Ana Katz’s Argentinian drama set for May release.
Curzon has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Ana Katz’s midlife drama The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet from Paris-based Luxbox.
The Argentinian feature, which played in competition at Sundance and won the Vpro Big Screen Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), will receive an exclusive release on streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema on May 21.
Shot in black and white, the drama follows a man in his thirties who is devoted to his loyal dog and works in a slew of temporary jobs. As he moves restlessly through adulthood,...
Curzon has acquired UK and Ireland rights to Ana Katz’s midlife drama The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet from Paris-based Luxbox.
The Argentinian feature, which played in competition at Sundance and won the Vpro Big Screen Award at this year’s International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), will receive an exclusive release on streaming platform Curzon Home Cinema on May 21.
Shot in black and white, the drama follows a man in his thirties who is devoted to his loyal dog and works in a slew of temporary jobs. As he moves restlessly through adulthood,...
- 5/10/2021
- by Michael Rosser
- ScreenDaily
This year, because Sundance is a virtual festival operating in the midst of the coronavirus, there’s a tendency to label any depiction of isolation and mass hysteria as a “pandemic movie.” It’s not exactly a spoiler to say The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet matches that criteria. During one stretch of director Ana Katz’s impressionistic slice of Argentinian life, an ambiguous airborne disease forces the population to wear oxygen helmets. Anyone that doesn’t have access to one of these astronaut devices must keep their head no higher than four feet from the ground. Many crawl, squat and duck their way through offices and city streets. It’s a masked, paranoid existence that appears both familiar and otherworldly.
And yet, unlike some recent entries in this quickly re-emerging genre, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet seems more acutely aware of how living through a pandemic feels than how it looks.
And yet, unlike some recent entries in this quickly re-emerging genre, The Dog Who Wouldn’t Be Quiet seems more acutely aware of how living through a pandemic feels than how it looks.
- 1/31/2021
- by Jake Kring-Schreifels
- The Film Stage
While this year's Sundance Film Festival will be experienced differently in the era of Covid-19 (with virtual screenings taking place online and in-person screenings taking place with safety precautions in select theaters across the country), the cinema celebration will continue to highlight vital, impactful, and innovative creators behind and in front of the camera, with more than 70 feature films included in the festival's full lineup.
We've highlighted some of the genre films horror fans can look forward to from the official press release below. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for our upcoming coverage of the festival (taking place January 28th–February 3rd), and visit Sundance's website for more details.
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet / Argentina — Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
We've highlighted some of the genre films horror fans can look forward to from the official press release below. Stay tuned to Daily Dead for our upcoming coverage of the festival (taking place January 28th–February 3rd), and visit Sundance's website for more details.
World Cinema Dramatic Competition
The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet / Argentina — Sebastian, a man in his thirties, works a series of temporary jobs and he embraces love at every opportunity. He transforms, through a series of short encounters, as the world flirts with possible apocalypse.
- 12/16/2020
- by Derek Anderson
- DailyDead
Last year, Argentina’s Ventana Sur film and TV market and co-production forum launched its inaugural Proyecta feature project showcase.
Co-organized by Ventana Sur and the San Sebastian Film Festival, Proyecta was established to aid in facilitation of international co-productions between Europe and Latin America.
16 feature film projects will participate this year, four of which come from the Basque co-founder, one from Taller Eave Puentes-Europe Latin America Co-Production Workshop and the final title from Brasil CineMundi. The others were selected by Paulo Roberto de Carvalho, Esperanza Luffiego and Clara Massot for Ventana Sur.
From the 16 projects, nine are first or second features interspersed with established, multi-award-winning filmmakers such as Lucía Puenzo, director of 2007’s Cannes Critics’ Week, Golden Rail, Acid and Regards Jeunes Prize-winner “Xxy,” and who is fresh off Fabula’s Daniela Vega-starred series “The Pack.” Puenzo will be pitching “Los Impactados,” written by her friend Lorena Ventimiglia,...
