Before a crowd of filmmakers and journalists, Mexico’s Guadalajara Festival reached an industry crescendo on Tuesday with the presentation of prizes for its Co-Production Meetings which brought producers and directors face to face with potential partners as well as giving opportunities to filmmakers to pitch their projects to industry service companies sponsoring in-kind awards.
It was difficult to discern any strong trends among favored projects as prize winners ranged from documentaries to features, though fatherless or deteriorating families seemed to be at the core of many of the titles. Recipients hailed from across Central and South America and were about equally divided between men and woman, with some prizes going to teams comprising just female filmmakers a sign perhaps that the legendary machismo of Latin America may be subsiding, at least, in the film industry.
Top winner was the documentary project “Jirafas,” an Ecuador/Chile co-production in early development,...
It was difficult to discern any strong trends among favored projects as prize winners ranged from documentaries to features, though fatherless or deteriorating families seemed to be at the core of many of the titles. Recipients hailed from across Central and South America and were about equally divided between men and woman, with some prizes going to teams comprising just female filmmakers a sign perhaps that the legendary machismo of Latin America may be subsiding, at least, in the film industry.
Top winner was the documentary project “Jirafas,” an Ecuador/Chile co-production in early development,...
- 10/7/2021
- by Jeffrey Sipe
- Variety Film + TV
Chile’s Picardia Films, headed by director-producer Diego Rougier, has boarded “The White Room” (“La Habitación Blanca”), the next feature by Argentina’s Ana Piterbarg who caught international attention with Viggo Mortensen starrer “Everybody Has a Plan,” her 2012 feature debut distributed by Fox Intl. Productions.
Written and to be directed by Piterbarg, “The White Room” is lead produced by Buenos Aires-based Bikini Films, headed by Edson Sidonie. His credits include Siew Gua Yeo’s 2018 Locarno Golden Leopard winner “The Once and the Future” and Toronto world premiere “Karnawal,” which scooped best direction at last year’s Guadalajara fest and best Ibero-American picture at 2021’s Malaga Festival.
“The White Room” is one of the highest profile projects at this year Guadalajara Co-Production Meetings which kick off Oct. 3.
Fiction, but based on the personal experiences of the director, “The White Room” begins with Clara, aged 5, who journeys with her father and her...
Written and to be directed by Piterbarg, “The White Room” is lead produced by Buenos Aires-based Bikini Films, headed by Edson Sidonie. His credits include Siew Gua Yeo’s 2018 Locarno Golden Leopard winner “The Once and the Future” and Toronto world premiere “Karnawal,” which scooped best direction at last year’s Guadalajara fest and best Ibero-American picture at 2021’s Malaga Festival.
“The White Room” is one of the highest profile projects at this year Guadalajara Co-Production Meetings which kick off Oct. 3.
Fiction, but based on the personal experiences of the director, “The White Room” begins with Clara, aged 5, who journeys with her father and her...
- 10/2/2021
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
Viggo Mortensen is the first announced recipient of San Sebastian’s prestigious Donostia Award for this year’s 68th edition. In addition to picking up the career recognition award, Mortensen will also present his directorial debut “Falling” for its European premiere at the festival.
A three-time Oscar nominee for his work in David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises,” Matt Ross’ “Captain Fantastic” and most recently Peter Farrelly’s best picture winner “Green Book,” Mortensen is best known for saving Middle Earth as Aragorn, ranger and abdicated heir to the throne of Isildur, King of Gondor, in Peter Jackson’s Academy Award-winning “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
When not in front of the camera, Mortensen is an established painter, poet, photographer and musician who speaks seven languages. His “Lord of the Rings” payday also allowed him to start his own publishing label, Perceval Press, which specializes in art, critical writing and poetry.
A three-time Oscar nominee for his work in David Cronenberg’s “Eastern Promises,” Matt Ross’ “Captain Fantastic” and most recently Peter Farrelly’s best picture winner “Green Book,” Mortensen is best known for saving Middle Earth as Aragorn, ranger and abdicated heir to the throne of Isildur, King of Gondor, in Peter Jackson’s Academy Award-winning “Lord of the Rings” trilogy.
When not in front of the camera, Mortensen is an established painter, poet, photographer and musician who speaks seven languages. His “Lord of the Rings” payday also allowed him to start his own publishing label, Perceval Press, which specializes in art, critical writing and poetry.
- 6/22/2020
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Falling Photo: Courtesy of Sundance Insitutet San Sebastian Film Festival has announced that Viggo Mortensen will receive a Donostia Award in recognition of his career at its 68th edition.
Viggo Mortensen will receive a Donostia for lifetime achievement in San Sebastian Photo: Iñaki Pardo The star will also present his directorial debut Falling, which premiered as the closing film at this year's Sundance.
