology such as the mother earth goddess Mari or the tartalus, a kind of cyclops.
Paul: What I like is doing fantastic genres with creatures from fairy tale worlds, it's what I like the most, and it's what I want to continue doing as long as they let me.
Its technical envelope transmits a sensation of big-budget cinema, the care from the photography to the special effects or its impressive soundtrack and the epic of its story reminds us of productions such as the classic Excalibur or the recent The Green Knight, excellent distant cousins for a second work by a director to keep an eye on.
- Lamiak, Basajaun, mamarroak, Gaueko...
-Do they all have names?
-Yes, as long as someone remembers them
Previous interviews: Edurne Azkarate, Itziar Ituño
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Irati, Paul Urkijo Alijo (2022)
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10 películas y series de terror en Netflix que debes ver este octubre
Octubre es el mes del terror y aquí te damos algunas recomendaciones de películas y series que no te pueden faltar en tu lista para ver.
Ya llegamos a octubre, el mes designado como el mes de lo terrorífico y espeluznante, y si tu eres de aquellos que no les basta con ver películas apropiadas para la temática en los días festivos, pues aquí te tenemos diez recomendaciones de películas y series de terror y suspenso que puedes ver en Netflix a lo largo de este mes.
Errementari
Dir. Paul Urkijo Alijo
Un relato vasco sobre un…
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"This child is a saint. They threw her out of hell. Don't send her back there again or I will eat your thumbs while you sleep."
Errementari (The Blacksmith and the Devil) dir. Paul Urkijo Alijo, 2017
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Tráiler (V.O.S.E.) de “Irati” (2022), de Paul Urkijo Alijo. Siglo VIII. El cristianismo se extiende por Europa mientras las creencias paganas desaparecen. Ante el ataque del ejército de Carlomagno atravesando los Pirineos, el líder del valle pide ayuda a una diosa ancestral. Mediante un pacto de sangre, derrota al enemigo dando su vida a cambio, pero antes, hace prometer a su hijo Eneko que protegerá y liderará a su pueblo en la nueva era. Años más tarde, Eneko afronta esa promesa con una misión: recuperar el cuerpo de su padre enterrado de forma pagana junto al tesoro de Carlomagno. Pese a su fe cristiana, necesitará la ayuda de Irati, una enigmática pagana de la zona. Los dos jóvenes se adentrarán en un extraño e inhóspito bosque donde “todo lo que tiene nombre existe”. ESTRENO: 24 FEBRERO 2023.
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Thank you @beansterpie for tagging me in this!
last song i listened to: Megara's Truco o Trato, can't believe they won't be going to Eurovision...
three ships: garashir, agohiru and dofuwani
currently reading: Fics, mostly, and I'm technically rereading the Eyeshield 21 manga, but it's going slow.
last movie i watched: Irati by Paul Urkijo <3 Definitely check it out when it hits the streaming platforms
craving: torrijas...
I tag @shortandbittersweet @that-angry-devilbat @affys-place @mme-m @ajayers-art and anyone who wants to have a go
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Movies watched in Sitges Film Festival this year 2022.
Watcher - dir. Chloe Okuno
Ego (Hatching) - dir. Hanna Bergholm
Glorious - dir. Rebekah McKendry
Vesper - dir. Kristina Buozyte & Bruno Samper
Emily - dir. Frances O’Connor
You won’t be alone - dir. Goran Stolevski
Blaze - dir. Del Kathryn Barton
La tour - dir. Guillaume Nicloux (no poster released yet)
La otra forma - dir. Diego Guzmán
Unidentified Objects - dir. Juan Felipe Zuleta
Nocebo - dir. Lorcan Finnegan
Shin Ultraman - dir. Shinji Higuchi
Alienoid Pt.1 - dir. Choi Dong-hoon
Inu-Oh - dir. Maasaki Yuasa
Yaya e Lennie - dir. Alessandro Rak
Fumer Fait Tousser - dir. Quentin Dupieux
Irati - dir. Paul Urkijo
A man of reason - dir. Jung Woo-Sung
Pearl - dir. Ti West
Project Wolf Hunting - dir. Kim Hong-sun
And a couple of short films: New Babylon and La machine d’Alex.
It’s been a good year overall.
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BEST OF SIFF: ROUND 3
YEAR OF THE FOX: DIRECTED BY MEGAN GRIFFITHS
A 17-year-old, Ivy, who was adopted as an infant into a wealthy and notable Aspen family, is navigating the fallout of her parent's bitter divorce.
Nearly all coming-of-age stories are identical, with the teen learning to cope with their life and self in a self-discovering fashion. So I was surprised to see Year of the Fox take a much darker approach to the classic story. Though the story implementing Eyes Wide Shut Aspen addition may not have worked due to its predictability and unbelievability, I still respect it for taking a different approach. Sarah Jeffery shines in her performance of perfectly capturing a teen coming of age, with all the hormones and emotions that come with it. Overall, I enjoyed this movie for what it was, and I respect it for taking a different approach to its story.
My Rating: B
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STELLA: DIRECTED BY TYLER DOEHRING
Chef Ciro Oliva wants nothing more than his Neapolitan pizzeria Concettina ai Tre Santi to be the first of its kind to earn the converted Michelin Star, but that's easier said than done with the notoriously secretive organization.
If you are not craving pizza by the end of this documentary, then you have no soul. Stella is a mouthwatering documentary of the quest for a pizzeria to attain a Michelin Star. It masterfully showcases the art of pizza making like no one has before. It truly honors the chefs behind the pizza making, where you wonder how haven't they earned a Michelin Star. Overall, if you have some pizza cravings, their movie is perfect for you.
