After 25 years, Susana Gimenez, Argentina’s celebrated TV host, actress, model and entrepreneur, is set to make her hotly anticipated return to the big screen in a new Diego Kaplan comedy.
The still untitled film, penned by Kaplan and Pablo Minces, centers on a preeminent child psychologist who has her own struggles with her 43-year-old son who is reluctant to leave home. Principal photography is slated for October in Buenos Aires.
“I can’t believe I’m making a movie after all these years; I certainly wasn’t planning for it,” said Gimenez. “But Diego is a force of nature and a visionary. When he pitched the project to me, I just couldn’t resist it and jumped right in,” she added. Aside from starring in a host of film and TV series, Gimenez hosted a top-rated talk show likened to that of Oprah Winfrey or Italy’s Raffaella Carrà.
The still untitled film, penned by Kaplan and Pablo Minces, centers on a preeminent child psychologist who has her own struggles with her 43-year-old son who is reluctant to leave home. Principal photography is slated for October in Buenos Aires.
“I can’t believe I’m making a movie after all these years; I certainly wasn’t planning for it,” said Gimenez. “But Diego is a force of nature and a visionary. When he pitched the project to me, I just couldn’t resist it and jumped right in,” she added. Aside from starring in a host of film and TV series, Gimenez hosted a top-rated talk show likened to that of Oprah Winfrey or Italy’s Raffaella Carrà.
- 4/25/2023
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
Buenos Aires — Ever incorporating ever bigger titles to its slate, Latido Films has boarded the Viacom-backed, Telefe co-produced “El Robo del Siglo” (“The Theft of the Century”), acquiring international rights outside the U.S. to a title which is shaping up as one of Argentina’s biggest bows of early 2020.
Multiple factors elevate it to that category.
“El Robo” is based on Argentina’s most celebrated heist ever, as true crime booms in Argentina. It stars a powerful cast, led by Guillermo Francella (“The Secret in Their Eyes” and “The Clan”) and Diego Peretti (“En terapia”).
“The Theft of the Century” is also produced by Az Films, MarVista Ent., Viacom International Studios (Vis) and Telefe, with DirectTV in associate production.
Viacom-owned Telefe has backed and promoted most of Argentina’s big hits this last decade, including “The Secret in Their Eyes” and “Wild Tales.”
Headed by Alex Zito, and...
Multiple factors elevate it to that category.
“El Robo” is based on Argentina’s most celebrated heist ever, as true crime booms in Argentina. It stars a powerful cast, led by Guillermo Francella (“The Secret in Their Eyes” and “The Clan”) and Diego Peretti (“En terapia”).
“The Theft of the Century” is also produced by Az Films, MarVista Ent., Viacom International Studios (Vis) and Telefe, with DirectTV in associate production.
Viacom-owned Telefe has backed and promoted most of Argentina’s big hits this last decade, including “The Secret in Their Eyes” and “Wild Tales.”
Headed by Alex Zito, and...
- 12/3/2019
- by John Hopewell and Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
The North American deal on the true-life drama follows the world premiere of Pablo Larraín’s film in Directors’ Fortnight on Friday.
The Orchard plans an autumn release and will mount an awards campaign on the film starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Gnecco and Mercedes Moran.
Larraín’s return to the Croisette after 2012 Competition selection No (Tony Manero premiered in Director’s Fortnight in 2007) tells of how the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize-winner Pablo Neruda took on the Chilean government in Cold War 1948 and engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with a police inspector.
Participant Media co-financed Neruda in association with Chile’s Fabula, France’s Funny Balloons, which also represents international sales, as well as Argentina’s Az Films, and Spain’s Setembro Cine.
Juan de Dios Larraín produced with Peter Danner, Renan Artukmaç, Alex Zito, Juan Pablo García, Ignacio Rey, Gastón Rothschild, and Fernanda del Nido.
Executive producers are Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King of [link...
