Exclusive interview: Director Ivan Noel of En Tu Ausencia

[Ivan Noel, director of En Tu Ausencia:] So why is my film deemed controversial? ...Dear God, today taking a picture of your own baby child in the bath is controversial! Silly, silly values of a society gone slightly nuts: complete loss of references: hysteria that is causing voluntary amnesia about what being young was about. Again, the predominance of morally regressive values, from a bored and overly wealthy society that has nothing other to do than point fingers just to exist, and score more socially correct points than the neighbor. The worst of it, the most inexcusable and shocking, is that even artists these days partake of that silly game. We live in a new type of Victorian age, and as we now laugh at how they used to cover the legs of pianos, and dress horses up, we will be the laughing stock of future generations. [...]

When I was 11, me and all my friends would spend weekends happily sodomizing each other. When's the last time you saw that in a film? To put in film what young teens ACTUALLY think, feel, and do is something probably not yet fully achieved, and will be for another country, in another age, on another planet, with another religion.

source: 'Exclusive Interview: Director Ivan Noel of En Tu Ausencia'; www.theskykid.com/movies/exclusive-interview-director-ivan-noel-of-en-tu-ausencia/; TheSkyKid.Com; June 2011