Chilean filmmaker Matías Bize’s pandemic-prompted film “Private Messages” will be part of the Official Selection at the 2022 Malaga Film Festival, and the feature dives face-first into the stories which make us human, vulnerable and strong.
Bize, who won a Spanish Academy Goya for his Variety-championed film “The Life of the Fish” in 2011, uses self-filmed footage of the film’s international cast confessing their most intimate stories during 2020’s global lockdowns, which coincided with filming.
“Private Messages” pieces its narrative together carefully, the truth of its storytellers overlaid with original music, and culminating in a powerful ending which memorializes the power of rebirth.
Variety spoke to Bize ahead of his film’s premiere at Malaga.
Covid was the impetus for “Private Messages,” but what else inspired the film?
This film was born on the first day of the pandemic’s confinement. I was in Mexico City, and I thought: I...
Bize, who won a Spanish Academy Goya for his Variety-championed film “The Life of the Fish” in 2011, uses self-filmed footage of the film’s international cast confessing their most intimate stories during 2020’s global lockdowns, which coincided with filming.
“Private Messages” pieces its narrative together carefully, the truth of its storytellers overlaid with original music, and culminating in a powerful ending which memorializes the power of rebirth.
Variety spoke to Bize ahead of his film’s premiere at Malaga.
Covid was the impetus for “Private Messages,” but what else inspired the film?
This film was born on the first day of the pandemic’s confinement. I was in Mexico City, and I thought: I...
- 3/21/2022
- by JD Linville
- Variety Film + TV
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