The Center of the Carme Culture Contemporary (CCCC) dedicates its next session of the cycle 'CCCCaves para el cine', which will take place on Wednesday 25 of March, to cinematographic costumes from the hand of designer Sonia Grande (Oviedo, 1964).
Winner of two Goyas and Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts, Sonia Grande has worked for Woody Allen, Pedro Almodóvar or Alejandro Amenábar and has dressed important actresses and actors such as Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, Sharon Stone, Penelope Cruz, Scarlett Johansson, Maribel Verdú, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, Emma Stone, Owen Wilson, Alec Baldwin, Javier Bardem, Ernesto Alterio or José Coronado.
Under the title 'The keys to cinematographic costume design' and accompanied by the filmmaker Rafael Maluenda, the Center del Carme welcomes one of the great costume designers of contemporary cinema, which has a long history in Europe and the United States.
During the talk Grande will address the narrative power of costumes in cinema, his working method and his creative process based on reading and interpreting the script. He will explain his close collaboration with the actors, something, for Big, essential, y, especially, with the directors: the methods of Woody Allen or Pedro Almodóvar.
Sonia Grande has revealed that her job consists of fully understanding the director's intentions and creating the costumes keeping them in mind..
According to Maluenda, “Great will bring us closer to the value of fabrics, of the textures, the volumes and color as a narrative contribution that explains who the character is and what happens to the character, as well as differences with costumes in the theater, medium in which it began with the help of Miguel Narros, “Andrea D’Odorico and Francisco Nieva”.
Grande has been nominated for the Goya eleven times, winning it twice ('The apple of your eye'; 'While the war lasts', 2019). In 2015, He was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts. Account, besides, with international awards and nominations that also recognize the excellence of their cinematographic achievements.
Woody Allen designer, Almodóvar and Amenábar
His extraordinary work for the film 'The Others’ (2001), by Alejandro Amenábar, the recognition of Nicole Kidman and the satisfaction of Tom Cruise as producer of the film, They opened the doors of international cinematography to Sonia Grande.
Grande is an essential collaborator of Woody Allen, with six films (‘Midnight in Paris’, 2011; 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona', 2008; ‘To Rome with love, 2012; 'Magic in the moonlight', 2015; ‘Rifkin’s Festival’, 2020; 'Blow of luck', 2023); by Pedro Almodóvar, with four ('Talk to her', 2002; 'Broken hugs', 2009; 'Juliet', 2016; ‘The human voice, 2020); and Alejandro Amenábar, with four ('The others', 2001; 'In the sea', 2004; 'Regression', 2015; 'While the war lasts', 2019).
From among his extensive filmography, stand out, besides, ‘Bunker’ (Florian Zeller, 2026), 'Everyone knows it’ (Asghar Farhadi, 2018), 'The mountain range’ (Santiago Miter, 2017), ‘Z, the lost city’ (James Gray, 2016), 'Kathmandu’ (Iciar Bollain, 2011), 'It's not that easy’ (Nancy Meyers, 2009), 'The blind sunflowers’ (J.L.. Rope, 2008), 'Romansanta’, ‘The hunt for the beast’ (Paco Plaza, 2004), 'No news from God’ (A. Diaz Yanes, 2001), 'The apple of your eye’ (Fernando Trueba, 1998).
