San Sebastian’s Next Gen Mexico Showcase
16.09.2022 - 15:03
/ variety.com
John Hopewell Chief International Correspondent Thanks in part to a strong co-production drive, 13 Mexican-nationality movies play at San Sebastian this year, a major presence. Perlak frames Alejandro G. Iñarritu Venice player “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” Much of the heat, in industry terms at least, will come from the the premieres and sneak peeks. In one highlight, Natalia Beristáin will world premiere “Noise” (“Ruido”), before its Netflix November bow. In possibly another, Mexico’s Laura Pancarte (“Non-Western”) unveils “Sueño Mexicano” as a pic-in-post.
Eyes will also be turned to Mexico’s latest generation of auteurs. One director is suddenly very well known: Longtime editor Natalia López Gallardo, a Berlin Jury Prize winner for “Robe of Gems.”
Others are bubbling under: Juan Pablo González whose “Dos Estaciones” impressed at Sundance, Rodrigo Ruiz Patterson, director of “Summer White,” another Sundance title, and Bruno Santamaría, a Gold Hugo best doc winner at the 2020 Chicago Festival for “Things We Dare Not Do.” Both have new projects at San Sebastian’s Co-Production Forum. The full lineup: “Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,”(Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Perlak) The first film by Iñárritu (“Birdman,” “The Revenant,” Perlak) in his native Mexico since his 2000 debut, “Amores perros.” In it, “the filmmaker takes a page — in fact, an entire book — from Fellini’s “8 1⁄2,” telling the story of a renowned Mexican journalist who is full of fears and fantasies but mostly full of himself,” Owen Gleiberman wrote in his Variety review. “Daughter of Rage,” (“La hija de todas las rabias,” Laura Baumeister, New Directors) Mixing scathing social realism and oneiric lyricism, Baumeister’s
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