Exclusive: Streetcar Productions today announced that principal photography on La Cigüeña, the latest film from Dominican filmmaker Alejandro Andújar, has begun principal photography in the Dominican Republic.
The company is producing the film with Lantica Media and Capa Pictures. Funding was provided by Lantica Media, and shooting is underway at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios. The three production companies previously collaborated on the Paul Auster adaptation In The Country of Last Things directed by Alejandro Chomski.
Written by Andújar and James Lawes (Be Good), the film tells the story of Leila, a young Cuban, desperate to pay off her mounting bills, who agrees to become a surrogate for a mysterious couple played by Jorge León and Aníbal. The film stars Cuban actress Andrea Doimeadiós, Hector Aníbal, Sarah Jorge León (Candela), and Any Ferreiras (Andrea).
Alejandro Andújar is best known for his debut feature El hombre que cuida,...
The company is producing the film with Lantica Media and Capa Pictures. Funding was provided by Lantica Media, and shooting is underway at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios. The three production companies previously collaborated on the Paul Auster adaptation In The Country of Last Things directed by Alejandro Chomski.
Written by Andújar and James Lawes (Be Good), the film tells the story of Leila, a young Cuban, desperate to pay off her mounting bills, who agrees to become a surrogate for a mysterious couple played by Jorge León and Aníbal. The film stars Cuban actress Andrea Doimeadiós, Hector Aníbal, Sarah Jorge León (Candela), and Any Ferreiras (Andrea).
Alejandro Andújar is best known for his debut feature El hombre que cuida,...
- 8/31/2022
- by Zac Ntim
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Paul Auster novel In The Country Of Last Things is getting a Spanish-language movie adaptation from Argentine filmmaker Alejandro Chomski (Asleep In The Sun).
Shoot is underway at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios on the feature starring Argentine newcomer Jazmín Diz, Mexican actor-singer Christopher Von Uckermann and Maria De Medeiros (Pulp Fiction). Funding comes from Caribbean outfit Lantica. Above is a first look at Diz in the film.
Set in a devastated city that was once a thriving metropolis, the dystopian story follows Anna (Diz) who is searching for her brother, a journalist who is missing. In her quest to find him, she meets and falls in love with Sam (Von Uckermann), another journalist. Chomski adapted Auster’s novel, which has been translated into more than forty languages.
Producers on the long-gestating project, which was originally developed as an English-language film, are Alexandra Stone of UK-based Streetcar Productions, Capa Pictures...
Shoot is underway at Pinewood Dominican Republic Studios on the feature starring Argentine newcomer Jazmín Diz, Mexican actor-singer Christopher Von Uckermann and Maria De Medeiros (Pulp Fiction). Funding comes from Caribbean outfit Lantica. Above is a first look at Diz in the film.
Set in a devastated city that was once a thriving metropolis, the dystopian story follows Anna (Diz) who is searching for her brother, a journalist who is missing. In her quest to find him, she meets and falls in love with Sam (Von Uckermann), another journalist. Chomski adapted Auster’s novel, which has been translated into more than forty languages.
Producers on the long-gestating project, which was originally developed as an English-language film, are Alexandra Stone of UK-based Streetcar Productions, Capa Pictures...
- 7/15/2019
- by Andreas Wiseman
- Deadline Film + TV
Paul Auster on Alicia Vikander's connection to In the Country of Last Things being filmed by Alejandro Chomski in 2019: "At one point, it was before Alicia became famous, when she was on the brink, and she loved the book and she wanted to do it." Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
When I met Paul Auster to return his DVD copy of The Inner Life Of Martin Frost, starring David Thewlis and Irène Jacob with Michael Imperioli and Sophie Auster, I brought a brochure for him of the Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum and I showed him Ed Bahlman's copy of Attilio Bertolucci's collection of poetry, signed by his son, Bernardo Bertolucci.
We discussed Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates and The Brooklyn Follies, Pedro Almodóvar and The Book Of Illusions, Per Oscarsson in Hening Carlsen's adaptation of Knut Hamsun's Hunger, Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair,...
When I met Paul Auster to return his DVD copy of The Inner Life Of Martin Frost, starring David Thewlis and Irène Jacob with Michael Imperioli and Sophie Auster, I brought a brochure for him of the Hilma af Klint: Paintings for the Future exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum and I showed him Ed Bahlman's copy of Attilio Bertolucci's collection of poetry, signed by his son, Bernardo Bertolucci.