The film stars Lance Henriksen and Mortensen, who also wrote the screenplay, as a father and son whose different worlds collide.
In the past 35 years, Mortensen has featured in about 50 films by filmmakers including David Cronenberg, Peter Weir, Jane Campion, Peter Jackson, Gus Van Sant, Brian de Palma, Agustín Díaz Yanes, Ana Piterbarg, Lisandro Alonso, David Oelhoffen, Peter Farrelly and Matt Ross.
Although perhaps best known to mainstream audiences for the role of Aragorn in the Lord Of The Rings franchise, he has also been nominated for...
Viggo Mortensen will receive a Donostia for lifetime achievement in San Sebastian Photo: Iñaki Pardo The star will also present his directorial debut Falling, which premiered as the closing film at this year's Sundance.
The film stars Lance Henriksen and Mortensen, who also wrote the screenplay, as a father and son whose different worlds collide.
In the past 35 years, Mortensen has featured in about 50 films by filmmakers including David Cronenberg, Peter Weir, Jane Campion, Peter Jackson, Gus Van Sant, Brian de Palma, Agustín Díaz Yanes, Ana Piterbarg, Lisandro Alonso, David Oelhoffen, Peter Farrelly and Matt Ross.
Although perhaps best known to mainstream audiences for the role of Aragorn in the Lord Of The Rings franchise, he has also been nominated for...
- 6/22/2020
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Madrid — Cecilia Roth starrer “Alice,” Ana Piterbarg’s “La Habitación Blanca,” Brazil’s sure-to-be controversial “Princesa,” and Mexico’s “Intersex” look like potential standouts in the just-announced movie project pitching platform Maff Online by Filmarket Hub, part of the biggest push by far into a virtual marketplace made by any festival in the Spanish-speaking world.
Launched by Spain’s Malaga Festival and Filmarket Hub, a Spain-based year-round online market, Maff (the Malaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event) will run April 27 to May 10.
Already, however, Málaga is staging a virtual version of Malaga Wip, which last year brought onto the market the Spanish horror allegory “El Hoyo” (The Platform”), a recent No. 1 movie on Netflix in the U.S. despite its Spanish language.
Showcasing movies in post-production, Málaga Wip runs March 23 to April 10. Parallel to this, a series of masterclasses given by experts in Spain and Latin America, aimed at honing the skills of Maff producers,...
Launched by Spain’s Malaga Festival and Filmarket Hub, a Spain-based year-round online market, Maff (the Malaga Festival Fund & Co-Production Event) will run April 27 to May 10.
Already, however, Málaga is staging a virtual version of Malaga Wip, which last year brought onto the market the Spanish horror allegory “El Hoyo” (The Platform”), a recent No. 1 movie on Netflix in the U.S. despite its Spanish language.
Showcasing movies in post-production, Málaga Wip runs March 23 to April 10. Parallel to this, a series of masterclasses given by experts in Spain and Latin America, aimed at honing the skills of Maff producers,...
- 4/9/2020
- by John Hopewell and Emilio Mayorga
- Variety Film + TV
Moretensen also stars in the film with Lance Henriksen and Laura Linney.
This week, Viggo Mortensen is heading to London to begin the editing process on Falling, his directorial debut. The film, in which Mortensen stars with Lance Henriksen and Laura Linney (see an exclusive first look above), is about a conservative father who moves from his rural farm to live with his gay son’s family in Los Angeles. The project is a very personal story, as Mortensen reveals in a catch-up with Screen.
“Both of my parents were ill. When my mother passed away, I was flying across...
This week, Viggo Mortensen is heading to London to begin the editing process on Falling, his directorial debut. The film, in which Mortensen stars with Lance Henriksen and Laura Linney (see an exclusive first look above), is about a conservative father who moves from his rural farm to live with his gay son’s family in Los Angeles. The project is a very personal story, as Mortensen reveals in a catch-up with Screen.
“Both of my parents were ill. When my mother passed away, I was flying across...
- 5/15/2019
- by Tom Grater
- ScreenDaily
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Set in Buenos Aires and the bleak, exotic Tigre delta area 20 miles to the north, Ana Piterbarg's slow, sombre noir thriller explores the familiar theme of dual identity that's been with us in comic, romantic and tragic forms since Shakespeare's tales of separated twins, Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors. Probably the most memorable recent instance is Antonioni's last great movie, The Passenger, in which Jack Nicholson, as a TV reporter at the end of his tether, takes over the identity of a near double who's died in the next room in a Saharan hotel, only to discover the stranger is an arms dealer in trouble with guerrillas.
In Piterbarg's picture, Mortensen (acting in the fluent Spanish he learned during his childhood in Argentina) plays the middle-aged twins, Agustín and Pedro. Agustín, an upright paediatrician living in Buenos Aires,...
