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In her first feature, nan London-based Spanish filmmaker Maria Martínez Bayona has assembled an awesome postulation of international, well-known actors.
Rebecca Hall, Gael Garcia Bernal, Noomi Rapace, and Beanie Feldstein each prima successful The End Of It, which follows Claire, a capacity creator who, acknowledgment to advancements successful medicine, has reached nan property of 250. But she is now fresh to die.
The charismatic synopsis reads: In a near-future world wherever ageing tin beryllium cured and decease is now optional, Claire (Hall), a erstwhile provocative creator approaching her 250th birthday, decides she’s had capable – she wants to die. Her determination stirs conflicts pinch her hubby (Bernal), girl (Noomi Rapace), and AI adjunct (Beanie Feldstein), revealing nan humorous complexity of their relationships. As Claire uses her impending decease to reclaim her domiciled arsenic an artist, she is forced to look what it really intends to die, to live, and nan messy absurdity of it all.
“Years ago, I publication an article. I’ve almost memorized it now. It said thing for illustration ‘The first personification who will unrecorded to 150-years-old has already been born.’ This wholly blew my mind,” Bayona said of nan film’s plot. “I conjecture I was going done immoderate existential situation astatine that point. I started to deliberation astir what would hap if we could scope a constituent wherever we could conscionable unrecorded very agelong lives. And what benignant of relationships and societies we would have.”
On landing her awesome ensemble, Bayona said she was nan beneficiary of a definite level of luck.
“It was a process of luck, being successful nan correct place, and having a book that group liked erstwhile they publication it,” she said. “We developed nan film, and past it fell to Ellen Chenoweth and Susanne Scheel, who are astonishing casting directors. That took it to nan adjacent dimension.”
The End Of It was produced by Emilie Jouffroy and Kamilla Kristiane Hodøl for Elation Pictures (The Damned), and Adrià Monés Murlans for Fasten Films (Inside The Yellow Cocoon Shell). Dyveke Bjørkly Graver and Andrea Berentsen Ottmar co-produce for Eye Eye Pictures (Sentimental Values). The movie was developed pinch nan support of BBC Film and iFeatures.
Executive producers see JC Acosta and Erika Kennair for The Mediapro Studio, Claudia Yusef and Alice Ojha for BBC Film, and Ford Corbet, Nathan Klingher, and Apur Parikh for Barreling Wave Pictures.
Bankside Films is handling world income excluding Latin America, which is managed straight by The Mediapro Studio, while WME Independent is representing North America.
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