Exclusive: Vmi Releasing, the North American distribution arm of Vmi Worldwide, has picked up North American rights to Spanish filmmaker Fernando Trueba’s latest pic Haunted Heart, starring Matt Dillon.
Vmi acquired the pic from Film Constellation. Oscar-winner Trueba directs the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rylend Grant. Starring alongside Dillon are Goya-nominated Aida Folch (The Artist and the Model) and Juan Pablo Urrego (Memoria).
Set on a beautiful remote island in Greece, a young and spirited Alex (Folch) joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her femme-fatale charm quickly winning the heart of the charismatic Enrico, she instead falls for the enigmatic restaurant manager Max (Dillon), a reclusive American, who settled on the island decades ago. As the seasons pass, sexual tensions rise, and tourists come and go, Enrico begins to unearth disturbing clues about Max’s dark and mysterious past.
Vmi acquired the pic from Film Constellation. Oscar-winner Trueba directs the film from a screenplay he co-wrote with Rylend Grant. Starring alongside Dillon are Goya-nominated Aida Folch (The Artist and the Model) and Juan Pablo Urrego (Memoria).
Set on a beautiful remote island in Greece, a young and spirited Alex (Folch) joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her femme-fatale charm quickly winning the heart of the charismatic Enrico, she instead falls for the enigmatic restaurant manager Max (Dillon), a reclusive American, who settled on the island decades ago. As the seasons pass, sexual tensions rise, and tourists come and go, Enrico begins to unearth disturbing clues about Max’s dark and mysterious past.
- 5/14/2024
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
“20,000 Species of Bees,” (Estibaliz Urresola)
One of the big winners at Berlin, taking Leading Performance, and now racking up healthy sales, the story of a family off for a village summer holiday which builds to a moving ode to women’s freedoms. Sales: Luxbox
“21 Paraíso,” (Nestor Ruiz Medina)
Living in an idyllic Andalusia, a couple in love grapples with the realities of making a living through OnlyFans. Screened at Seville and Tallinn. Sales: Begin Again Films.
“All the Names of God,” (Daniel Calparsoro)
One of the big Spanish action-thrillers hitting this Cannes market, from a specialist (“Sky High”). Pre-sold to France (Kinovista), Germany and Italy (Koch Media) with Tripictures releasing in Spain. Sales: Latido
“Un amor,” (Isabel Coixet)
The multi-prized Coixet (“The Secret Life of Words”).
directs Goya winner Laia Costa (“Lullaby”) in a village-set study of an isolated woman’s succumbing to devouring passion. Sales: Film Constellation.
“Ashes in the Sky,...
One of the big winners at Berlin, taking Leading Performance, and now racking up healthy sales, the story of a family off for a village summer holiday which builds to a moving ode to women’s freedoms. Sales: Luxbox
“21 Paraíso,” (Nestor Ruiz Medina)
Living in an idyllic Andalusia, a couple in love grapples with the realities of making a living through OnlyFans. Screened at Seville and Tallinn. Sales: Begin Again Films.
“All the Names of God,” (Daniel Calparsoro)
One of the big Spanish action-thrillers hitting this Cannes market, from a specialist (“Sky High”). Pre-sold to France (Kinovista), Germany and Italy (Koch Media) with Tripictures releasing in Spain. Sales: Latido
“Un amor,” (Isabel Coixet)
The multi-prized Coixet (“The Secret Life of Words”).
directs Goya winner Laia Costa (“Lullaby”) in a village-set study of an isolated woman’s succumbing to devouring passion. Sales: Film Constellation.
“Ashes in the Sky,...
- 5/19/2023
- by John Hopewell and Pablo Sandoval
- Variety Film + TV
London and Paris-based production, finance and sales outfit Film Constellation has inked a first raft of pre-sales on romantic thriller “Haunted Heart” by Academy Award-winning director Fernando Trueba (“Belle Époque”), and starring Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon (“Crash”).
The film sold in Latin America (California Filmes), Italy (Plaion), Greece and Turkey (Tanweer) and Cis (Nashe Kino). Film Constellation has unveiled the first still from the film, and will be introducing a teaser promo to buyers during the American Film Market this week.