We discussed Felix van Groeningen's The Misfortunates and The Brooklyn Follies, Pedro Almodóvar and The Book Of Illusions, Per Oscarsson in Hening Carlsen's adaptation of Knut Hamsun's Hunger, Nikolaj Arcel's A Royal Affair,...
- 12/20/2018
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Asleep In The Sun Review [Sfiff]
When I told a movie buff friend of mine I would be attending Sfiff, I asked him if there were any movies he thought I should pay attention to. Among the films he listed, he mentioned Alejandro Chomski's Asleep in the Sun saying ,"the Argentines often start with artiness and inexplicably end up with real art." I'm surprised as how well that description fits the film. The setting is the serene and idyllic 1950s, where Lucio (Luis Machín) works as a watchmaker in his childhood home he inherited at his parent's passing. He lives there with his wife Diana (Esther Goris) whom he adores to no end. She's troubled, however with unnamed mental illness. She is overly preoccupied with dogs and overly attached to a professor named Standle (Enrique Piñeyro), whom she visits frequently. Noticing her condition, Standle approached Lucio suggesting that she visits...
When I told a movie buff friend of mine I would be attending Sfiff, I asked him if there were any movies he thought I should pay attention to. Among the films he listed, he mentioned Alejandro Chomski's Asleep in the Sun saying ,"the Argentines often start with artiness and inexplicably end up with real art." I'm surprised as how well that description fits the film. The setting is the serene and idyllic 1950s, where Lucio (Luis Machín) works as a watchmaker in his childhood home he inherited at his parent's passing. He lives there with his wife Diana (Esther Goris) whom he adores to no end. She's troubled, however with unnamed mental illness. She is overly preoccupied with dogs and overly attached to a professor named Standle (Enrique Piñeyro), whom she visits frequently. Noticing her condition, Standle approached Lucio suggesting that she visits...
- 5/8/2011
- by Blake Griffin
- We Got This Covered
A look at what's new on DVD today:
"127 Hours" (2010)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
With a fast-forward button at the ready on home devices, it's high time more people see James Franco's Spirit Award-winning performance as real-life adventurer Aron Ralston, who gets his arm trapped under a boulder in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon and struggles to survive and free himself in Danny Boyle's life-affirming followup to "Slumdog Millionaire." (Matt Singer's interview with James Franco and Danny Boyle is here.)
"420 High Desert Way" (2011)
Directed by Tom Breedlove
Released by Maverick Entertainment Group
Dealing with a different drug than the one suggested by the title, this procedural drama follows a young undercover cop who must refine his extreme sports skills as he infiltrates a drug cartel and must bust them before they learn his true identity.
"Bambi" (1942)
Directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong
Released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment...
"127 Hours" (2010)
Directed by Danny Boyle
Released by Fox Home Entertainment
With a fast-forward button at the ready on home devices, it's high time more people see James Franco's Spirit Award-winning performance as real-life adventurer Aron Ralston, who gets his arm trapped under a boulder in Utah's Bluejohn Canyon and struggles to survive and free himself in Danny Boyle's life-affirming followup to "Slumdog Millionaire." (Matt Singer's interview with James Franco and Danny Boyle is here.)
"420 High Desert Way" (2011)
Directed by Tom Breedlove
Released by Maverick Entertainment Group
Dealing with a different drug than the one suggested by the title, this procedural drama follows a young undercover cop who must refine his extreme sports skills as he infiltrates a drug cartel and must bust them before they learn his true identity.
"Bambi" (1942)
Directed by James Algar and Samuel Armstrong
Released by Walt Disney Home Entertainment...
- 2/27/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
The Goa Film Festival that was from the 22nd of November to the 2nd of December and I managed to attend the first five days. Unfortunately, I got sick just after the festival and couldn’t compile the report in time. Anyway, some of the films screened here will go on to be important during award season and since that’s around the corner, I figured I’d club my impression of the festival with reviews of the films, since I had foreshadowed some of the buzz. Please keep in mind that this is not blow-by-blow and a laundry list of films reviewed but an impression of one of the biggest Asian film celebrations and the many conversations and predictions I managed to collect.
Rewind
So, here I am at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, an anarchic carnival of cinema that is as much an index of...
