10 years of ‘The Impossible’: JA Bayona presents a unique screening of the film in Barcelona

We are celebrating the anniversary of one of those fundamental films in the history of our cinema, a premiere that swept the box office and made a director who was willing to eat Hollywood international. Ten years after the arrival of ‘The Impossible’ in theaters, JA Bayona presents a unique screening of the film in Barcelona.

Next March 4, at 9:00 p.m., the Aribau Cinemathe complex with the largest room in Barcelona, ​​will host the screening of ‘The Impossible’, presented by JA Bayona himself together with María Belón, the survivor of the 2004 Thailand tsunami, on whom the film is based. At the end of the projection, both will participate in a colloquium.

The film introduced us to Maria (Naomi Watts), Henry (Ewan McGregor) and their three children, a family suffering the terrible consequences of the tsunami that devastated several countries along the Indian Ocean in 2004. From that moment on, Maria and his eldest son, Lucas (Tom Holland), will fight to preserve his life and be reunited with the rest of the family.

Without letting the overwhelming formal apparatus of the film overshadow the story, JA Bayona signs a forceful and emotional melodrama about the lossshown in different phases”, pointed out Desirée De Fez in her review of ‘The Impossible’. “Bayona lucidly and emotionally exposes its main themes (childhood, the relationship between mothers and children, education), moves with its form to show the assimilation of loss and closes the film with a mature final gesture that hints that the characters’ journey doesn’t end there”.

Winner of five Goya Awards (production management, editing, sound, special effects and direction)‘The Impossible’ fully entered the list of the best Spanish films of the 21st century and was crowned on the podium of the highest-grossing Spanish films in history with more than 42 million euros collected, data that has only been surpassed until the moment for the 56 million ‘Eight Basque surnames’ (Emilio Martínez-Lázaro, 2014).

“For me today is a day of immense happiness, it is the reward for my entire team after five years of hard work. It is necessary to celebrate that people have returned to the theaters and I feel the news as a triumph of Spanish cinema”, reflected a Bayona was grateful when ‘The Impossible’ became the best premiere in the history of cinema in Spain, months before knowing that its protagonist, Naomi Watts, would be nominated for an Oscar for this work and years before his young discovery, Tom Holland, became one of Marvel’s mainstays as the new Spider-Man.