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The Spanish director Pedro Martin-Calero is competing for the Golden Shell this year with his debut feature El llanto/The Wailing. It’s a horror film, which is an unusual genre for the Official Selection, and the director himself wrote the screenplay in collaboration with the renowned scriptwriter, Isabel Peña, who regularly works on Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s films. This collaboration has likely allowed the film's background to transcend the pure horror genre, also permitting a social interpretation. In The Wailing, different women in various countries and periods are stalked by a terrifying invisible entity (which is only occasionally captured on camera), and they are never believed. “It is all too common for female victims of violence not to be believed. It makes your hair stand on end,” Peña remarked.
That is why The Wailing is not a topical horror film. The director acknowledged that he is not a “hardcore fan” of the genre either, so the usual references are not too prominent. “I wanted to challenge myself to get away from clichés. This is a different kind of horror film; it’s more subtle and much more psychological than physical. I wanted to avoid the standard aesthetics of the genre,” Martín-Calero explained.
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