The English-language film, also starring Aida Folch (“The Artist and the Model”) and Juan Pablo Urrego (“Memoria”), is shooting in Greece.
The film is set on a remote island in Greece, where Alex joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her femme-fatale charm quickly winning the heart of the charismatic Enrico, she instead falls for the enigmatic restaurant manager Max, a reclusive American,...
The film sold in Latin America (California Filmes), Italy (Plaion), Greece and Turkey (Tanweer) and Cis (Nashe Kino). Film Constellation has unveiled the first still from the film, and will be introducing a teaser promo to buyers during the American Film Market this week.
The English-language film, also starring Aida Folch (“The Artist and the Model”) and Juan Pablo Urrego (“Memoria”), is shooting in Greece.
The film is set on a remote island in Greece, where Alex joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her femme-fatale charm quickly winning the heart of the charismatic Enrico, she instead falls for the enigmatic restaurant manager Max, a reclusive American,...
- 11/1/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Production, finance and sales company Film Constellation has boarded sales on the upcoming romantic thriller “Haunted Heart” by Academy Award winning director Fernando Trueba.
The film stars Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon (“The House That Jack Built”), Goya-nominated Aida Folch (“The Artist and the Model”), and Juan Pablo Urrego (“Memoria”). The English-language film is set to start shooting in Greece in September.
The film is set on a beautiful remote island in Greece, where young and spirited Alex joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her femme-fatale charm quickly winning the heart of the charismatic Enrico, she instead falls for the enigmatic restaurant manager Max, a reclusive American, who settled on the island decades ago.
As the seasons pass, sexual tensions rise, and tourists come and go, Enrico begins to unearth disturbing clues about Max’s dark and mysterious past. Blinded by her feelings,...
The film stars Academy Award nominee Matt Dillon (“The House That Jack Built”), Goya-nominated Aida Folch (“The Artist and the Model”), and Juan Pablo Urrego (“Memoria”). The English-language film is set to start shooting in Greece in September.
The film is set on a beautiful remote island in Greece, where young and spirited Alex joins the team of a boutique seaside restaurant as their new waitress. Despite her femme-fatale charm quickly winning the heart of the charismatic Enrico, she instead falls for the enigmatic restaurant manager Max, a reclusive American, who settled on the island decades ago.
As the seasons pass, sexual tensions rise, and tourists come and go, Enrico begins to unearth disturbing clues about Max’s dark and mysterious past. Blinded by her feelings,...
- 9/9/2022
- by Leo Barraclough
- Variety Film + TV
Antonia Nava’s Barcelona-based Neo Art Producciones has teamed with Rome’s Pupkin Production to co-produce gay romantic drama “Si las paredes hablasen” (“If Walls Had Ears”), the feature debut of Spanish femme director, Ceres Machado.
Scheduled to roll by this year-end or the first quarter of 2023 in Barcelona and Rome, the film will be produced by Nava and Pupkin’s Rita Rognoni.
Spanish actor Fernando Tejero is attached to star in a cast that will combine Spanish and Italian actors.
Co-written by Machado and scribe Salva Martos Cortés (“Maniac Tales”), “If Walls had Ears” will narrate, in 10 sequences, a Barcelona and Rome-set story of intense love, passion and pain between two men.
They are Juan, a 50 year-old married man who hides his homosexuality, and Leonardo, a 23-year Italian who arrives in Barcelona to try his luck as a soccer player.
Over a decade, they will live their romance, but...
Scheduled to roll by this year-end or the first quarter of 2023 in Barcelona and Rome, the film will be produced by Nava and Pupkin’s Rita Rognoni.
Spanish actor Fernando Tejero is attached to star in a cast that will combine Spanish and Italian actors.
Co-written by Machado and scribe Salva Martos Cortés (“Maniac Tales”), “If Walls had Ears” will narrate, in 10 sequences, a Barcelona and Rome-set story of intense love, passion and pain between two men.
