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Ricky Martin Presents Gael García Bernal Film He Produced and Stars In at Venice Festival

From La Nación · () Spanish

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  • Ricky Martin attended the Venice Film Festival to present Hombre al agua, a film directed and co-written by Gael García Bernal in which Martin acts and serves as a producer.
  • Martin said storytelling through music, film, theater and literature remains his refuge, and called his first Venice film appearance significant at age 54.
  • The film, shown outside the festival's official competition, combines comedy, melodrama and social criticism around identity, fame and the gaze of others.

For Ricky Martin, art is a refuge, and Venice gave him a new place to pursue it. The Puerto Rican singer and actor arrived at the festival to present Hombre al agua, starring alongside Gael García Bernal, who directed the film and co-wrote it with Argentine playwright Mariano Pensotti.

“ My refuge is telling stories. My refuge is being able to find that vulnerability to convince the audience of what I have experienced or what I have seen that has affected me, and to create a conversation,” Martin told EFE. The film screened outside the festival's official competition and also features Natalia Oreiro, Debora Nascimento, Esmeralda Pimentel, Jorge Salinas and Manuel García Rulfo.

My refuge is telling stories. My refuge is being able to find that vulnerability to convince the audience of what I have experienced or what I have seen that has affected me, and to create a conversation.

· Ricky MartinMartin described why storytelling through music, film and other art forms remains central to his work.

Martin said the Venice appearance felt extraordinary. “Being in Venice is not just anything. Maybe García Bernal is used to it, but I am not. This is wonderful,” he said before the film's screening.

Being in Venice is not just anything. Maybe García Bernal is used to it, but I am not. This is wonderful.

· Ricky MartinHe spoke before the screening about attending the Venice Film Festival.

At 54, Martin said he has expressed himself through music and through the scripts that have moved him. He wants to continue working in front of cameras, in music, theater and literature, while searching for stories, creating them or making other people's stories his own.

In the film, Martin plays an actor hired to portray the lead in a biopic based on García Bernal's character, a Cuban lifeguard. The lifeguard's life changes after he saves a wealthy Mexican businessman, played by Jorge Salinas, and eventually works for him and marries his daughter. The story mixes comic satire, melodrama and social criticism while examining cultural identity and the way others see people. Martin has a small role, but also worked on the film as one of its producers. “For me, for my children and for a legacy,” he said, in the unfinished excerpt provided.

For me, for my children and for a legacy

· Ricky MartinThe excerpt ends as Martin explains the significance of his work at the festival.
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