Cecila Roth left a play in Buenos Aires to join the cast of the movie.
Cecila Roth left a play in Buenos Aires to join the cast of the movie.
Originally Posted by Damián
YAY!
After watching The Skin I Live In and Talk To Her, i'll see whatever Almodovar makes. The man knows how to make a movie, and make it damn well.
Please proceed with Volver
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I'm excited that Almodovar is returning to saucy, transgressive comedy! Though, in Screendaily, it mentions two other projects he's been working on:
http://www.screendaily.com/news/prod...038013.articleThis news follows recent speculation that Almodovar might next shoot a movie in the US based on an Alice Munro novel or a movie in Barcelona about the romance of two Pakistani gays in the charismatic neighborhood of El Raval.
It's nice to have confirmation on the Munro adaptation, which thankfully jeanne_dielman and I haven't just been imagining. (Jeanne!)
And, it doesn't say in the article, but that second project is almost certainly an adaptation of a brilliant short story by Colm Toibin, called "The Street", from his most recent collection, The Empty Family (which I coincidentally read not too long ago). Toibin is a great Irish writer who has spent a lot of time in Spain, and is friends with Almodovar. I think Pedro said somewhere that the one American film he most regretted turning down was Brokeback Mountain. This is a somewhat similar story of a repressed gay romance, and within a milieu he's presumably more comfortable with.
I hope both those projects eventually get made as well. Both would be a big departure for him.
It's official. Cecilia Roth (All about my mother) joins the cast with Javier Camara, Lola Dueñas, Raul Arevalo, Jose Maria Yazpik and Carlos Areces.
The film will shoot this summer in Madrid.
Yeah! I'm so happy Javier Cámara and Lola Dueñas are going to work with Almodóvar again. I didn't like Cecilia Roth's acting at all in All about my mother buy I'm very curious to see what Pedro does with her and Arévalo.
Last edited by J2DR; 04-16-2012 at 06:21 PM.
Lola Dueñas has been wonderful every time she's worked with Almodovar (Volver and Broken Embraces) so we can only expect great things from her.
Lola!
"It's better to over analyse than not analyse at all." NM. 2000.
Cecilia!!!
Maybe Penelope can make a cameo?
Does. Not. Compute.
In the string of incredible female performances Almodovar has directed, Roth's is the best or in the Top 3.
Very excited to see Raúl Arévalo entering Almodóvar's universe. If there's a Spanish actor that broke through after bardem and Cruz that deserves to be seen by international audiences, that's Arévalo. Hope his role is juicy.
meanwhile, I'm not sure about Cámara. I loved him in Bad Education, I think he can be a great actor, but for instance I didn't like him much in Talk to her, where I think grandinetti acted circles around him. I think Camara may not be able to carry a movie on his shoulders.
Camara was great in Talk to her and completely underrated in Bad Education!!!
Yeah, Arévalo is one of Spain's more promising younger actors. And hopefully this means people will watch Dark Blue Almost Black!
Raul Arevalo is a great comedian! He´s perfect for the Almodovar Universe. Too bad he was awful in his dramatic breakthrough role in Los Girasoles Ciegos.
Hugo Silva and Miguel Angel Silvestre, also added to the cast.
Almodovar's good taste on boys.
Screen Daily had an article about this the other day, and it sounds it will be a lot of fun:
http://www.screendaily.com/news/prod...contentID=1846The film is going to be be shot this summer in Madrid and El Deseo wants it to be released in as many territories as possible at the same time (“to avoid piracy”) in spring 2013 without premiering at any festival. Consistent rumours have pointed out that the film is set entirely in a plane.
“It is going to be pure comedy”, said Agustin Almodóvar during an interview in Barcelona, something that his brother Pedro was willing after “two darker pictures as Broken Embraces and The Skin I Live In”. He added: “It will be a about a group of people who are on the verge of a disaster. It will be very fresh and brazen. Very much like the films that we did back in the ’80s”.
It's interesting that they're already planning on skipping the festival circuit at this stage. After Almodovar's last two films failed to win a prize at Cannes, he's probably, like, "fuck it", LOL.
...until Thierry Fremaux "visits" the shooting, like he did in 2005 with Volver and in 2008 with Broken Embraces.
Yeah. He should have made that long ago.
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