They are Juan, a 50 year-old married man who hides his homosexuality, and Leonardo, a 23-year Italian who arrives in Barcelona to try his luck as a soccer player.
Over a decade, they will live their romance, but...
- 3/24/2022
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Mediaset España, Spain’s top-rated broadcaster, is reinforcing its content strategy with the launch of new brand Mediterráneo to integrate its affiliate production companies, as it unveils a strong TV drama slate for the 2018-19 TV season.
With a €40 million-€50 million ($45.30-$56.60 million) annual investment, Me represents a key pillar for the Spanish TV fiction sector. Currently it has 12 series projects underway, totaling 150 hours of TV drama production.
Newest TV fiction projects takes in Aitor Gabilondo’s “Madres,” Verónica Fernández’s “Caronte,” and Curro Royo and Miguel Angel Fernández’s “Desaparecidos.”
Me’s ambitious TV drama pipeline announcement comes amidst a Spanish TV fiction boom, with a spectacular increase of local series production -from 6 to 14 for the period 2014-17 – and new players such as Movistar + and Netflix aiming respectively around 14 and 12 original series for next year.
The move also comes after Atresmedia, Me’s main rival at the Spanish free-to-air TV market,...
With a €40 million-€50 million ($45.30-$56.60 million) annual investment, Me represents a key pillar for the Spanish TV fiction sector. Currently it has 12 series projects underway, totaling 150 hours of TV drama production.
Newest TV fiction projects takes in Aitor Gabilondo’s “Madres,” Verónica Fernández’s “Caronte,” and Curro Royo and Miguel Angel Fernández’s “Desaparecidos.”
Me’s ambitious TV drama pipeline announcement comes amidst a Spanish TV fiction boom, with a spectacular increase of local series production -from 6 to 14 for the period 2014-17 – and new players such as Movistar + and Netflix aiming respectively around 14 and 12 original series for next year.
The move also comes after Atresmedia, Me’s main rival at the Spanish free-to-air TV market,...
- 11/1/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Cast includes Kierston Wareing, Dominique Pinon and Frank Leboeuf.
Film Seekers has added Spanish filmmaker Alberto Sciamma’s travel comedy I Love My Mum to its slate ahead of the upcoming American Film Market.
Written and directed by Sciamma, whose previous films include 2015’s Blood Trap and 2003’s Jericho Mansions, I Love My Mum centres Olga and her son Ron, who accidentally exile themselves from England to Morocco. They must find their way across the Mediterranean in an absurd attempt to immigrate back home.
The cast includes Kierston Wareing (Fish Tank), Dominique Pinon (Amélie), former football star Frank Leboeuf, Aida Folch...
Film Seekers has added Spanish filmmaker Alberto Sciamma’s travel comedy I Love My Mum to its slate ahead of the upcoming American Film Market.
Written and directed by Sciamma, whose previous films include 2015’s Blood Trap and 2003’s Jericho Mansions, I Love My Mum centres Olga and her son Ron, who accidentally exile themselves from England to Morocco. They must find their way across the Mediterranean in an absurd attempt to immigrate back home.
The cast includes Kierston Wareing (Fish Tank), Dominique Pinon (Amélie), former football star Frank Leboeuf, Aida Folch...
- 10/28/2018
- by Ben Dalton
- ScreenDaily
Paramount Network has put in development thriller drama I Know Who You Are, based on the 2017 Spanish limited series Sé quién eres. The project hails from The Last Ship co-creator Steven Kane, director David Semel (Star Trek: Discovery) and CBS TV Studios.
Written by Kane and directed by Semel, I Know Who You Are is a missing-person thriller that follows a morally ambiguous celebrity journalist who awakens from a car accident as a suspect in the disappearance of his own niece.
The 16-episode Spanish series, created by Pau Freixas for Telecino, premiered in January 2017 and starred Blanca Portillo, Francesc Garrido, Carles Francino, Eva Santolaria and Aida Folch. You can see a trailer below.
