All my life I have dreamed of this moment, sometimes dreams come true. With these words, José Luis Garci, director of Start Again, collected the first Oscar awarded to Spanish cinema. Dressed in a white tuxedo, which would become the most recognizable symbol of that milestone, he knew how to stand out and leave a detail of pure telegeny at the moment when all the cameras focused on him during the award ceremony for best foreign film.
Released just two years after the 1981 coup, the film was identified with the image of a Spain that had barely left behind four decades of dictatorship and that was turning to consolidating democracy. Encarna Paso and Antonio Ferrandis starred in it because the director confessed to having a lot of affection for the elderly.