Co-organized by Ventana Sur and the San Sebastian Film Festival, Proyecta was established to aid in facilitation of international co-productions between Europe and Latin America.
16 feature film projects will participate this year, four of which come from the Basque co-founder, one from Taller Eave Puentes-Europe Latin America Co-Production Workshop and the final title from Brasil CineMundi. The others were selected by Paulo Roberto de Carvalho, Esperanza Luffiego and Clara Massot for Ventana Sur.
From the 16 projects, nine are first or second features interspersed with established, multi-award-winning filmmakers such as Lucía Puenzo, director of 2007’s Cannes Critics’ Week, Golden Rail, Acid and Regards Jeunes Prize-winner “Xxy,” and who is fresh off Fabula’s Daniela Vega-starred series “The Pack.” Puenzo will be pitching “Los Impactados,” written by her friend Lorena Ventimiglia,...
- 11/14/2019
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Madrid — At the start of the first shot of “Belmonte,” the camera pans slowly across dirt-filled cracks between stone blocks in a concrete wall to an extraordinary bronze statue of a family – father, mother, cherubic child – perched on a bull straining head down to pull them along to Javier Belmonte himself, surveying the art work pensively. The shot encapsulates the whole film: the constant contrast and interaction between art and a messier reality, in this case, Belmonte’s personal life, his yearnings for a family. 43, still with a dash of bohemia in his leather bomber jacket, Belmonte, a Montevideo has hit mid-life crisis. He still paints – bouffant, fleshy Botticelli-looking male nudes, awash in bright colors, but bestruck by angst.
As is Belmonte. He yearns for family, fears that his divorced wife’s pregnancy by her second husband will mean he gets to see less of his daughter, the light of his life,...
As is Belmonte. He yearns for family, fears that his divorced wife’s pregnancy by her second husband will mean he gets to see less of his daughter, the light of his life,...
- 10/25/2018
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Other winners include Guillaume Senez and Jafar Panahi.
Belgium’s Guillaume Senez, Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson and Iran’s Jafar Panahi were among the award-winners at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg, which ended yesterday (6 October).
The Art Cinema Award went to Benedikt Erlingsson’s political comedy Woman At War which opened the Filmfest on 26 September and will be released in German cinemas by Pandora Filmverleih.
Senez’s second feature Our Battles (his debut was Keeper) won the Critics’ Choice Award which was presented for the first time in collaboration with the Association of German Film Critics (Vdfk).
The family drama...
Belgium’s Guillaume Senez, Iceland’s Benedikt Erlingsson and Iran’s Jafar Panahi were among the award-winners at this year’s Filmfest Hamburg, which ended yesterday (6 October).
The Art Cinema Award went to Benedikt Erlingsson’s political comedy Woman At War which opened the Filmfest on 26 September and will be released in German cinemas by Pandora Filmverleih.
Senez’s second feature Our Battles (his debut was Keeper) won the Critics’ Choice Award which was presented for the first time in collaboration with the Association of German Film Critics (Vdfk).
The family drama...
- 10/8/2018
- by Martin Blaney
- ScreenDaily
A lot of filmgoers seem perplexed by or vaguely hostile to the the work of Uruguayan director Federico Veiroj, and to his new film Belmonte (2018) in particular. I love and admire all Veiroj’s films on contact, but I understand how he might perturb others. For a filmmaker who seems to work comfortably within the bounds of story-based naturalism, he throws so many wrenches into the works that one needs an experimentalist temperament to stay with him. And yet there’s nothing violent about his subversion: he is always gentle and tender as he destroys our narrative expectations.Belmonte’s story is so simple that there barely seems to be a movie there. The title character (Gonzalo Delgado), a forceful, driven, somewhat successful artist, seems not to have reassembled his life after his divorce from Jeanne (Jeannette Sauksteliskis), who is pregnant by her new partner. His warm relationship with his...
