Country: Spain
Year: 2008
Duration: 98'
The voyage of the Three Kings to the newborn Messiah, to bring him
gifts and show him their devotion. The three cross the desert of ice
and the desert of sand; they live in harmony with nature and the
passing seasons. They eat simple foods and sleep beneath the stars.
“I wanted to continue along the same path of Honour of the Knights
but in a more abstract sense. After the hundredth time that film was
screened, I started to get tired of this petit-bourgeois humanism about
landscapes and characters. I felt that my next film should be different.
We decided to shoot in a place we found on Google Earth fifteen days
before filming began. I went on a reconnaissance trip to Iceland, the
Canary Islands and France to look for austere locations where I could
record sound directly without any noise. I don’t like the modern world:
for this reason I chose to make a film based on the Three Wise Men.
Nobody knows if they were kings or magicians, we know nothing about
them at all in fact. It was ideal: landscapes and characters I knew
nothing about.”
Biography
film director
Albert Serra
(Banyoles, Spain, 1975) is a Catalan artist and director. Having studied philosophy and literature, he wrote plays and produced different video works. He gained an international recognition in 2016 with his first long feature, Honor of the Knights, a free adaptation of Don Quijote which was selected at Cannes' Directors Fortnight and won Best Film award at TFF. For his second film, Birdsong (2008), he took inspiration in a traditional Catalan Christmas song: this film too premiered at Directors Fortnight, and then was selected in many film festival among which TFF. In 2013, the Centre Pompidou in Paris gave him a carte blanche for a correspondence with the Argentinian director Lisandro Alonso. The same year he received the Golden Leopard in Locarno for his new film Story of my Death, inspired by Casanova’s memoirs, which was then selected in Turin. After Roi Soleil, Best Film at FID Marseille, he directed Liberté (2019), which premiere at Certain regard in Cannes and then at TFF. Pacifiction (2022) was selected in Cannes, in competition.
FILMOGRAFIA
Honor de Cavalleria (2006), El cant dels ocells (2008), Història de la meva mort (2013), La mort de Louis XIV (2016), Roi Soleil (2018), Liberté (2019), Pacifiction (2022).
Cast
& Credits
regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/director, story, screenplay Albert Serra
fotografia/cinematographer Neus Ollé, Jimmy Gimferrer
montaggio/film editing Àngel Martín, Albert Serra
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design Jimmy Gimferrer
musica/music Paul Casals
suono/sound Joan Pons, Jordi Ribas
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Lluís Carbó, Lluís Serrat Batlle, Lluís Serrat Masanellas, Montse Triola (Maria/Mary), Mark Peranson (Giuseppe/Joseph), Victoria Aragonès
produttori/producers Montse Triola, Lluis Miñarro
produzione/production Andergraun Films
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Capricci Films
fotografia/cinematographer Neus Ollé, Jimmy Gimferrer
montaggio/film editing Àngel Martín, Albert Serra
scenografia, costumi/production design, costume design Jimmy Gimferrer
musica/music Paul Casals
suono/sound Joan Pons, Jordi Ribas
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Lluís Carbó, Lluís Serrat Batlle, Lluís Serrat Masanellas, Montse Triola (Maria/Mary), Mark Peranson (Giuseppe/Joseph), Victoria Aragonès
produttori/producers Montse Triola, Lluis Miñarro
produzione/production Andergraun Films
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Capricci Films