Johnny Depp returns to the big screen with the photographer of «Minamata»

BARCELONA-AMERICAN actor Johnny Depp, who presented his latest film, "Minamata" in Barcelona (northeast Spain), believes that as the real character he plays, "photographers also leave part of their soul in each photo they take. they do, on every click «.

The film, which is screened at the BCN Film Fest, the Barcelona-sant Jordi international film festival, starts in New York in 1971, where one of the most revered photojournalists of the Second World War, Eugene Smith, goes through a moment crisis and feels disconnected from society and his career after the days of the war.

Everything changes when Life magazine sends him to the Japanese coastal city of Minamata, whose population has been devastated by the poisoning of the waters by mercury, the result of decades of industrial negligence, and then Smith immerses himself in the community and his images give him to disaster a heartbreaking human dimension.

Dressed in a bohemian cap that resembled that of the photographer he plays and with his hands full of rings that would bring him closer to a Caribbean pirate, Deep said at a press conference lasting almost an hour and a half that “being able to investigate the character has been fantastic.

He declared himself "a great admirer of Eugene Smith," a role for which he had the opportunity to get in touch with his work and talk to people who knew him.

Deep illustrated this process of investigation as that of the "archaeologist who is excavating until arriving at a valuable treasure" and recognized that it was "a great responsibility, not only for the life that Smith had, but also for the legacy that he has left us all ».