Pedro Almodovar’s incendiary speech

The Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodovar He harshly criticized American leader Donald Trump when he accepted the 50th annual Chaplin award assigned by Film at Lincoln Center, which was awarded in Manhattan on Monday night, informs Variety magazine.

While the renowned Spanish filmmaker expressed gratitude for this award in the showroom Alice Tully Hall, he said: « I had doubts that it was appropriate for me to come to a country led by a narcissistic authority, which does not respect human rights. Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, we cannot convince us that we can not convince us, what we see. No matter how much the words would turn, claiming that they mean the opposite of what I do.

« Donald Trump, I’m talking to you now and I hope you will hear what I will tell you, » continued Pedro Almodovar. « You will remain in history as the greatest mistake of our times. Your naivety is comparable only to your violence. You will remain in history as one of the greatest damages to humanity … you will remain in history as a catastrophe. »

Pedro Almodovar also spoke about the rights of trans persons who are threatened by the Trump administration and spoke about the events in the first part of his life that helped him to train as a director. By increasing Francisco Franco’s fascism, Almodovar said that the films gave him an escape form. As his native country, Spain, embraced democratic ideals in the late 1970s and early 1980s, he had the chance to assert himself as a director.

« It is impossible to explain what that feeling of absolute freedom meant for a young man who wanted to make films, » said the Spanish filmmaker.

He also mentioned until the current that affected his native country on Monday: « I am very worried about what is happening in Spain. As you probably know, there is a current that affects the whole country. So my thoughts are with everyone affected by this situation. »