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EL PERRO DEL HORTELANO (English title: DOG IN THE MANGER). Pilar Miró (La Vanguardia).

EL PERRO DEL HORTELANO 3

[...] There have been before free versions of Fuenteovejuna and La Celestina, but a screen adaptation of a work from the Golden Age that respects the verse and doesn't resemble a theater play, has not been made until now.


I have always thought that such a thing is a very strange phenomenon. I believe the reason for it might be that historically our film industry was and is still somewhat strange. And lately, when it seemed like Spanish producers were daring to break the existing molds, it turned out that they only did so with young directors who were starting to make films and that the films in question were about issues concerning today's young people. In the meantime, I thought this was an important pending matter, until one day I said to myself: I am the one who is going to do it [...]


Once I decided to tackle a Spanish classic and make a screen version of it - and I knew it was going to be hard to convince a producer as well as finding the appropriate actors -, I looked for a work that was innovative or new for its time and progressive as it veered from the molds of its day. I chose this one: DOG IN THE MANGER because I am absolutely convinced about its efficacy and its timeless nature, i.e. it is of current interest, although it deals with an unusual subject for the 17th century when it was written: a countess who fights for what she wants, for the man she loves, while lying to him and behaving a thousand different ways in order to make him, a commoner, fall in love with her and then marry him.


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