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Andy Garcia debuted Diamond, his latest characteristic arsenic a director, past nighttime successful Cannes. The movie screened Out of Competition.
Billed arsenic a emotion missive to L.A. and a homage to nan movie noir of nan past, nan quirky whodunnit is written and directed by Garcia, who besides stars arsenic nan mysterious fig of Joe Diamond, an out-of-time backstage detective pinch an uncanny gift for solving cases that person stumped nan LAPD.
Diamond is nan consequence of a 20-year travel for Garcia, who first deed connected nan thought for nan movie while helping his girl Daniella pinch a homework assignment, which progressive penning a short communicative successful nan vein of The Long Goodbye by Raymond Chandler.
This morning, during nan film’s charismatic presser, Garcia said he primitively spent years attempting to transportation nan communicative to tv networks.
“I started to transportation an thought astir doing a bid to HBO and different networks. They each said it’s very interesting, but it wasn’t written, truthful I conscionable challenged myself and started writing,” Garcia said. “I had 60 pages for a aviator of television, but cipher bought it.”
Garcia continued to opportunity that he decided to “challenge” himself to grow his aviator book pinch nan dream that further down nan line, nan networks whitethorn “see nan longer type and possibly they’ll bargain it.”
“But anyway, 15 years went by of trying to waste it,” Garcia said, adding that he and his producers made Diamond wholly independently.
“No 1 ever supported nan film,” he said. “I was ne'er capable to waste it traditionally to a workplace aliases streamer.”
Garcia added: “Paul Soriano and his group, and our producers Jay and Frank, pulled this movie together independently. We financed it wholly independently and past sent it to Thierry and said we dream you for illustration it. And past we sewage a telephone back. They said we emotion your movie and we’d for illustration to person you here.”
The Diamond formed features Vicky Krieps, Rosemarie DeWitt, Brendan Fraser, Bill Murray, Dustin Hoffman, Demián Bichir, Danny Huston, Richardson Jackson, Yul Vazquez, Robert Patrick, and Rachel Ticotin.
The movie is nan 3rd characteristic directorial task for Garcia aft nan 1993 documentary Cachao… Como Su Ritmo No Hay Dos, and 2005’s The Lost City.
He was past successful Cannes pinch Ocean’s Thirteen successful 2007 and earlier that Things to Do In Denver When You’re Dead, which played successful Un Certain Regard successful 1995.
Later during nan presser, Garcia said he has different long-gestating projects successful his vault, including a characteristic titled Hemingway & Fuentes astir writer Ernest Hemingway’s relationship pinch Cuban vessel skipper Gregorio Fuentes. The relationship inspired nan writer’s 1952 book The Old Man and nan Sea.
“I would play Fuentes,” Garcia said.
Cannes ends connected May 23.
