Pablo Trapero is a director we always have on our radar. The filmmaker behind “Carancho,” “White Elephant,” and the crime flick “The Clan” has been on a steady rise on the festival and arthouse scene, and he’s assembling what could be his starriest and biggest project yet.
Martina Gusmán, Bérénice Bejo, Edgar Ramírez, Graciela Borges, and Joaquín Furriel have signed up for “La Quietud.” The film will tell the story of two sisters who must face the past, with the narrative set against the backdrop of Argentina’s military dictatorship expropriating real estate belonging to murdered detainees. Here’s Variety‘s synopsis of the film:
The film sees Bejo’s character, Eugenia, return from Paris to the family’s rural estate, La Quietud, after the father is hospitalized following a stroke. There she reencounters her younger sister, Mia, (Gusmán) and their mother, whom she hasn’t seen in 15 years. Old rancors, resentment, still rankle between the siblings, but their love has survived the geographic distance and is bulwarked by their common trauma by a tragic past and a troubled relationship with their parents.
Production on the movie starts on November 20th, and while Cannes is unlikely, an appearance at Venice, where Trapero won Best Director for “The Clan,” doesn’t seem like a far-fetched possibility. Intriguingly, Trapero describes the film as influenced by the cinema of Luis Bunuel, specifically, “The Exterminating Angel,” “El,” “Belle de Jour” and “The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie.” Another recent movie that was inspired by “The Exterminating Angel”? Darren Aronofsky‘s “mother!“