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Language Lessons Review: Natalie Morales Directs a Platonic Romcom For the Zoom Era Language Lessons Review: Natalie Morales Directs a Platonic Romcom For the Zoom Era Morales teams up with co-writer and co-star Mark Duplass for a friendship study that connects to the age of quarantine, even if it s not expressly about it. Guy Lodge, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Running time: Running time: 91 MIN. Courtesy of ICM It’s nearly a year since Zoom became a household name brand, its boxy chat windows, variable resolution and capacity for technical glitches shaping how many communicated with friends, family and colleagues during a global pandemic to the extent that “Zoom fatigue” is now the defining buzz term of 2021 so far. A gentle relationship study playing out entirely through the cramped, sterile rectangles of a virtual chat app, actor-director Natalie Morales’ freshman feature “Language Lessons” arrives just as our collective patie ....
Fabula Brings Fernando Guzzoni s Land of Savages to EFM Co-Prod Market Anna Marie de la Fuente, provided by March 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail As the only Latin American film to participate in the European Film Market’s Co-Production Market, Chilean filmmaker Fernando Guzzoni’s “Land of Savages” (“La Tierra de los Salvajes”) is a breed apart. “With this new genre film, we seek to connect with a wider global audience,” said producer Rocio Jadue of Fábula (“A Fantastic Woman”), who describes the film as a cross between a Western and a thriller. More from Variety “Fernando is a director who, since his debut [“Dog Flesh,” which snagged San Sebastian’s New Directors Prize in 2012], has managed to win over audiences at the most prestigious film festivals; he’s an interesting talent for Fábula and with this new project, we plan to take the next step in his career with him,” she added. ....
Hungarian Broadcaster RTL Klub Boards Cold War Spy Drama Balaton Brigade (EXCLUSIVE) Christopher Vourlias, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Hungarian broadcaster RTL Klub has boarded “Balaton Brigade,” a Cold War spy drama set on the shores of Hungary’s Lake Balaton in the summer of ’86, Variety has learned exclusively. The series is among the projects that will be pitched this week at the Berlinale Series Market’s Co-Pro Series. The show follows a secret agent in the elite Stasi unit codenamed the Balaton Brigade, a team tasked with observing East German holidaymakers as they meet their relatives from west of the Iron Curtain on the sun-kissed shores of the “Hungarian Sea.” Forging an uneasy alliance with a local counterpart, he engages in increasingly intense psychological warfare against their target, only to realize that the tables are being turned even as he hatches his own plot to escape with his family to the West. ....
Chile s Film and TV Production Biz Revs Up Its Engines Anna Marie de la Fuente, provided by March 1, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail After enduring endless months of COVID-19 lockdown, Chile’s film and TV industry is revving up production once more. And several women are leading the charge. Various high-profile titles are either in production or setting up dates, such as season two of Lucía Puenzo’s hit series “La Jauria” and, starting this month, Francisca Alegria’s debut feature, “The Cow Who Sang a Song About the Future.” Fernando Guzzoni’s “Blanquita” aims to start principal photography by July, says producer Giancarlo Nasi of Quijote Films, who also presides over Chile’s Film Arts Academy, founded in 2018. ....