Rewind
So, here I am at the International Film Festival of India in Goa, an anarchic carnival of cinema that is as much an index of...
- 1/12/2011
- by Kamayani Sharma
- The Moving Arts Journal
Quickcard Review – 46th Chicago International Film Festival
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Asleep in the Sun
Directed by: Alejandro Chomski
Cast: Luis Machin, Esther Goris, Carlos Belloco
Running Time: 1 hr 20 mins
Rating: Nr
Release Date: Tbd
Plot: Lucio is forced to commit his depressed wife when she becomes too much. Much to his surprise, she returns soon after, seemingly completely healed. But something seems different to Lucio and he’ll go to any lengths to find out what happened to his wife.
Who’S It For? Fans of surrealist stuff may get a kick out of Asleep in the Sun. Otherwise, I’d say it’s probably just for hardcore fans of director Chomski’s other work.
Overall
At its heart, Asleep in the Sun tries too hard to be a surrealist’s nightmare. It’s a noble premise which has been done before and,...
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Asleep in the Sun
Directed by: Alejandro Chomski
Cast: Luis Machin, Esther Goris, Carlos Belloco
Running Time: 1 hr 20 mins
Rating: Nr
Release Date: Tbd
Plot: Lucio is forced to commit his depressed wife when she becomes too much. Much to his surprise, she returns soon after, seemingly completely healed. But something seems different to Lucio and he’ll go to any lengths to find out what happened to his wife.
Who’S It For? Fans of surrealist stuff may get a kick out of Asleep in the Sun. Otherwise, I’d say it’s probably just for hardcore fans of director Chomski’s other work.
Overall
At its heart, Asleep in the Sun tries too hard to be a surrealist’s nightmare. It’s a noble premise which has been done before and,...
- 10/7/2010
- by Calhoun Kersten
- The Scorecard Review
This week's offerings give us the choice of walking with death or battling the undead. For those taking it easy this week, there's also roller skating with Ellen Page and having fun playing God (or inventing him, at any rate) with Ricky Gervais.
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"Afterschool"
After making a name for himself at Cannes with his award-winning shorts, Nyu film grad Antonio Campos took his feature debut there last year. "Afterschool" earned its share of controversy during its festival run, along with as a Spirit Award nomination for best first feature. Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant and Michael Haneke, this hazy story of digital detachment blends viral video and prep school tragedy in its story of a paranoid internet junkie (Ezra Miller) who witnesses the death of a pair of classmates who overdose on drugs, and...
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"Afterschool"
After making a name for himself at Cannes with his award-winning shorts, Nyu film grad Antonio Campos took his feature debut there last year. "Afterschool" earned its share of controversy during its festival run, along with as a Spirit Award nomination for best first feature. Reminiscent of Gus Van Sant and Michael Haneke, this hazy story of digital detachment blends viral video and prep school tragedy in its story of a paranoid internet junkie (Ezra Miller) who witnesses the death of a pair of classmates who overdose on drugs, and...
- 9/29/2009
- by Neil Pedley
- ifc.com
The meanest streets of L.A. are rendered at their grimiest in this ironically titled market movie. Set smack dab in the dark shadows of Wilshire's skyscrapers, this smartly-scoped film focuses on the underbelly of the city. Stylistically, it's a mixed bag: It's both a stark look at survival in the inner city, and a titillation ditty backdropped by the steamy gyrations of a strip club. As such, this New Films International production will be a tough sell, likely relegated to DVD and the outer edges of the indie-fest world.
Centered on a Valley runaway, who has escaped the grasp of an abusive father, the narrative follows the teenaged girl's struggle for survival. She's stepped off the bus into a world of pimps, thugs, illegals, winos and predators. Fortunately, through the good graces of a stripper with a heart-of-gold, she finds shelter with the strip club's illegal kitchen worker.
Although director Alejandro Chomski has crafted a hard-edged social statement, that vision is muddled by the story's generic histrionics and pat predictability.
Centered on a Valley runaway, who has escaped the grasp of an abusive father, the narrative follows the teenaged girl's struggle for survival. She's stepped off the bus into a world of pimps, thugs, illegals, winos and predators. Fortunately, through the good graces of a stripper with a heart-of-gold, she finds shelter with the strip club's illegal kitchen worker.