Kane and Semel executive produce along with Tripp Vinson (Red Dawn), Lucas Carter and Alex Coscas. This marks a collaboration between Paramount Network and CBS Studios as the two companies’ parents, Paramount and CBS, are negotiating a merger.
Written by Kane and directed by Semel, I Know Who You Are is a missing-person thriller that follows a morally ambiguous celebrity journalist who awakens from a car accident as a suspect in the disappearance of his own niece.
The 16-episode Spanish series, created by Pau Freixas for Telecino, premiered in January 2017 and starred Blanca Portillo, Francesc Garrido, Carles Francino, Eva Santolaria and Aida Folch. You can see a trailer below.
Kane and Semel executive produce along with Tripp Vinson (Red Dawn), Lucas Carter and Alex Coscas. This marks a collaboration between Paramount Network and CBS Studios as the two companies’ parents, Paramount and CBS, are negotiating a merger.
- 4/10/2018
- by Nellie Andreeva
- Deadline Film + TV
Don't worry, he's a good man, but an artist.
A young Catalan girl, Mercè (Aida Folch), has escaped Franco's Spain and found herself in a cozy French town (occupied by the Nazis). Mercè is spotted by Léa (Claudia Cardinale) as a potential model for her husband Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort), a sculptor. In another film, this could well be the start of some very nefarious doings, but in The Artist and the Model (2013), things are exactly as advertised. The hungry refugee takes the job and, the next day, finds herself standing, au natural, moving at the direction of this remote, elderly artist. He gives little consolation or explanation to the young woman, single-mindedly searching for "an idea." He sketches, sculpts, and paints her in many poses, but never to his liking. The world around him is at war, but he stands in his safe little corner surrounded by naked women,...
A young Catalan girl, Mercè (Aida Folch), has escaped Franco's Spain and found herself in a cozy French town (occupied by the Nazis). Mercè is spotted by Léa (Claudia Cardinale) as a potential model for her husband Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort), a sculptor. In another film, this could well be the start of some very nefarious doings, but in The Artist and the Model (2013), things are exactly as advertised. The hungry refugee takes the job and, the next day, finds herself standing, au natural, moving at the direction of this remote, elderly artist. He gives little consolation or explanation to the young woman, single-mindedly searching for "an idea." He sketches, sculpts, and paints her in many poses, but never to his liking. The world around him is at war, but he stands in his safe little corner surrounded by naked women,...
- 3/29/2014
- by Jason Ratigan
- JustPressPlay.net
★★★☆☆ Shot in sumptuous monochrome, Fernando Trueba's thoughtful 2012 film The Artist and The Model - starring French character actor Jean Rochefort - adds to the director's already eclectic oeuvre, making for satisfying viewing. Set in the rural south of France in the middle of the Second World War, we meet ageing, semi-retired sculptor Marc (Rochefort) who lives with his thickly bespectacled housekeeper and wife Léa (played by Italian bombshell Claudia Cardinale), who is now in her seventies. Their life is simplistic and gentle, experiencing little impact from the war that rages on in the north of the occupied country.
The tone of The Artist and The Model is warm and reflective, centred on the contrasting dynamic of the gypsy-like Mercè (Aida Folch) - housed by our couple after escaping war-torn Spain - and the wizened, yet passionate Marc. The arrival of the young girl inspires the artist to once again...
The tone of The Artist and The Model is warm and reflective, centred on the contrasting dynamic of the gypsy-like Mercè (Aida Folch) - housed by our couple after escaping war-torn Spain - and the wizened, yet passionate Marc. The arrival of the young girl inspires the artist to once again...
- 9/22/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
Fernando Trueba's meditation upon the nature of art offers few surprises, but is easy on the eye
Spanish director Fernando Trueba has an extraordinarily eclectic back catalogue, ranging from the twisted Peter Pan weirdness of The Mad Monkey (featuring Jeff Goldblum's most underrated performance) through the lush Oscar-winning charm of Belle Epoque, to the sensual jazz-inflected animation of Chico & Rita. His latest is a whimsical black-and-white meditation upon the nature of art, set in rural southern France during the second world war.
