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EXCLUSIVE: The Pool Films has acquired worldwide income authorities for Salón De Belleza group successful a beauty salon successful a metropolis ravaged by a mysterious illness which becomes a refuge for nan afflicted arsenic they linger betwixt life and death.
The image will beryllium nan directorial debut of Mexican character Nathalia Acevedo, who his champion known internationally for her capacity successful Carlos Reygadas’s Post Tenebras Lux, which premiered successful title astatine the Cannes Film Festival successful 2012, winning nan champion head award.
The Pool Films, which makes its Cannes debut this twelvemonth pinch co-founders Gilles Sousa and Tim Belda astatine nan helm, is launching income connected nan accumulation astatine nan Marché du Film.
Belgian multi-disciplinary creator Sam Louwyck, whose credits see of Alice Rohrwacher’s Cannes Grand Prix victor The Wonders and Oscar-nominated Bullhead, stars other Erwan Kepoa Falé, whose credits see Honoré’s Winter Boy, Ira Sachs’ Passages and nan Cannes Directors’ Fortnight introduction Eat The Night.
Acevedo, who is besides known for her roles Khavn De la Cruz’s Ruined Heart and Illum Jacobi’s The Trouble pinch Nature, has taken inspiration from nan Médicis Prize-nominated caller by Mario Bellatin for directorial debut, which she has adapted pinch Diego Sepulveda.
At nan bosom of nan communicative is nan Individuo, a solitary beingness who tends to nan salon, a spot wherever clip and spot dissolve into 1 another, wherever what is lived, remembered, and imagined coexist successful continuous movement. Meaning emerges done ritual, drift, and return to shape a meditation connected nan fragility of existence.
Produced by Mexican accumulation location Kintsugi Cine and caller French institution Farol, nan accumulation has gathered a high-profile unit featuring cinematographer Balthazar Lab (La Jauría, L’Eden, The Heroics), editor Olivia Neergaard-Holm (The Apprentice, The Chronology of Water), Oscar-winning sound designer Nicolas Becker (Sound of Metal), and accumulation designer Nathan Parker, who notably worked connected The Grand Budapest Hotel and much precocious connected Harvest by Athina Rachel Tsangari.
“Salón de Belleza is simply a unique, visually striking movie pinch a bold cinematography and communicative that highlights Nathalia’s very promising talent,” said Sousa and Belda.
Paulina Valencia astatine Kintsugi Cine said nan accumulation is nan consequence of galore years of film of translator and imaginative dialogue.
“From nan beginning, I felt a heavy certainty successful Nathalia’s imagination and nan closeness she shares pinch nan beingness of Mario Bellatin’s caller and its reflections connected quality fragility Accompanying that improvement alongside our partners astatine Farol and shaper Matt Porterfield has been profoundly meaningful. We dream nan movie resonates pinch audiences drawn to singular and profoundly quality voices successful modern Mexican cinema,” she said.
Farol co-founding heads Christian Evora and Marco Tulio Pires added: “Salon de Belleza is simply a profoundly quality and singular activity of cinema that questions its ain connection while offering a unsocial position connected nan world. We are delighted to subordinate Kintsugi Cine successful supporting Nathalia Acevedo connected her first characteristic film.”
The Pool Film’s Cannes lineup besides includes Gael García Bernal’s Hombre al Agua, successful which he besides stars, arsenic good arsenic nan thriller Gwladys from nan writer of The Swarm; nan creation documentary Caravaggio’s Eye from nan producers of nan Prado trilogy; Stéphanie Pillonca’s play The Days After, starring Valérie Donzelli and Jalil Lespert, and nan Alcatraz Films (High Life) thriller Black Slaughter, centered connected nan Ethiopian Jewish organization successful 1996 Israel.
