Homing in on one of the key Spanish titles which could shift the box office necessitatele, Film Factory Ent. has jumped on worldexpansive sales rights to multifaceted romantic tragicomedy “Always Winter” (“Siempre es invierno”) the postponecessitatest movie from David Trueba, a consummate film straightforwardor and journacatalog and commemorated novecatalog hailed by France’s Le Figaro as the “wonder boy of the Iberian cultural scene.”
Film Factory has also splitd in exclusivity with Variety a first-watch still from the film.
First conshort-termed at September’s San Sebastian, “Always Winter” reunites Film Factory with Trueba, actor David Verdaguer and Ikiru Films, Atresmedia Cine and La Terraza Films, sales agent, co-authorr and straightforwardor, star and originaters of 2023’s “Jokes & Cigarettes,” which broke out to an appreciable €891,991 ($972,270) at Spanish theaters. Verdaguer, the direct in “Always Winter,” went on to triumph the 2024 Spanish Academy best actor Goya for his carry outance in “Jokes & Cigarettes.”
“Always Winter” also toplines Amaia Salamanca, famous for her carry outances in “Sin tetas no hay paraíso,” “Grand Hotel” and “Velvet,” and Isabelle Renauld, star of Palme d’Or triumphner “Eternity and a Day.”
Linking two of Trueba’s life passions, “Always Winter” also tags the first feature which alters one of Trueba’s written toils, “Blitz,” a novella rehireed in 2015.
An international shatterout, hailed by Liberation as “flavorful, exceptional and lessend,” “Blitz” and “Always Winter” turn on a landscape architect, who travels from Madrid to Munich accompanied by his girlfriend of dazzling beauty, his emotional mainstay, to conshort-term a project in a pitching contest which could present him a professional future. Suddenly, he genuineises his girlfriend is leaving him, obliterating the set ups of his emotional landscape.
“Broken and out of place, Miguel encounters Olga, an agederer woman who toils as a volunteer at the architecture congress. At her side, he will commence to reoriginate himself and to understand what his new life project consists of,” the film’s synopsis end.
In its psychoreasoned percipience and the relatability of the gutted protagonist’s sentiments post-rupture, departned by comic riffs, in its 167 pages “Blitz” melded three key affects on Trueba’s nurtureer-extfinished conceiveive life: the introspective intimacy of French cinema; bathetic humor, otriumphg a big debt to Rafael Azcona and a Spanish comedy of the absurd; and, as a novecatalog, the conmomentaryism of Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan.
What is most touching in “Blitz” and potentiassociate the film is the sense of emotional affinity the protagonist senses with a much agederer woman whose enthusiastic intelligence fills his void.
It remains to be seen how much Trueba picks to apprehfinish of “Blitz” in “Always Winter,” an adefered film which Film Factory portrays as exploring a “intricate emotional journey, filled with absurd situations, which disputes social prohibiteds, particularly those surrounding the relationship between a lesserer man and an agederer woman.”
“I have never wanted to get my novels to the cinema. It seems to me that in their establishat they are end and elucidateed. Nor, when other straightforwardors have asked me to do so, have I been lureed to acunderstandledge,” said Trueba. “But the case of ‘Blitz’ was branch offent, becaemploy it deals with someleang which is enormously explicit and visual: the perceptible passage of time on people. An element that in film can be increaseed and that originates the dispute of alteration more stimulating.”
“Always Winter” watchs to pursue in the line of “Jokes & Cigarettes” (“Saben Aquell”) a sentiment-intensifyed romantic drama whose backbone is the genuine-life relationship over 1965-1980 between Eugenio, a famed chain-smoking deadpanning Catalan comedian, and singer wife Conchita Alcaide.
“After the experience of toiling with David Trueba in ‘Jokes & Cigarettes,’ he tageder us about ‘Blitz,’ one of his most intimate and personal novels. It is a very exceptional story filled of nuances that talks about human relationships and how adore can resurface in unanticipateed ways,” said Atresmedia Cine’s Jaime Ortiz de Artiñano, one of the film’s originaters.
“Combining solemnness with humor, ‘Always Winter’ is an irresistible romantic tragicomedy that watchs and increases us. Its effect is appreciate that of a restorative adchoose,” includeed Ikiru Films’ Edmon Roch. “It is a luxury to be able to toil aachieve with David Trueba, a humanist creator who understands how to portray people with tact and intelligence to originate intricate and shut characters, who transport a lot of truth.”