Here, sculptor Marc Cros (octogenarian Jean Rochefort, who came so close to playing Don Quixote for Terry Gilliam – a marriage made in heaven) takes in Spanish political refugee Mercè (Aida Folch) on the understanding that she will pose for him, reigniting his flagging artistic passion. With Jean-Claude Carrière sharing screenwriting credits, this holds few surprises in its revelatory conclusions about old men and young women, war and peace,...
Spanish director Fernando Trueba has an extraordinarily eclectic back catalogue, ranging from the twisted Peter Pan weirdness of The Mad Monkey (featuring Jeff Goldblum's most underrated performance) through the lush Oscar-winning charm of Belle Epoque, to the sensual jazz-inflected animation of Chico & Rita. His latest is a whimsical black-and-white meditation upon the nature of art, set in rural southern France during the second world war.
Here, sculptor Marc Cros (octogenarian Jean Rochefort, who came so close to playing Don Quixote for Terry Gilliam – a marriage made in heaven) takes in Spanish political refugee Mercè (Aida Folch) on the understanding that she will pose for him, reigniting his flagging artistic passion. With Jean-Claude Carrière sharing screenwriting credits, this holds few surprises in its revelatory conclusions about old men and young women, war and peace,...
- 9/14/2013
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
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Rush (15)
(Ron Howard, 2013, Us/Ger/UK) Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde. 122 mins
In the tyre tracks of Senna comes another Formula One thrill ride, dramatising the Hunt vs Lauda rivalry that peaked in 1976. And again, it's hard to resist, even for non-fans. There's track action aplenty but the core is a clash of opposites: Hunt the debonair playboy vs Lauda the cold calculator (Brühl is terrific). To watch, it's more of a Hunt: playing fast and loose with the facts, but easy enough on the eye to get away with it.
In A World… (15)
(Lake Bell, 2013, Us) Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Michaela Watkins. 93 mins
Bell creates a fine showcase for her own versatility with this satire of the cut-throat...
Rush (15)
(Ron Howard, 2013, Us/Ger/UK) Daniel Brühl, Chris Hemsworth, Olivia Wilde. 122 mins
In the tyre tracks of Senna comes another Formula One thrill ride, dramatising the Hunt vs Lauda rivalry that peaked in 1976. And again, it's hard to resist, even for non-fans. There's track action aplenty but the core is a clash of opposites: Hunt the debonair playboy vs Lauda the cold calculator (Brühl is terrific). To watch, it's more of a Hunt: playing fast and loose with the facts, but easy enough on the eye to get away with it.
In A World… (15)
(Lake Bell, 2013, Us) Lake Bell, Fred Melamed, Michaela Watkins. 93 mins
Bell creates a fine showcase for her own versatility with this satire of the cut-throat...
- 9/14/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The usual male-gaze reservations apply to this film that romantises the relationship between an aged artist and a young woman. The ravishing shooting style soon wears off
Another movie romanticising the relationship between an aged artist and a younger woman; the usual male-gaze reservations apply, and somehow it's more dubious that it's a refugee (Aida Folch) sheltered by a French sculptor (Jean Rochefort) during the Occupation. Shot in that classic-era Blancanieves monochrome, Fernando Trueba's film is initially ravishing to behold. Yet in the absence of much dramatic heft, its complacent beauty soon wears off; set it against Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse, a far more rigorous interrogation of this dynamic, and it's but a lightly shimmering afterthought.
Rating: 2/5
World cinemaDramaMike McCahill
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Another movie romanticising the relationship between an aged artist and a younger woman; the usual male-gaze reservations apply, and somehow it's more dubious that it's a refugee (Aida Folch) sheltered by a French sculptor (Jean Rochefort) during the Occupation. Shot in that classic-era Blancanieves monochrome, Fernando Trueba's film is initially ravishing to behold. Yet in the absence of much dramatic heft, its complacent beauty soon wears off; set it against Rivette's La Belle Noiseuse, a far more rigorous interrogation of this dynamic, and it's but a lightly shimmering afterthought.