Set in Buenos Aires and the bleak, exotic Tigre delta area 20 miles to the north, Ana Piterbarg's slow, sombre noir thriller explores the familiar theme of dual identity that's been with us in comic, romantic and tragic forms since Shakespeare's tales of separated twins, Twelfth Night and The Comedy of Errors. Probably the most memorable recent instance is Antonioni's last great movie, The Passenger, in which Jack Nicholson, as a TV reporter at the end of his tether, takes over the identity of a near double who's died in the next room in a Saharan hotel, only to discover the stranger is an arms dealer in trouble with guerrillas.
In Piterbarg's picture, Mortensen (acting in the fluent Spanish he learned during his childhood in Argentina) plays the middle-aged twins, Agustín and Pedro. Agustín, an upright paediatrician living in Buenos Aires,...
- 6/1/2013
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
The Comedian | Byzantium | The Big Wedding | Populaire | The Purge | Blood | Everybody Has A Plan | No One Lives | Man To Man | Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
The Comedian
(15) (Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
Byzantium
(15) (Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/Us/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
The Comedian
(15) (Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
Byzantium
(15) (Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/Us/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
- 6/1/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The Comedian | Byzantium | The Big Wedding | Populaire | The Purge | Blood | Everybody Has A Plan | No One Lives | Man To Man | Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani
The Comedian (15)
(Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
Byzantium (15)
(Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/Us/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
The Comedian (15)
(Tom Shkolnik, 2012, UK) Edward Hogg, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett. 79 mins
There's an uncanny degree of naturalism to this downbeat sketch of a lost London soul, confused over his sexuality, his faltering stand-up career and his place in life. It was made with a Dogme-like set of rules encouraging spontaneous improvisation in real locales. The result is somewhere between Mike Leigh and mumblecore, a meandering slice of life that often hits the truth.
Byzantium (15)
(Neil Jordan, 2013, UK/Us/Ire) Gemma Arterton, Saoirse Ronan, Sam Riley. 118 mins
There might be little left to say about vampires, but genre veteran Jordan has a better right (and better actors) than most to say it. This tale of two 200-year-old women hiding out in a coastal town is more mature and less gory than most offerings.
- 5/31/2013
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Ana Piterbarg's strange drama has the premise of a high-concept thriller, but the drifting feel of arthouse realism
Ana Piterbarg is an Argentinian director making her feature debut, and her producer and star is Viggo Mortensen, who spent his childhood in Buenos Aires and speaks Spanish. It is a strange film, and you have to let it grow on you: a drama with the premise of a high-concept thriller, but the drifting feel of arthouse realism. Mortensen plays identical twins: Agustín is a wealthy doctor in the city; Pedro is a loser who still lives in the remote Argentinian swampland of their childhood and is mixed up in shady business. Agustín is going through a crisis about his life choices and the existence he is locked into, and this is the moment Pedro chooses to pay his estranged brother a visit with the news that he has terminal cancer.
Ana Piterbarg is an Argentinian director making her feature debut, and her producer and star is Viggo Mortensen, who spent his childhood in Buenos Aires and speaks Spanish. It is a strange film, and you have to let it grow on you: a drama with the premise of a high-concept thriller, but the drifting feel of arthouse realism. Mortensen plays identical twins: Agustín is a wealthy doctor in the city; Pedro is a loser who still lives in the remote Argentinian swampland of their childhood and is mixed up in shady business. Agustín is going through a crisis about his life choices and the existence he is locked into, and this is the moment Pedro chooses to pay his estranged brother a visit with the news that he has terminal cancer.
- 5/30/2013
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
Director: Ana Piterbarg; Screenwriter Ana Piterbarg, Ana Cohan; Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino, Sofía Gala; Running time: 118 mins; Certificate: 15
Actors who can genuinely rise above subpar material are few and far between, and Viggo Mortensen is one of them. His soulful lead turn as a German scholar-turned-Nazi sympathizer elevated an otherwise shaky stage adaptation in 2008's Good, and his tongue-in-cheek take on Freud was one of the few redeeming features of David Cronenberg's stilted and misjudged A Dangerous Method.
In Everybody Has a Plan, the feature debut from Argentinian director Ana Piterbarg, we're gifted with not one but two Mortensen performances. This, surely, should be a done deal. So why is the end result - with its enticing blend of character study, crime drama and potboiler plotting - such a joyless chore?
Admittedly, the premise is enough to make you nervous. Frustrated Buenos Aires paediatrician...
Actors who can genuinely rise above subpar material are few and far between, and Viggo Mortensen is one of them. His soulful lead turn as a German scholar-turned-Nazi sympathizer elevated an otherwise shaky stage adaptation in 2008's Good, and his tongue-in-cheek take on Freud was one of the few redeeming features of David Cronenberg's stilted and misjudged A Dangerous Method.
