Myocardium

“First came the idea for the story. I really liked the idea of telling how a good or bad experience is recounted to yourself, as an author recounts it to the world, and when you compare that story with someone else’s story. I really liked that idea, and I combined it with Nietzsche’s idea of eternal return, which is very present right now, and I wanted to convey that time is not linear, that it repeats itself in loops, and that life repeats itself constantly, and to turn it all into a luminous vision: in life, this will happen to you and you have the opportunity to face it in a different way, with everything you have learned before.

I also really like talkative films, and here I wanted to use that to deconstruct comedy, with the archetypes of the orderly guy and the girl who comes along and turns his life upside down, so that the female character wasn’t the savior; Marina’s character doesn’t come to save anyone. I wanted to bring all this together, and the reunion of an old couple always provides a lot of material, so I combined it and, of course, the big issue of mental health.

Depression and anxiety are there, and I wanted to talk about this topic from a positive perspective, not from a negative one, which is why there are four stages, and in each one, we close chapters and heal wounds.”

– José Manuel Carrasco, Director