Crazy For You

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The story is also very inspired by my childhood. My parents are classical musicians, so they traveled a lot, and I often stayed with a family who had lived in this small town for generations. They’re like a second family to me, and actually many of them appear in the film. One of the traditions there is bull dodging, and I grew up going to these events with a very contradictory feeling. On one hand, I felt terrible for the cows and bulls in the ring. But on the other hand, I couldn’t wait to be noticed by the boys who were dodging them. And I remember that while I was searching for the gaze of the boy I liked, I would often end up locking eyes with the cow instead. Cows have incredibly human eyes, full of emotion, and I always had this feeling that they were looking straight at me, like they were trying to tell me something—usually something like, “please save me, take me out of here.” The fantastical element of the film really comes from that memory. In a strange way, I realized that I was also part of that same patriarchal game—just like the cow, I was being “seduced” by men waving their red flags (lol), and when I was finally ready to run toward them, they would dodge me at the last second.