Josefina Molina: Still Battling After All These Years

, winner of Spain’s 2019 National Cinematography Prize, was glimpsed in her acceptance speech at the San Sebastian Festival on Saturday.

But, having remembered Carmen Alborch and her “intellectual lucidity” and thanked Spanish Vice-president Carmen Calvo for her support of female filmmakers, the brunt of her speech – applauded by Spain’s cultural establishment which packed out the Tabakalera’s main hall – was a salvo fired off at “the shameful, intentional refusal to normalize in society laws of equality approved in Parliament.

The first woman director to receive Spain’s National Cinematography Prize, Molina has always been a pioneer, director-writer Patricia Fereira said in an agile portrait delivered before Molina took to the stage. One is her use of a literary base, whether in her “Vera un cuento cruel,” inspired by a story from French symbolist Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam, or “La Lola se va a los puertos,” from a stage play written by Manuel and Antonio Machado, or “Esquilache,” adapting a play by Antonio Buero Vallejo.Another trait: The focus on the fate of female figures.

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