The death of a mother is one of the most tragic experiences that can happen to a person, therefore, the director María Ripoll saw the perfect opportunity to address the subject from a comic and dramatic perspective in This will also happen.
The story is based on the novel by writer Milena Busquets, who lost her mother and decided to write this fiction. Ripoll, who read the book when he also lost his own, was dazzled with the theme and decided to make a film about it.
This will also happen He has become a film thanks to Ripoll saw the perfect opportunity to break the sensitivity that covers duel and explore how Blanca (Marina Salas), a 40 -year -old girl, takes refuge in sex to find peace in the absence of her mother.
The duel between mothers and daughters
The mother of the director María Ripoll died and the novel of This will also happen He came to his hands to change his life. A moving story about the duel with which he empathized and led him to want to adapt it to the cinema. Despite how emotional this idea may seem, the filmmaker took a decade to see how this project became a reality: “The rights were acquired. Although the projects do not happen, you can not get stagnant. Ten years later, the producers called me To make the movie, “says Ripoll.
“There are not many films about the duel between mothers and daughters. Each relationship is different, but I wanted to explain it from the female point of view. I really liked the character of Blanca: it is complex, it is full of contradictions, it can be up or down … Each one handles pain as they can And that makes her very human. Marina’s choice as the protagonist has been because she has a quality as an actress that causes her to be at these two extremes, “said the director.
On the other hand, the protagonist has commented that she has been “very enriching” to play this character because “she has been able to be in all the sequences of the film and that gives you many opportunities to discover it.”
Marina Salas plays Blanca: a young woman who dealt with the duel for her mother’s death in ‘This will also happen’. Go to Bordera / RTVE
The imperfect duel
Blanca’s character tries Practice constant sex With multiple men. Her new lover, her ex -partner … the protagonist Live a constant chaos That the director catalogs as “an imperfect duel”: “He needs light experiences to cope with him, how to bathe in the sea, be with her children, with her lovers …”, says Ripoll.
Sadness happens, joy happens, the good happens, the bad happens. One of the concepts that the film is about is how Feelings are ephemeral. How those emotions that one can experience in their day to day, such as sadness in the case of a loss, are passengers. To explain this concept, Blanca’s mother (Susi Sánchez) made him see through a story and she did the same with her children, years later.
“The movie talks about the passenger quality of life: there is good and bad. It is beautiful because facing life from there and understanding that Things are finitethat end, that we pass through here, that We will also leave heremakes you more valuing life, “confesses Salas in a deep message that its director supports:” The film has that life value. It makes you more in the present. It is a positive concept Because, for example, I am having a lot of fun at a party, but I don’t try to grab and stay until six in the morning simply because I am thinking about it. Knowing that things and beliefs are finite makes you live more in the present, “says Ripoll.
“It’s an ode to mothers”
It is possible that Some spectator That the film is living is living a process similar to Blanca with a recently deceased mother, so both give advice on how they should carry that grieving process: “Look, the first thing you have to do is enter the cinema to see this because it is an imperfect duel and You will feel relieved. It is luminous and the path that Blanca makes is overcoming and oversizing that the absences are painful, sometimes, they make you yourself. That people do not think they will see a film of pain and darkness, but vice versa. The movie is doing well to the soul, “says the filmmaker.
The actresses Marina Salas and Susi Sánchez with the writer Milena Busquets in the filming of ‘This will also happen’. Go to Bordera / RTVE
“It’s an ode to mothers. The absence destroys inside, You have to rebuild and accept everything Through these love letters. You have to explain what you feel and communicate it for the first time. He does it very really, “says Ripoll.
The director and the actress continue to promote a very sentimental film where the emotional layers that are discovered as the minutes advance. The great irony of life: the relationship between a mother and a daughter is more alive than ever when one of them has already died.
