The controversial Edoardo Casanova returns with an eschatological vampire metaphor

to Eduardo Casanova (Madrid, 1991) Some sectors are keen on it. It’s something that’s easy to track on social media. The last episode happened when he passed Maria Leon by Revolution To enhance silencewas released on Movistar Plus+ on January 1. The three-act series, about 20 minutes long, deals, in its extravagant and uncomfortable style, with the question of the way we currently live with AIDS patients.

Although he was not very eloquent, Casanova made clear something that the World Health Organization has acknowledged: that people with AIDS who are properly treated and maintain an undetectable viral load cannot transmit the disease. This means that “undetectable equals non-transmissible”.

However, many Accounts associated with the far right began accusing him of misinformationWithout realizing that their ignorance of the subject led them to commit what they accused the director of.

However, if it weren’t for those sublime narratives that gave the series greater impact than it originally would have, we probably wouldn’t have started writing about it. and What we find funny.

One of those accounts is eligible silencedefinitely without seeing it, like “shit”. It does not seem that this characteristic would bother the director, as all of his works do An ode to eschatology. “You have to try the shared eating process, it’s funny,” says one of the vampires in the lead role. silence To his daughter.

We continue in the series A line of blood-sucking females From the fourteenth century to the present. In the first act, we attend a secret meeting of four sisters discussing what to do in the face of a shortage of clean human blood caused by the Black Death.

In the second part, which takes place in the 1980s, we follow the conversation between a vampire and her daughter, and see how The consumption of artificial blood has caused a total conflict between generations. In the third part, the young girl lives a passionate love story with a drug addict (the wonderful and courageous Maria Leon) who discovers that she is infected with AIDS.

In general, silence He uses vampirism to tell us about the social condemnation of those affected by the said disease. The metaphor works well, although it’s not round.

It is true that Casanova’s show, naturally provocative, is not to all tastes: Kitsch, minimalist and colonial in various shades of pink, which contrasts strongly with the cruelty of many of the images that serve us, from heroin shots to fang extraction.

But it is also true that in the face of a rather outdated audio-visual panorama, silence Previous works such as Skins (2017) and Mercy (2022) offers different experiences, something like pinching yourself with a bruise. It’s not entirely originalWell, we can see the influence of Almodovar I, or John Waters, or Todd Sollons, or even David Lynch, but he has character.

anyway, silence It’s still a simple task – it should be about an hour of footage in total – but it maintains the hallmarks of Casanova, Perhaps a little more contained than on previous occasions. In a way, it enters the margins of the story of social condemnation and, above all, contains very funny dialogues and performances by actresses like the aforementioned María León, Lucía Diez, Mariola Fuentes, Ana Polvorosa, and Leticia Dolera, almost always buried behind a latex layer of pure ugliness.

In short, a political tragedy that highlights an important issue without falling into the obvious, and that, If you let yourself go, you will end up being seduced. Although we will not know if there will be many brave people who will dare to do so.