Although director Alejandro Chomski has crafted a hard-edged social statement, that vision is muddled by the story's generic histrionics and pat predictability.
- 5/18/2008
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
- Quick Links > In the Country of Last Things > Eva Green > The Nazi Officer's Wife > The Golden Compass > Casino Royale > The Dreamers She made a splash back with her debut The Dreamers and will make even bigger waves with the to be released this coming Friday Casino Royale, now Production Weekly reports that Eva Green will skip down to Argentina this winter for In the Country of Last Things. Based on the Paul Auster’s novel, this is about a postapocalyptic quest set against a backdrop of urban deprivation. The masses are homeless, theft is so rampant it is no longer a crime, and death — by arranging either suicide or assassination — is the only way out. Buildings collapse daily, driving huge numbers of citizens into the streets, where they starve or die of exposure — if they aren’t murdered by other vagrants first. Government forces haul away the bodies,
- 11/13/2006
- IONCINEMA.com
Opening Film (Out of Competition) "Fanfan la Tulipe" -- Gerard Krawczyk Closing Film (Out of Competition) "Modern Times" -- Charlie Chaplin In Competition "Dogville" -- Lars Von Trier "Les Invasions Barbares" -- Denys Arcand "Il Cuore Altrove" -- Pupi Avati "Carandiru" -- Hector Babenco "Uzak" -- Nuri Bilge Ceylan "Mystic River" -- Clint Eastwood "The Brown Bunny" -- Vincent Gallo "The Moab Story -- The Tulse Luper Suitcases Pt 1" -- Peter Greenaway "Tiresia" -- Bertrand Bonello "Shara" -- Naomi Kawase "Bright Future (Akarui Mirai)" -- Kiyoshi Kurosawa "A Cinq Heures De L'Apres Midi" -- Samira Makhmalbaf "Ce Jour La" -- Raoul Ruiz "Father and Son" -- Alexander Sokurov "Elephant" -- Gus Van Sant "Swimming Pool" -- Francois Ozon "Les Cotelettes" -- Bertrand Blier "La Petite Lili" -- Claude Miller "Strayed (Les Egares)" -- Andre Techine "Purple Butterfly" -- Liu Ye Out of Competition "Mansion by the Lake" -- Lester James Peries "Les Triplettes de Belleville" -- Sylvain Chomet "Qui a Tue Bambi" -- Gilles Marchand "Le Temps du Loup" -- Michael Haneke "Va et Vient" -- Joao Monteiro "The Matrix Reloaded" -- Wachowski Brothers Special Screenings "Charlie: The Life and Art of Charles Chaplin -- Richard Schickel "Il Grido D'Angoscia Dell' Uccello Predatore 20 Tagli D'Aprile" -- Nanni Moretti "S-21, La Machine de Mort Khmer Rouge" -- Rithy Panh "The Fog of War" -- Errol Morris "The Last Customer" -- Nanni Moretti "The Soul of a Man" -- Wim Wenders Short Films in Competition "A Janela Aberta" -- Philippe Barcinski "Cracker Bag" -- Glendyn Ivin "Fast Film" -- Virgil Widrich "Ik Ontspruit" -- Esther Rots "L'homme Sans Tete" -- Juan Solanas "My Blind Brother" -- Sophie Goodhart "Novembersno" -- Karolina Jonsson "The Most Beautiful Man in the World" -- Alicia Duffy "To Tameno" -- Marsa Makris Un Certain Regard "En Jouant 'Dans La Compagnie Des Hommes' " -- Arnaud Desplechin (opening) "A Story That Begins at the End" -- Murali Nair "A Thousand Months" -- Faouzi Bensaidi "All Tomorrow's Parties" -- Yu Lik Wai "American Splendor" -- Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini "Crimson Gold" -- Jaffar Panahi "Drifters" -- Wang Xiaoshuai "Hoy y Manana" -- Alejandro Chomski "Japanese Story" -- Sue Brooks "Kiss of Life" -- Emily Young "La Meglio Gioventu" -- Marco Tullio "Les Mains Vides" -- Marc Recha "Robinson's Crusoe" -- Lin Cheng-Sheng "September" -- Max Faerberbock "Stormy Weather" -- Solveig Anspach "Struggle" -- Ruth Mader "Young Adam" -- David Mackenzie...
- 4/23/2003
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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