My Rating: A-
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FILIP: DIRECTED BY MICHAL KWIECINSKI
941, the Warsaw ghetto. Filip, a young Polish Jew, with his beloved Sarah, are getting ready to perform in a cabaret to earn a living. During the premiere, a shootout takes place, during which Sara, as well as Philip’s relatives sitting in the audience, are killed. Two years later, the man works as a waiter in the restaurant of an upscale hotel in Frankfurt.
As for Holocaust and WW2 movies, the era has been pushed to all the boundaries you think they could. However, 80 years after the war, the era can still reveal some unique stories. Filip gives up a glimpse of a Jew hiding in plain sight in Frankfurt, Germany, as he struggles with his race and his sexual desires in a country that wants to see him hang. It's a fascinating character study into the psychological trauma and strength needed to survive Nazi Germany. Eryk Kulm is the heart of this film with his powerful and heartbreaking performance. If you have a chance to see this, definitely go watch it.
My Rating: A-
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IRATI: DIRECTED BY PAUL URKIJO ALIJO
Western Pyrenees, year 778. When his land is threatened by the ruthless armies of the Frankish emperor, a Basque warlord asks for help from his ancestral gods.
When the official program was released for SIFF, the moment I saw the picture for Irati, I knew I was done with it, and it did not disappoint. Irati is a fun fantasy adventure that highlights an underrated mythology. The story is fascinating as it's filled with great characters and stunning character design. The story masterfully weaves Spain's pagan mythology that highlights its unique nature. Furthermore, the battle sequences are spectacular, given its limited budget. Overall, Irati is a lot of fun and definitely worth a theater experience.
My rating: B
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BILAN CULTUREL - SEPT.+OCT. 2022
Cinéma :
Les cinq diables - Léa Mysius
Livres & bandes dessinées :
I Am, I Am, I Am - Maggie O’Farrell
Bestiaire - Luis Sepúlveda
Les Mystères de Larispem, tomes 1 & 2 - Lucie Pierrat-Pajot
Les longueurs - Claire Castillon
Fondation et Empire - Isaac Asimov
D’eau et de boue - Adam Smith, Matthew Fox
Aquarica, tome 1 - Benoît Sokal, François Schuiten
Tananarive - Sylvain Vallée, Mark Eacersall
La revanche des bibliothécaires - Tom Gault
American Tragedy, l’histoire de Sacco & Vanzetti - Florent Calvez
Walk me to the corner - Anneli Furmark
Mister Wonderful - Daniel Clowes
Dédales - Charles Burns
La Renarde - Marine Blandin, Sébastien Chrisostome
Les nouvelles aventures de Lapinot, tome 1 - Lewis Trondheim
Spirou : L’espoir malgré tout, quatrième partie - Émile Bravo
Les gardiennes du grenier - Oriane Lassus
Projections privées :
Caprice (court-métrage) - Joanna Hogg (via MUBI)
Easter Eggs (court-métrage) - Nicolas Keppens (via MUBI)
Don’t Look Up - Adam McKay
Rambo 4 - Sylvester Stallone
Friendship’s Death - Peter Wollen (via MUBI)
Robin des Bois - Wolfgang Reitherman
Les Traducteurs - Régis Roinsard
Force Majeure - Ruben Östlund
Downton Abbey II : Une Nouvelle Ère - Simon Curtis
Dar-Dar (court-métrage) - Paul Urkijo
Hideous (court-métrage) - Yann Gonzalez
The Bones (court-métrage) - Cristóbal León, Joaquín Cociña
The Amusement Park - George A. Romero
Le Seigneur des Anneaux : Les Anneaux de Pouvoir, saison 1 - J. D Payne, Patrick McKay
Game Of Thrones : House Of The Dragon, saison 1 - George R. R. Martin, Ryan Condal
What We Do In The Shadows, saison 4 - Jemaine Clement, Taika Waititi
Une équipe hors du commun, saison 1 - Abbi Jacobson, Will Graham
Rick et Morty, saison 6 - Justin Roiland, Dan Harmon
See, saison 3 - Steven Knight
Chair Tendre, saison 1 - Yaël Langmann
Découvertes musicales récentes :
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( Northcore - Min Ros / Danit - Cuatro Vientos / RIO - Serena )
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Good news: Irati is currently the highest grossing film in Basque in history!
And if anyone is on Murcia this weekend, Irati will be screened at the beginning of Sombra, the Murcia's Fantasy Cinema Fest in Friday 17 of March, and the director of the film Paul Urkijo and the costume designer Nerea Torrijos will be at the Fest.
#irati 2022#irati#IratiFilm#films#paul urkijo#nerea torrijos#basque cinema#SOMBRA#festival de cine fantástico de murcia#fantasy cinema fest of murcia
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Errementari: el cuento del herrero que engañó al demonio
Si te gustan el misterio, no dejes pasar Errementari, la historia de Patxi El Herrero, que mantuvo a raya al demonio. Reseña de Txaro Cárdenas.
Errementari, de la leyenda al cine
Anoche fui a ver Errementari (El herrero y el diablo) con mi hija de catorce años. Vacaciones, una película en euskera (no son frecuentes, la excepción más reciente ha sido Handia, de la que también hablaré) y la ocasión de que nos contaran un cuento, como hacía yo con ella hace unos años, eran razones más que suficientes para motivarnos. Errementari, el primer…
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Irati, Paul Urkijo Alijo (2022)
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Errementari (2017)
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