Pedro Almodóvar didn’t maintain again on his opinion of Donald Trump as he accepted the fiftieth annual Chaplin award from Film at Lincoln Center on Monday night.
As the celebrated Spanish filmmaker expressed his gratitude for the glory at Alice Tully Hall, he stated, “I doubted if it was appropriate to come to a country ruled by a narcissistic authority, who doesn’t respect human rights. Trump and his friends, millionaires and oligarchs, cannot convince us that the reality we are seeing with our own eyes is the opposite of what we are living, however much he may twist the words, claiming that they mean the opposite of what they do. Immigrants are not criminals. It was Russia that invaded Ukraine.”
“Mr. Trump, I’m talking to you, and I hope that you hear what I’m going to say to you,” Almodóvar continued. “You will go down in history as the greatest mistake of our time. Your naiveté is only comparable to your violence. You will go down in history as one of the greatest damages to humanity… You will go down in history as a catastrophe.”
Almodóvar additionally spoke out about trans rights and talked concerning the occasions of his youth that helped type him as a filmmaker.
He additionally talked about the blackout that’s at present affecting Spain, saying, “I’m very worried about what is currently going on in Spain. As you may know, there is a power outage that is affecting the whole country. So my thoughts are with everyone impacted by this situation.”
Dua Lipa, John Turturro, John Waters, Rossy de Palma and Mikhail Baryshnikov had been among the many presenters of the glory, which has gone to luminaries from Bette Davis to Cate Blanchett in previous years.
