A pistol, a woman and the streets of Madrid

Abstract

The 2008 financial crisis produced dramatic changes in Spanish society. Practically, and from one day to the next, more than three million people were unemployed. This swirled and dragged into the previously unthinkable corners the life plans of thousands of citizens. Of those days I remember one night in particular. I was walking through the Ruiz Jiménez roundabout, in Madrid, when I turned a corner and hit a small camp, people who slept sheltered by a ledge of the building on the corner. There must have been almost twenty people. I could not believe it. I used to go through that place every so often and I never saw anything like it. A month earlier, those people were not there. The speed that all that misfortune had taken impressed me. I felt that no one was safe. Years later, these images, which were marked in my memory, collided with one of Jean Luc Godard's famous phrases - "all that is needed in a film is a weapon and a woman" - and resulted in 3 6 5 ( Spain, 2019), my second feature film. The story of a proud woman, who prefers destitution to acknowledging her defeat. A character who walks a path that goes from reality to fantasy; He begins fighting against the circumstances that surround him, and ends up lost in delirium. Reality versus fiction.