El Retablo de las Maravillas. Apuntes para una película sobre el Quijote

Is Don Quixote still a reading key for an entire country today? During confinement, Guillermo G. Peydró took notes for a film about the character, 'El Retablo de las Maravillas. Apuntes para una película sobre el Quijote'.

His director now exposes the filming of a film essay on Don Quixote , destined to weave its traces in contemporary Madrid, which is interrupted by the coronavirus pandemic. The project then transitions to a quarantine film, set in an increasingly dystopian city.

'El Retablo de las Maravillas. Apuntes para una película sobre el Quijote' is a film made of burned books, windows and calendars. A quarantine film with lies, fictions, post-truths and confined memory alterations. A film written in forty days of silence, as notes for a future fiction film, in an increasingly less recognizable city. Cervantes, who experienced confinements and pandemics, presides over a game of mirrors between centuries that connects Madrid and Beijing, while filtering the news, gestures and political strategies that come out of the daily press of the nervous, sleepwalking and unreal Madrid of the spring of 2020.

The result of curiosity and research for both the fictional figure of Don Quixote and Cervantes, in this film Peydró represents the pandemic in days of confinement through what had to be a work about Don Quixote that is now , takes the form of a quarantine diary that in turn serves to wonder and relate similar circumstances that Cervantes experienced.