Country: Mexico
Year: 2022
Duration: 0
With the mission of selling an old family property, Victor, a young and famous actor, and his wife Alicia, return to the place where he and his family spent memorable times; but where happiness was also interrupted by the death of his younger sister who drowned at the lake. The first night at the cabin, during a heavy storm, as Alicia’s ready to deliver the good news of her pregnancy to Victor, they suddenly get attacked by something or someone. Victor wakes up in a hospital, where he is notified that his wife has died while being pregnant with his child. Victor cannot remember what happened, much less his attacker. As weeks go by, the investigation is abandoned for lack of evidence and witnesses. Desperate, Victor sneaks away and decides to go back to the cabin in search of the assassin. However, upon arrival, he is met with great hostility from the town authorities. Only Paulina, an independent and kind-hearted young woman, and Maria, his old nanny, seem to care about him. However, Victor will not rest until he discovers who killed the love of his life and his son.
Biography
film director
Luis Mandoki
(Mexico City, 1954), student of fine arts in his city he pursued his interest at the San Francisco Art Institute and the London College of Printing. While attending the London International Film School, he directed his first short film, Silent Music, which won a major award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976. He returned to Mexico to direct several short films and documentaries for the Instituto Nacional Indigenista, and Centro de Produccion de Cortometraje. In 1980, he won the Ariel Award, the Mexico's Oscar, for his short film El secreto. His first feature, Motel, was chosen to represent Mexico in five film festivals. He gained worldwide attention in 1987 thanks to Gaby, A True Story, the poignant study of a writer coping with cerebral palsy, which starred Norma Aleandro, Liv Ullmann, Robert Loggia and Rachel Levin. The film received two Golden Globe Award nominations and an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress for Aleandro. After the success of the film, Mandoki’s career evolved to become one of Hollywood's foremost filmmakers, best known for his ability to direct actors. His first American feature was White Palace (1990), with Susan Sarandon and James Spader, followed by Born Yesterday (1991), with Melanie Griffith and John Goodman, When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), with Meg Ryan and Andy García, and Message in a Bottle, with Kevin Costner, Robin Wright-Penn and Paul Newman, Angel Eyes (2000), with Jennifer Lopez and James Caveziel, Trapped (2001), with Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon and Dakota Fanning. In 2004 he decided to go back to Mexico to direct Voces inocentes, with which he won the Crystal Bear at the 2004 Berlin Film Festival, and the Stanley Kramer Award from the Producers Guild of America. In 2011 he directed the feature film La Vida Precoz y Breve de Sabina Rivas. In 2022 his film Presencias has been selected the Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Silent Music (cm, 1976), Mundo mágico (cm, 1980), Campeche, un estado de ánimo (cm, 1980), El secreto (cm, 1980), Papaloapan (cm, 1982), Motel (cm, 1984), Gaby: A True Story (Gaby - Una storia vera 1987), The Edge (tv, 1989), White Palace (Calda emozione, 1990), Born Yesterday (Nata ieri, 1993), When a Man Loves a Woman (Amarsi, 1994), Message in a Bottle (Le parole che non ti ho detto, 1999), Amazing Grace (2000), Meeting Genevieve (2000), Angel Eyes (Angel Eyes - Occhi d'angelo, 2001), Trapped (24 ore, 2002), Voces inocentes (I figli della guerra, 2004), ¿Quién es el Sr. López? (2006), Fraude: México 2006 (2007), La vida precoz y breve de Sabina Rivas (2012), Dancing with Sancho Panza (2018), Presencias (2022).
Cast
& Credits
DIRECTOR: Luis Mandoki. STORY: Roberto Gerardo. SCREENPLAY: Olivia Bond. CINEMATOGRAPHY: Philip Lozano. FILM EDITING: Pablo Barbieri. PRODUCTION DESIGN: José Luis Aguilar. COSTUME DESIGN: Gabriela Diaque. MUSIC: Camille Mandoki. SOUND: Emilio Cortez. CAST: Alberto Ammann, Yalitza Aparicio, Gerardo Taracena, Marco Treviño, Andrea Santibañez, Fermín Martínez, Daniel Mandoki, Angelina Peláez. PRODUCERS: Luis Mandoki, Cher Constantine. PRODUZIONE: Dream Assignment Films.
CONTACT:
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