- 9/10/2018
- MUBI
Argentine film agency Meikincine Entertainment has picked up worldwide sales rights to family drama “Belmonte,” the fourth feature by noted Uruguayan-Spanish filmmaker Federico Veiroj. Variety has had exclusive access to the film’s brand new trailer.
“Belmonte” receives this September its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and days after will have its European premiere in San Sebastian.
The film portrays Belmonte, a 43-year-old divorced man, with a successful career as a painter but jealous of his ten-year-old daughter Celeste’s new family life. Following the painter’s point of view, the film focuses on the things he is attracted to, and how his sensitivity informs his art.
“In a way, I would like to think the film shows how creativity mixes with domestic life, and how both things couldn’t be separated because neither would make sense without the other,” Veiroj commented.
“Belmonte” marks the first Federico Veiroj...
“Belmonte” receives this September its world premiere at the Toronto Film Festival and days after will have its European premiere in San Sebastian.
The film portrays Belmonte, a 43-year-old divorced man, with a successful career as a painter but jealous of his ten-year-old daughter Celeste’s new family life. Following the painter’s point of view, the film focuses on the things he is attracted to, and how his sensitivity informs his art.
“In a way, I would like to think the film shows how creativity mixes with domestic life, and how both things couldn’t be separated because neither would make sense without the other,” Veiroj commented.
“Belmonte” marks the first Federico Veiroj...
- 8/14/2018
- by Emiliano De Pablos
- Variety Film + TV
Everyone all over the world have had their problems with the pesky undead, and now there's news of even more flesh eaters shambling their way all the way from Buenos Ares. Break out the skinchips and salsa! It's time for The Summer Hit!
Uruguay’s Pablo Stoll, a darling of the art-pic crowd since 2001′s Rotterdam Tiger-winning 25 Watts, is prepping a zombie movie, The Summer Hit, Variety reports. The move will shock some Stoll loyalists, which is exactly what he wants.
“Set at a Uruguay beach resort, the film turns on Santi, who meets the girl of his dreams. But a teen romantic comedy morphs into a thriller, then zombie pic,” Stoll said at Ventana Sur.
For decades, beyond local comedies, Latin America has largely turned out small social-issue art-house pics, lamenting its suffering. It’s what the world’s come to expect, says the site. But a new generation...
Uruguay’s Pablo Stoll, a darling of the art-pic crowd since 2001′s Rotterdam Tiger-winning 25 Watts, is prepping a zombie movie, The Summer Hit, Variety reports. The move will shock some Stoll loyalists, which is exactly what he wants.
“Set at a Uruguay beach resort, the film turns on Santi, who meets the girl of his dreams. But a teen romantic comedy morphs into a thriller, then zombie pic,” Stoll said at Ventana Sur.
For decades, beyond local comedies, Latin America has largely turned out small social-issue art-house pics, lamenting its suffering. It’s what the world’s come to expect, says the site. But a new generation...
- 12/3/2012
- by Uncle Creepy
- DreadCentral.com
Uruguayan director Pablo Stoll is probably best known as a director of Whisky, quite successful movie that even managed to win the Regard Original Award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival. In case this still means nothing to you, relax, we’re just here to report that Stoll has a serious plan to helm a zombie movie! In other words, if everything goes well – we’ll be hearing a lot about Stoll and his next movie titled The Summer Hit!
So, at this moment we know that The Summer Hit is set up at Temperamento Films, Stoll’s new production company, and that he’s completing a first draft of a script. Then, he will continue the whole thing together with his Whisky co-scribe Gonzalo Delgado.
According to Variety, this zombie-story will be set at a Uruguay beach resort, and will center on a character named Santi, who meets the girl of his dreams.
So, at this moment we know that The Summer Hit is set up at Temperamento Films, Stoll’s new production company, and that he’s completing a first draft of a script. Then, he will continue the whole thing together with his Whisky co-scribe Gonzalo Delgado.
According to Variety, this zombie-story will be set at a Uruguay beach resort, and will center on a character named Santi, who meets the girl of his dreams.
- 12/3/2012
- by Jeanne Standal
- Filmofilia
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