The snow circlea great success and a great emotion
The snow circledirected by Juan Antonio Bayona and available on Netflix since then January 4, 2024tells the true story of drama of the Andes. On October 13, 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane, with 45 people on board, crashed in the Valley of Tears in Argentina. Of the plane’s 45 occupants, 17 died in the crash and in the 12 hours that followed. Then during the two months of survival that followed, 12 more died.
Finally, on December 21, more than two months after the crash, two of the survivors reached a Chilean valley where they were able to alert emergency services. On December 22 and 23, the 14 survivors who remained at the accident site were rescued. A real drama, but also a miraclewhich JA Bayona tells with realism and respect for the facts in a great cinema film.
The survivors watched the film together
Today, of the 16 survivors of the tragedy, 14 are still alive. Many were consulted by the director and his teams for the production of Le Cercle des neiges. And everyone was invited to a special screening.
They all saw it together, in a cinema in Montevideo, a few months before it was finished. They were afraid because they hadn’t read the script. But they appreciated that their story was told in a realistic and authentic way. For me, as a director, it was a very important moment. It was reassuring to see them and hear their reactions, I felt grateful. I will never forget this day.
In this regard, JA Bayona revealed a video in which some survivors and families of the victims react to the film on X:
We met again some of the survivors of the Andean tragedy and the families of the fallen immediately after seeing “The Snow Ring”. I dare say that this meeting happened thanks to the film. This moving video – testimony of this meeting – has an immeasurable value for us.
Being a privileged witness of the way they hugged each other and feeling, almost touching, the love that existed between them was the greatest reward I received for filming this story. (…)
The fact that a film can bring some peace, perhaps help break down the wall of silence or even be an aid in alleviating the constant pain all these years, clearly demonstrates how important and necessary it was to do so, and how relevant this was task to which we have dedicated ourselves.
Families and survivors moved and grateful
In this video we can hear Carlos Páez, who survived the crash, declare: “The film struck me with the realism of what we were able to experience. A very hard but raw story of friendship and solidarity, and of union.” Another survivor, Robert Canessa, explains that “vor the film is like finding, for a moment, someone who is no longer there“.
But perhaps it is Juan Pedro Nicola, son of the missing Francisco and Esther Nicola, and Stellita Pérez Del Castillo, sister of Marcelo Pérez Del Castillo, captain of the rugby teamwhich best summarize the emotion provided by The snow circle. Juan Pedro Nicola said:
This film is a gift. And I saw that Bayona was very nervous in the cinema lobby. For me, I felt immense gratitude because she healed a wound.
And Stellita Pérez Del Castillo, her voice moved:
I saw my brother on the big screen, and everything I’d kept inside for 50 years came out. He did everything he could. And what I saw of Marcelo didn’t surprise me because I knew who he was. (…) I believe that a path has opened up, which has changed many things in me. Thanks for this movie
Source: Cine Serie
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