The Orchard plans an autumn release and will mount an awards campaign on the film starring Gael Garcia Bernal, Luis Gnecco and Mercedes Moran.
Larraín’s return to the Croisette after 2012 Competition selection No (Tony Manero premiered in Director’s Fortnight in 2007) tells of how the Chilean poet and Nobel Prize-winner Pablo Neruda took on the Chilean government in Cold War 1948 and engaged in a game of cat-and-mouse with a police inspector.
Participant Media co-financed Neruda in association with Chile’s Fabula, France’s Funny Balloons, which also represents international sales, as well as Argentina’s Az Films, and Spain’s Setembro Cine.
Juan de Dios Larraín produced with Peter Danner, Renan Artukmaç, Alex Zito, Juan Pablo García, Ignacio Rey, Gastón Rothschild, and Fernanda del Nido.
Executive producers are Jeff Skoll and Jonathan King of [link...
- 5/14/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
Pablo Larraín’s latest film starring Luis Gnecco and Gael García Bernal has completed principal photography in Chile, Argentina and France.
Neruda centres on the cat-and-mouse game between a police inspector and the dissident Chilean poet Pablo Neruda during the late 1940s. Guillermo Calderon wrote the screenplay.
Bernal and his No director reunite with cast members Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic, Jaime Vadell and Marcelo Alonso as well as Roberto Farías. Mercedes Morán and Pablo Derquí round out the cast.
Neruda is an international co-production between Chile’s Fabula, France’s Funny Balloons and Reborn Production, Spain’s Setembro Cine, Argentina’s Az Films and Us-based Participant Media.
Juan de Dios Larraín produce with Peter Danner, Alejandro Zito and Fernanda Del Nido.
Fox will distribute Neruda in Chile and Funny Balloons handles international sales. Wild Bunch distributes in France.
Neruda centres on the cat-and-mouse game between a police inspector and the dissident Chilean poet Pablo Neruda during the late 1940s. Guillermo Calderon wrote the screenplay.
Bernal and his No director reunite with cast members Alfredo Castro, Alejandro Goic, Jaime Vadell and Marcelo Alonso as well as Roberto Farías. Mercedes Morán and Pablo Derquí round out the cast.
Neruda is an international co-production between Chile’s Fabula, France’s Funny Balloons and Reborn Production, Spain’s Setembro Cine, Argentina’s Az Films and Us-based Participant Media.
Juan de Dios Larraín produce with Peter Danner, Alejandro Zito and Fernanda Del Nido.
Fox will distribute Neruda in Chile and Funny Balloons handles international sales. Wild Bunch distributes in France.
- 8/19/2015
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
New Directors, New Films Festival
NEW YORK -- XXY, an Argentinean film by debuting director Lucia Puenzo, rises to the challenge of its difficult sexual subject matter. The story of a young hermaphrodite who's not sure if she's emotionally a boy or a girl manages to be both raw-edged and moving. The centerpiece of "XXY" is a feral performance by Ines Efron as the confused youth. But supporting characters are all thoroughly nuanced, and this injects a powerful humanism. The result is a tough, engaging, extremely touching work of cinema.
"XXY" has already performed well at festivals, picking up the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes and a well-deserved New Directors Award at Edinburgh. Critical praise should boost chances in upscale art-house cinemas. Film Movement is handling the stateside release May 2.
Alex (Efron), 15, looks like a girl, but was born with both male and female genitalia. Her parents have brought her up as a girl, and her mother has mooted an operation to remove the offending muscle. Alex is starting to believe that she's actually a boy, and her father (Ricardo Darin) is coming around to that conclusion, too. When some family friends arrive at the house, 16-year-old Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski), a teenager with sexual anxieties of his own, forces the issue of Alex's sexual identity.
The creative decision to have Efron play Alex as wild and angry rather than anxious and introspective gives the film dynamism. Alex confronts her problems with her fists, and isn't afraid to externalize her emotions. She doesn't say very much, so her problems and internal conflicts are demonstrated in a very cinematic manner. Rarely has a teenager played a challenging role with such panache and credibility. Piroyanski also performs well as the nerdy, nervous, but emotionally honest foil to Alex's emotions.
