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EXCLUSIVE: Damián Szifron is helming El Sobrino for Netflix. Cameras are rolling connected nan Netflix movie, which is group successful nan world of classical euphony and stars Leonardo Sbaraglia (Pain and Glory).
The movie is nan latest retired of Netflix Argentina, which enjoyed world occurrence pinch The Eternaut and has greenlit a engaged slate of movies and bid of late, arsenic good arsenic moving into expanded caller offices successful Buenos Aires.
El Sobrino comes from K&S Films, nan explanation that produces The Eternaut. The play drama will travel an internationally renowned pianist astatine nan tallness of his profession (Sbaraglia). His world is turned upside down upon discovering that his nine-year-old nephew possesses a philharmonic talent that could surpass his own. There is nary confirmed English-language title yet; it translates arsenic The Nephew.
Szifron directs from his ain script. Filming kicked disconnected coming successful Ramos Mejía, successful Buenos Aires Province. We perceive that nan travel of nan protagonists will return successful Argentina, Hamburg, London and New York.
Joining Sbaraglia successful nan formed are Rita Cortese, Luisana Lopilato and Valeria Lois, alongside newcomer Luan Adler Fuks. There will besides beryllium typical appearances from Vincent Macaigne and iconic Italian prima Franco Nero (Django).
As shooting commenced, Szifron said: “Leo [Sbaraglia] is astatine an unthinkable constituent successful his acting career: lucid, profound, mature and vital, and I americium particularly excited astir nan reconnection pinch my beloved Rita, gathering Luisana and Valeria, discovering specified a young and unsocial character arsenic Luan, and nan opportunity to collaborate pinch Franco Nero, my puerility idol.”
K&S antecedently worked pinch Szifron connected Tiempo de Valientes and Relatos Salvajes. Matías Mosteirin, Hugo Sigman and Leticia Cristi are producing his caller movie.
“Damián is backmost pinch a vengeance: El Sobrino is surely nan champion book we’ve ever read,” said Mosteirin. “Szifron plays pinch genres and shows america that drama tin lead us, pinch joke and beauty, to research profound themes of nan quality condition. With this film, he invites america to bespeak connected creation and creation, family ties, emotion and loneliness, our origins, and nan transition of time.”
