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Elvira Lindo debuts as a film director: everything you need to know about ‘Someone to take care of me’

Elvira Lindo She has risen to fame for being the creator of Manolito Gafotas and the adventures of the most famous literary character in Carabanchel. With these children’s books she led him to win the National Prize for Children’s and Youth Literature and which was later made into a movie.

Also a screenwriter and journalist, there have been many brilliant literary stories by Elvira Lindo that have been adapted to the movies since she began publishing her first books.

After the success of her children’s narrative series, Manolito Gafotas, the writer signed her first two scripts with Miguel Albadalejos For the movie the first night of my life (1998) and the other neighborhood (1999), his debut novel for adults under the direction of Salvador García Ruiz.

Later they followed Full moonadaptation of the novel by her husband Antonio Muñoz Molina; verbal attack (2000), a word from you (2008), the unexpected life (2014).

In 2010 What I have left to live was published, a sentimental and generational novel. But what was a very special narrative due to its personal nature was open heart (2020), where he turned the story of his parents into fiction.

What makes Elvira Lindo’s way of creating and telling stories special is that the scenes are alive and enjoy a touch of humor and entertainment that makes them unique, and can easily be captured on the big screen.

In someone to take care of meElvira Lindo makes her debut as a film director together with the filmmaker Daniela Fejermanwhere they perfectly reflect a story about universal feelings through three generations of actresses who stage the different social changes that have been experienced in Spain.

What is ‘Someone to Take Care of Me’ about?

The film that bears the name of the book ‘Someone to take care of me’ recounts the complex family relationships between a grandmother, a mother and a daughterthree generations captured very well in the narrative with their different existential concerns.

The secondary characters are many more, but the plot revolves around these three leading women. The actresses who embody them all belong to the world of acting: Grandma Magüi Mira And your daughter, Emma Suarez, who lived the 80s intensely and ended up dedicating himself to cabaret. The trio of the story completes it Aura Garridothe granddaughter who feels closer to her grandmother than to her mother.

The scenes they perform are accompanied by various musical numbers that give them a more casual and picaresque tone, as well as three male characters: Victor Clavijowho plays an actor; Francesc Garridor, a stage manager, and Pedro Mari Sancheza music magazine worker.

Poster 'Someone to take care of me'
Poster ‘Someone to take care of me’
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