Director Puenzo visualizes the fact that Alex is leaning towards male rather than female by showing her taking the masculine role in a sex scene with Alvaro. A nasty attempted rape scene illustrates Alex's vulnerability underneath her tough exterior. But the quiet compassion of friends and family ensures that the film is uplifting rather than depressing.
XXY
Film Movement
A Wanda Vision, Pyramide Prods., and Historias Cinematogrficas production
Sales: Pyramide International
Credits:
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Writer: Lucia Puenzo
Based on a story by: Sergio Bizzo
Producers: Luis Puenzo, Jose Maria Morales
Executive producers: Fernando Sirianni and Miguel Morales
Director of photography: Natashah Braier
Production designer: Roberto Samuelle
Music: Daniel Tarrab
Editors: Alex Zito, Hugo Primero
Cast:
Kraken: Ricardo Darin
Suli: Valeria Bertuccelli
Ramiro: German Palacios
Erika: Carolina Peleritti
Alvaro: Martin Piroyansky
Alex: Ines Efron
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
NEW YORK -- XXY, an Argentinean film by debuting director Lucia Puenzo, rises to the challenge of its difficult sexual subject matter. The story of a young hermaphrodite who's not sure if she's emotionally a boy or a girl manages to be both raw-edged and moving. The centerpiece of "XXY" is a feral performance by Ines Efron as the confused youth. But supporting characters are all thoroughly nuanced, and this injects a powerful humanism. The result is a tough, engaging, extremely touching work of cinema.
"XXY" has already performed well at festivals, picking up the Critics' Week Grand Prize at Cannes and a well-deserved New Directors Award at Edinburgh. Critical praise should boost chances in upscale art-house cinemas. Film Movement is handling the stateside release May 2.
Alex (Efron), 15, looks like a girl, but was born with both male and female genitalia. Her parents have brought her up as a girl, and her mother has mooted an operation to remove the offending muscle. Alex is starting to believe that she's actually a boy, and her father (Ricardo Darin) is coming around to that conclusion, too. When some family friends arrive at the house, 16-year-old Alvaro (Martin Piroyanski), a teenager with sexual anxieties of his own, forces the issue of Alex's sexual identity.
The creative decision to have Efron play Alex as wild and angry rather than anxious and introspective gives the film dynamism. Alex confronts her problems with her fists, and isn't afraid to externalize her emotions. She doesn't say very much, so her problems and internal conflicts are demonstrated in a very cinematic manner. Rarely has a teenager played a challenging role with such panache and credibility. Piroyanski also performs well as the nerdy, nervous, but emotionally honest foil to Alex's emotions.
Director Puenzo visualizes the fact that Alex is leaning towards male rather than female by showing her taking the masculine role in a sex scene with Alvaro. A nasty attempted rape scene illustrates Alex's vulnerability underneath her tough exterior. But the quiet compassion of friends and family ensures that the film is uplifting rather than depressing.
XXY
Film Movement
A Wanda Vision, Pyramide Prods., and Historias Cinematogrficas production
Sales: Pyramide International
Credits:
Director: Lucia Puenzo
Writer: Lucia Puenzo
Based on a story by: Sergio Bizzo
Producers: Luis Puenzo, Jose Maria Morales
Executive producers: Fernando Sirianni and Miguel Morales
Director of photography: Natashah Braier
Production designer: Roberto Samuelle
Music: Daniel Tarrab
Editors: Alex Zito, Hugo Primero
Cast:
Kraken: Ricardo Darin
Suli: Valeria Bertuccelli
Ramiro: German Palacios
Erika: Carolina Peleritti
Alvaro: Martin Piroyansky
Alex: Ines Efron
Running time -- 91 minutes
No MPAA rating...
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