Jennifer Lopez attends the screening of her new film at Sundance Film Festival

On Sunday, Jennifer Lopez attended the screening of her film “Kiss of the Spider Woman” during the Sundance Film Festival for independent films, and the work received warm applause from the audience.
The musical film, whose story revolves around two people who shared the same cell during the rule of the military dictatorship in Argentina in the 1970s, before an unexpected, strong relationship developed between them, was one of the most anticipated works at this year’s Sundance Festival.

Ability to love

“The main idea of ​​the film is the ability of love to heal any division,” Lopez told AFP on the red carpet, adding that “these two completely different people who are in the same cell, their political beliefs did not constitute a barrier between them.”
She considered that “this type of story is what we need to see now.”
Bill Condon directed this film, adapted from a Broadway musical, based on the novel by Argentine writer Manuel Puig.

Film financing

Condon told AFP that Lopez’s participation undoubtedly helped the film financially, but he knew she was “the only person who could play this role.”
Diego Luna plays Valentin, a strict and idealistic political prisoner who suffers horrific torture at the hands of the regime, but refuses to divulge his revolutionary secrets.
He finds himself forced to live with Molina, a gay prisoner, who has been placed in the same cell to extract information from him.
Molina begins entertaining Valentin with his favorite Hollywood musical starring Lopez in the lead role. The events of the play begin to intertwine with the prison story.

Lopez’s turn

“When I read the role, I told myself that it was written for me, and it was the role that I was born for,” Lopez said.
Josh O’Connor attended the Sundance Film Festival to watch the screening of the film “Rebuilding,” which centers on victims of forest fires, and which gained a special symbolic dimension due to the closeness of its events to many cases in Los Angeles.
The British star plays the character of a cattle rancher who loses his farm in Colorado and all his property due to a devastating fire.
He then finds himself in a national emergency camp, where he must discover a new purpose and build relationships with an unfamiliar community.

More exciting

O’Connor told AFP that the recent Los Angeles fires made the film more poignant, but there were positive parallels that could be drawn.
“One of the things I heard a lot about Los Angeles is the feeling of loneliness in the city,” he added.
He continued, “I think it is the idea that the film revolves around – members of a community coming together to support each other, and that people cannot face disasters alone, and that isolation is not good for humans.”
Earlier at the festival held in Utah, Benedict Cumberbatch attended the screening of his film “The Thing with Feathers,” adapted from the novel.
In this work, Cumberbatch plays the role of a man saddened by the death of his wife, who lives with his two young children.
The Sundance Film Festival continues until Sunday.