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Just a story

Otsoaren ipuina
Véronique Caplain
Irudigilea: Grégoire Mabire
Itzulpena: Aiora Jaka
Ttarttalo, 2015
28 orrialde; haurrentzat

"Dad?" Do you read us a story?” This naïve question is the one that starts this album and it seems that it will become more complicated as it progresses what seems such a simple and innocent thing.

The story of the wolf is the title of this book by Véronique Caplain and Grégoire Mabire and among us, among humans, if the wolf has always seen itself as an evil, strong and violent animal, which attacks and kills, think of the goats... Father Aker and puppies Antton and Xixili are the protagonists of this story.

The storytellers, the two who tell us the story through text and images, not only tell us the story between the father and the children, but also tell us the story of the book the father reads, creating a nice game that creates parallel situations between them. The father began to read: “It’s winter and it’s cold outside. In the forest, a wolf seeks food. He has spent days and days without eating and is hungry, so hungry, that his teeth start to tremble: KLA! KLA! KLA!” At the time, they heard a strange noise outside. KLA! KLA! KLA! (…) Back to our story: “The citizens are so afraid, so afraid, that they have locked the doors. KLIK KLAK!” At the time, they heard a strange noise in the house: KLIK KLAK!”

They feel that the situations in the book that the father reads are repeated in his house, in his surroundings; and the kids are frightened. "Will it be a wolf?" (…) Well! It is not possible. There is no wolf in our forests.”

And with Dad's response, it seems like kids are calming down.

However, the viewer will notice that despite giving that answer to the little ones, there is more and more anguish, more fear in the gaze of the male goat father.

In the end, of course, you look for the reader's smile. Those brave men who are afraid that their dad too can hide and hide under the cushions! And then the little ones, "It's a story. Just a story,” the book ends (the book they were reading under their arm, quiet, playing in the chair, with a face of wonder and curiosity, hidden under the cushions, looking at the father who only has half face to view).

In addition to this narrative that appears in history, there are many other things that are explained to us through the images. Descriptions of feelings and sensations, intention to channel the viewer’s most important gaze through the simplicity of spaces and places… and also the presence of dad at home, doing homework, cooking, washing and hanging clothes, assuming the children’s responsibility. I mean, this wolf story is a curious story that, in addition to having a sense of humor, you can look at many other things.

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