Cristalino, the brand new sensitivity of Granada that hides behind the 'malafoll' of 'Second Prize' | EUROtoday

There is a scene in 'Second Prize', the film Isaki Lacuesta y Pol Rodriguez about The planets, by which the singer and the guitarist of the group meet in a bar in Granada to attempt to resolve the lifeless finish by which they discover themselves. They may burst bottles of their faces or they might stare on the flooring of the slum whereas the purchasers watch the bulls on tv.

It is an essence that’s properly represented in that scene, by which it’s also explicitly stated that they’re from Granada; They'd kill themselves, however then they simply find yourself saying, 'Well, what can we do now?' Speaks Crystalline, who in 'Second Prize' is the guitarist. You have to know that it was a really masculine setting. And in relationships between males they didn’t know the right way to handle the love they’d for one another, explains the actor. In the tip, you need to get your love out someplace. And right here it’s introduced out with candy gestures, however they’re disguised as one thing not so candy. I believe that malafoll is a bit like that: he’s telling you one thing that sounds very abrupt, however in a manner that’s really even affectionate.

Cristalino, stage identify of Fran Ocete, is aware of properly one of the crucial figuring out indicators of his land, Granada. There he began a folks mission 15 years in the past, Pjaro Jack, which he later deserted to strive his luck with different denominations (Ocete), till lastly arriving at Cristalino. The identify evokes some verse from Pedro Salinas and the sound sinks its roots in various springs, of Triana a Fred Againas might be seen of their current single 'A Z'.

'Second Prize' is his debut as an actor, however his work has already generated consideration that has caught its recipient abruptly. It's curious as a result of the sensation I’ve is that I’ve been making music for a few years, getting very concerned and, as occurs to the characters within the movie, making my life based mostly on it, says Cristalino. I’ve given myself to my songs, to the purpose that they’ve marked my life-style. And though I’ve seen at a sure level that the musical initiatives I’ve had have been fairly properly on their manner, this movie factor is one other degree, it’s one thing else that has by no means occurred to me.

The feeling of getting concerned has been the identical because the one I’ve had all my life, he continues. But abruptly any good opinions I could have had for my music are actually multiplied by a thousand. There are many extra folks, way more publicity, she says within the sluggish tone that matches so properly in her character within the movie, a transcript of Florent Muoz.

The man from Granada feels that now there’s a new starting in his life, a twist within the script that I didn’t count on in any respect. Enthusiastic, however calm, he affirms that he can solely really feel gratitude: It may be very troublesome for what has occurred to me to occur: now we have made a film with my mates, with a director that I really like, who can be being appreciated by the general public and who takes the baton of the unimaginable Granada custom of artists that now we have

And what does he consider the studying that some have needed to make a few homoerotic story between the 2 protagonists about to kill one another within the bar? For me, one of many successes is that it performs between fiction and actuality, she responds. Me, with my mates, the identical ones who seem within the film, we hug rather a lot, now we have that kind of relationship, of give us bodily affection, however not sexual. It is true that in earlier generations it was not seen as a lot between males, as we talked about earlier than. The ambiguity of Lacuesta and Rodríguez utilized to the connection between the singer and the guitarist is, in accordance with Cristalino, an clever determination that additionally connects with a top quality of The Planets, which is to be provocative.