Rating: 2/5
World cinemaDramaMike McCahill
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- 9/12/2013
- by Mike McCahill
- The Guardian - Film News
Having delved triumphantly into the world of animation, director Fernando Trueba returns with The Artist and the Model, a film so beautifully arranged, that it doesn’t feel too far removed from the enchanting world which he created in the Oscar nominated Chico & Rita. Animated or not, the Spaniard evidently knows how to tell a story of two people coming together, and whether they be romantic or plutonic, they both have a similarly emotive effect on the viewer.
Though contemplating retirement alongside his wife Léa (Claudia Cardinale), elderly sculptor Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort) finds himself reinvigorated following the arrival of the young Spanish refugee Mercé (Aida Folch), discovering hope amidst the brutal World War that erupts in the distance. After she agrees to model nude for the sculptor, he feels sensually impassioned and enthusiastic about art for the first time in a good, long while.
We aren’t provided with...
Though contemplating retirement alongside his wife Léa (Claudia Cardinale), elderly sculptor Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort) finds himself reinvigorated following the arrival of the young Spanish refugee Mercé (Aida Folch), discovering hope amidst the brutal World War that erupts in the distance. After she agrees to model nude for the sculptor, he feels sensually impassioned and enthusiastic about art for the first time in a good, long while.
We aren’t provided with...
- 9/10/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Title: The Artist and the Model (El artista y la modelo) Cohen Media Group Director: Fernando Trueba Screenwriter: Jean-Claude Carrière, Fernando Trueba Cast: Claudia Cardinale, Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch Screened at: Review 2, NYC, 7/23/13 Opens: August 2, 2013 I suspect that first-rate artists have more wisdom than the rest of us, and that we, members of the great majority, should feel lucky if we can at least appreciate their offerings. Mozart gave us great music, Tolstoy terrific literature, and Matisse wonderful, inventive paintings. People like these seem to know more about life than most. Take for example Marc Cros (Jean Rochfort), the principal performer in Fernando Trueba’s Spanish film [ Read More ]
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- 8/22/2013
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
France during the war is a perennial setting for filmmakers wishing to impart some quality gravity to their story. The moral stakes are high and clear, the Americans can always be relied upon for a final-act deus ex machina, and everyone just looks so glamorous. Plus, all the international cinema prizes are selected by juries who were young boys at the time, so its an easy and effortless bid for a sentimental vote. The Artist and the Model, Fernando Trueba’s 2012 film about l’occupation de la France, appears to consider itself a contender for membership in this venerable genre. But unfortunately, it’s as lifeless and contrived as an amateur model trying to hold a pose. It has all the set pieces it could possibly want: Nazis, elderly French artists, naked and nubile résistantes. And yet it squanders it on a scanty plot that appears to serve only as justification for letting an old man — the...
- 8/2/2013
- by Mark James
- FilmSchoolRejects.com
In the midst of cruel and troubling times, people naturally tend to rely on not only the physical beauty of the world around them to gain a more positive outlook, but also the meaning in life and the internal beauty of those around them. This is the motivating and humanizing theme in the new French-language Spanish drama, ‘The Artist and the Model,’ from award-winning writer-director Fernando Trueba. The two main characters in the film, who come from different backgrounds and have drastically conflicting motivating factors, authentically come to understand each other’s struggles and will to survive after forming an unexpected relationship. ‘The Artist and the Model’ follows an 80-year-old sculptor, [ Read More ]
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- 7/31/2013
- by Karen Benardello
- ShockYa
John Berger quipped, "Men look at women. Women watch themselves being looked at," an observation recalled by this anachronistic picture of Fernando Trueba's, which offers as generic a portrait of its central relationship as its title suggests. In WWII France, elderly artist Marc Cros (Jean Rochefort) has seen his well of inspiration run dry. His fortunes improve when his wife (Claudia Cardinale) takes in Mercè (Aida Folch), a shapely Spanish refugee who becomes Marc's model. Predictably, Marc and Mercè don't initially like each other—though Marc's admiration for Mercè's body is apparent—yet they grow close as Mercè revives his artistic spirit. Hopelessly narcissistic, Marc finds nothing as important as his work: "I have a sculpture to finish, wit...
