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ANTARCTICA. Manuel Huerga (Press-book of the film).

ANTÁRTIDA

This is not a film about drugs. Drugs are just an excuse to get the characters to face extreme situations.  Had somebody like Eloy de la Inglesia made the movie it would have been a harsh film. I have made it milder by giving it a magical treatment. I am not interested in the realism of the physical trip the characters take. What I am interested in is in the journey of their souls; their inner trip [...]


Reading "Edie", by Jean Stain was very useful to us. This is a book that tells the story of a girl from a wealthy family, like the Rockefeller's, who moved in the world of Andy Warhol, drugs and fashion of the 1960s.  This has been very interesting to see what goes through María's head, a girl from a good family who gets hooked on drugs. Rafa, despite being a junkie, doesn't dramatize the situation. He has no past or future. His concept of life is far less traumatic [...]


In the movie we neither take a stand in favor or against drugs; what we intend to do is to vindicate the right for drug addicts to have respectable feelings and for them to live - in their own way - a love story. In a certain way, the film's ending is happy because María and Rafa change their lives after going through a hell of a hard time.


MANUEL HUERGA