Veteran Spanish director Víctor Erice, finest identified for 1973 traditional The Spirit of the Beehive, is making his first characteristic movie in 30 years, it has been revealed.
El Diario reviews that the brand new undertaking, titled Cerrar los Ojos (Shut Your Eyes), is being funded by Canal Sur, the general public broadcaster for the Andalusia area of Spain. No data has been divulged as to its content material, aside from that José Coronado and María León have been forged within the lead roles, and that it's due for launch in 2023.
Erice has accomplished solely three characteristic movies in his 50-year directing profession. The Spirit of the Beehive, described by the Guardian’s Derek Malcolm as “some of the lovely and arresting movies ever made”, is about an eight-year-old woman who finds a wounded Republican fighter hiding in a shed, and was made whereas the Franco regime was nonetheless in command of the nation. El Sur (The South) adopted in 1983, and starred Icíar Bollaín (now an award-winning director herself) as a woman whose household resides in exile within the north of Spain after the civil conflict. The Quince Tree Solar, launched in 1992, follows the painstaking efforts of artist Antonio López García to color a quince tree, and received the jury prize on the Cannes movie pageant.
Erice, now 82, has not been inactive since then, nevertheless. He contributed a section to the 2002 brief movie assortment Ten Minutes Older: The Trumpet (alongside administrators together with Chen Kaige, Werner Herzog and Jim Jarmusch), filmed his “letters” to Iranian film-maker Abbas Kiarostami within the 2007 set up piece Víctor Erice–Abbas Kiarostami: Correspondences, and contributed to the 2012 omnibus movie Centro Historico. El Diario reviews Erice additionally spent years engaged on an adaptation of Juan Marsé’s 1993 novel The Shanghai Spell that foundered. The novel was filmed by Fernando Trueba and launched in 2002.
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