- 7/31/2013
- Village Voice
Aida Folch and Jean Rochefort in The Artist And The Model In my conversation with Academy Award winning director Fernando Trueba on his latest film The Artist And The Model (El Artista Y La Modelo), we spoke about the influence of a famous father and son, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Jean Renoir. Grace Kelly, Hedy Lamarr, a François Truffaut Wild Child and Robert Bresson's Au Hasard Balthazar led to the nature of women in Michelangelo Antonioni's Identification Of A Woman.
Alongside Trueba was actress Aida Folch whose character Mercè is recruited by Claudia Cardinale's Léa Cros to become a muse for her husband, the artist Marc Cros, played by Jean Rochefort.
The film set in 1943 was co-written by long-time Buñuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, who together with Günter Grass adapted his novel The Tin Drum for Volker Schlöndorff's Academy Award winning film of the same name. He is...
Alongside Trueba was actress Aida Folch whose character Mercè is recruited by Claudia Cardinale's Léa Cros to become a muse for her husband, the artist Marc Cros, played by Jean Rochefort.
The film set in 1943 was co-written by long-time Buñuel collaborator Jean-Claude Carrière, who together with Günter Grass adapted his novel The Tin Drum for Volker Schlöndorff's Academy Award winning film of the same name. He is...
- 7/30/2013
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Mejor película Lo imposible El artista y la modelo Blancanieves Grupo 7 Mejor director Pablo Berger,Blancanieves J.A. Bayona, Lo imposible Fernando Trueba, El artista y la modelo Alberto Rodríguez,...
- 1/8/2013
- by Ryan Adams
- AwardsDaily.com
Madrid – Fernando Trueba, Juan Antonio Bayona and Sergio Castellitto are some of the Spanish directors who will see their latest works screen in the Official Section at the 60th San Sebastian International Film Festival, organizers announced Friday. Oscar-winner Trueba—a favorite of the festival—will see his The Artist and the Model screen in competition. Starring Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch and Claudia Cardinale focuses on the relationship between an old French sculptor and his muse in World War II France. Bayona’s much-anticipated The Impossible—his second feature after the The Orphanage—stars Ewan McGregor and Naomi Watts in a story set
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- 7/27/2012
- by Pamela Rolfe
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- I can't say that I've been following Fernando Trueba's career as a filmmaker, I've only seen his 1992 Oscar winning Belle Epoque (which along with Jamón, jamón launched Penelope Cruz's career) and I missed his much adored jazz documentary Calle 54. Variety's article reveals that the Spanish filmmaker has been extremely busy as of late with The Dancer and the Thief (Fall 2009), the animated Chico y Rita (2010) and is mounting the French-language L'Artiste et son modele which stars Aida Folch and Jean Rochefort (I can't remove the image of him not being able to mount a horse as witnessed in Terry Gilliam's meltdown Lost in La Mancha). The screenplay for The Artist and his Model was written by Trueba and prolific scribe Jean-Claude Carriere (Birth) and is set in occupied France in 1943, it turns on an ageing hedonist painter and his relationship with beauty and with beautiful women.
- 7/2/2009
- IONCINEMA.com
MADRID -- The San Sebastian International Film Festival has revealed a selection of films by promising Spanish directors for its 54th edition, including Koldo Serra's English-language thriller "Backwoods", which will screen out of competition but vie for the $110,000 Altadis-New Directors Award. Set in the mid-'70s in northern Spain, Serra's $5.6 million directorial debut stars Gary Oldman, Virginie Ledoyen, Paddy Considine and Aitana Sanchez-Gijon and follows an English couple as their vacation turns violent during a hot summer. The film will run as part of the Zabaltegi section. Three Spanish films will contend for the festival's Golden Shell, including Antonio Chavarrias' "Las Vidas de Celia". Najwa Nimri, Luis Tosar, Daniel Gimenez Cacho, Alex Casanovas and Aida Folch star in the tale of intrigue that follows a detective as he uncovers the tormented lives of homicide suspects.
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