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EXCLUSIVE: Cannes 2025 Un Certain Regard Jury Prize victor A Poet, by Colombian filmmaker Simon Mesa Soto, is nan inspiration for a caller U.S. movie from Elle shaper Saïd Ben Saïd and Between The Temples head Nathan Silver.
The English-language type of nan captious deed will beryllium group successful upstate New York from a screenplay by Nathan Silver and Chris Mason Wells, nan penning duo down Sundance title Between The Temples.
Filming is being lined up for later this autumn connected nan project, which is being produced by SBS Productions and has SBS International trading worldwide. Discussions will statesman successful Cannes this week. Casting is successful process.
Silver’s Sundance ’24 title Between The Temples starred Jason Schwartzman and Carol Kane and was picked up by Sony Classics.
Leading Tunisian-French movie shaper Ben Saïd, who acquired nan remake authorities to A Poet, is simply a Cannes habitué and is backmost astatine nan show this twelvemonth pinch Ira Sachs’ Competition play The Man I Love, starring Rami Malek, and Directors’ Fortnight movie Diary of a Chambermaid by Radu Jude.
Mesa Soto’s absurdist dramedy A Poet (Una Poeta) explores nan life of a struggling, middle-aged writer whose life gets a changeable successful nan limb erstwhile he starts to cultivate nan imaginative talent of a teenage girl.
Silver told Deadline: “When I was a teenager, I fell successful emotion with poetry, nan activity of Rimbaud and Nerval, and group astir learning French truthful I could publication their poems successful nan original language. I moreover went truthful acold arsenic to study successful France astatine nan property of 16, reasoning I’d beryllium entering a onshore of fellow poets, but alternatively recovered a bunch of teenagers who mostly cared astir getting stoned and making out.”
He continued: “As 1 quixotic travel ended there, different began: I would go a filmmaker. And now aggregate decades into that alleged career, I tin subordinate each excessively good to a communicative of struggling to execute creator recognition, financial stability, and finding poetry successful mundane life. After watching A Poet, I could instantly image an American type of nan film, transposing this character’s plight to a onshore that cares moreover little for poetry than Colombia.”
Co-writer Mason Wells added: “Our thought is to make thing caller that would still clasp nan furiously funny, upsetting, and moving tone of nan original. A benignant of American screen type — successful a caller connection and sound but pinch nan aforesaid infectious melody.”
