“El Loco”, trailer for a documentary about Jesus Quintero
His questions were sincere, sharp and natural. His silence, always revealing, was filled with meaning. Jesus Rodriguez Quinterocharismatic Seville journalist known as “Fool on the Hill“, elevated the interview genre. A production that revolutionized Spanish radio and television. A figure for whom RTVE Play pays homage to the original The Fool: Quinter’s Silenceora two-part documentary mini-series that traces his personal and professional life through unpublished archives and exclusive testimony.
His personal style, the use of pauses, deep gazes and long drags of a cigarette when only a small table and a microphone separated him from the interviewee, managed to create an atmosphere in which his protagonists were sincere and set aside his most famous public image. This mini-series features journalism greats such as Angels Barceló, Isabel Gemio or Jose Maria Garcia; but also from your immediate environment, his daughters Andrea and Lola Quinterowho for the first time remembers his figure and his role as a father.
Lola and Andrea, daughters of Jesus Quintero, in the documentary “El Loco”.
El Loco at the Seville Film Festival
The Fool: The Silence of QuinteroThe RTVE Play original film, produced by En Cero Coma, will premiere in November on the RTVE Play platform, but before that it will have its official presentation at the Seville European Film Festival, which will be attended by various journalists and their two daughters.
TV series, director Jose Rueda And Rocío Cañaverasdelves into the career and personal life of the presenter, who has been noted in the Spanish media before and after programs such as Red mice, Green dog or Madman on the Hill The latter becomes an important milestone in journalism, creating its own school and going beyond the national territory. Now this series highlights his contributions and features. unpublished personal archive and exclusive evidence, the fruit of memory his two daughters, Andrea and Lolaand his former partner, journalist Joana Bonet.
This is our first time participating in the event. untold story from the sanest fool on the hill. A professional and sentimental x-ray a complex and fascinating character with over 10,000 hours of interviews and hundreds of hours of what happened behind the cameras when the lights went down. Unpublished moments and reflections that will see the light of day for the first time. The series also explores his unknown personal side as a father and partner.
Poster “El Loco”, original from RTVE Play
Jesus Quintero, a true standard
Jesus Quintero one of this country’s great communicators, a master of interviews And is still the standard for many communicators. With his own style, personality and disruption, he influenced the Spanish media for three decades, until one day he himself became disillusioned with this new media reality to which he did not know or did not want to adapt.
But the documentary does not focus solely on analyzing his professional career and his relationship with the media. “Crazy” too he portrays Quintero himself, the man who is swallowed by the character.
To the snob Quintero, who hid with his clothes that he could not stand the passage of time. A man fascinated by women. To the father who fell into ecstasy looking at his daughters, his little girls; but for whom, however, fatherhood sometimes seemed difficult. A lover of his land who had a spotlight on his roof to illuminate the Giralda in case it went out. And a madman who struggled with his weaknesses.