In Everybody Has a Plan, the feature debut from Argentinian director Ana Piterbarg, we're gifted with not one but two Mortensen performances. This, surely, should be a done deal. So why is the end result - with its enticing blend of character study, crime drama and potboiler plotting - such a joyless chore?
Admittedly, the premise is enough to make you nervous. Frustrated Buenos Aires paediatrician...
- 5/29/2013
- Digital Spy
Viggo Mortensen doesn't just play twins in his new noirish thriller, he also took charge of the subtitles. The actor talks about challenging roles – and why he turned The Hobbit down
Viggo Mortensen is softly spoken, clean-shaven and casually dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. If you saw him in a restaurant, you'd smile at him not because you'd think there's a huge movie star, but because he radiates a gentle integrity and, well, niceness. But he's a disconcerting interviewee. The conversation goes like this. I ask question A, expecting answer B. He listens carefully, considers, and gives me answer E, and then we find ourselves on point K, V, or Z.
Luckily, we do keep returning to Everybody Has a Plan, a film that's close to his heart. Although it's the fourth he's done in Spanish, it's his first Argentinian movie. "It was like going home," says the star,...
Viggo Mortensen is softly spoken, clean-shaven and casually dressed in jeans and a T-shirt. If you saw him in a restaurant, you'd smile at him not because you'd think there's a huge movie star, but because he radiates a gentle integrity and, well, niceness. But he's a disconcerting interviewee. The conversation goes like this. I ask question A, expecting answer B. He listens carefully, considers, and gives me answer E, and then we find ourselves on point K, V, or Z.
Luckily, we do keep returning to Everybody Has a Plan, a film that's close to his heart. Although it's the fourth he's done in Spanish, it's his first Argentinian movie. "It was like going home," says the star,...
- 5/28/2013
- by Imogen Tilden
- The Guardian - Film News
If you, for some reason, want to watch Viggo Mortensen watching Viggo Mortensen take a bath, then, my friend, your luck is in – as the renowned star of The Lord of the Rings franchise turns in one of the finest performances of his career, taking on the role(s) of identical twins in Ana Piterbarg’s intense, if somewhat unfulfilling drama Everybody Has a Plan.
Set in Argentina, we delve into the life of troubled paediatrician Agustín (Mortensen) who is paid a shock visit from his twin Pedro (Mortensen, again), a beekeeper who has fled his home town following an unsavoury murder case of which he played a part. After revealing he is terminally ill, Agustín assumes his brother’s identity once he has passed away, deciding to travel back home and pick up the pieces. Though able to impersonate Pedro to a tee, adapting to a different way of...
Set in Argentina, we delve into the life of troubled paediatrician Agustín (Mortensen) who is paid a shock visit from his twin Pedro (Mortensen, again), a beekeeper who has fled his home town following an unsavoury murder case of which he played a part. After revealing he is terminally ill, Agustín assumes his brother’s identity once he has passed away, deciding to travel back home and pick up the pieces. Though able to impersonate Pedro to a tee, adapting to a different way of...
- 5/28/2013
- by Stefan Pape
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Second poster for Ana Piterbarg's crime drama Everybody Has a Plan starring Viggo Mortensen. Taglined with "The Past Will Hunt You Down," this intriguing film which marks the feature-length directorial debut of Piterbarg (TV's Champions of Life), follows Mortensen's character who assumes the identity of his deceased twin in Argentina. Also known as Todos tenemos un plan, Everybody Has a Plan includes Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino, Sofia Gala and Oscar Alegre. The film was nominated for three awards by 2012 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Argentina. Mariela Busuievski, Vanessa Ragone and Mortensen produce.
- 5/16/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
We’ve been given the first look at the poster for Viggo Mortensen’s latest movie Everybody had a Plan which hits UK cinemas 31st May. It’s directed by Ana Piterbarg and co-stars Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego and Javier Godino.
Everybody Has A Plan tells the story of Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon what for him has become, after years of living a frustrating existence in Buenos Aires. After the death of his twin brother, Pedro, Agustín decides to start a new life, adopting the identity of his brother and returning to the mysterious region of the Delta, in the Tigre, where they lived when they were boys. However, shortly after his return, Agustín will find himself unwillingly involved in the dangerous criminal world that was a part of his brother’s life.
As is ever the case, anything that stars Viggo Mortensen is worth watching and...
Everybody Has A Plan tells the story of Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon what for him has become, after years of living a frustrating existence in Buenos Aires. After the death of his twin brother, Pedro, Agustín decides to start a new life, adopting the identity of his brother and returning to the mysterious region of the Delta, in the Tigre, where they lived when they were boys. However, shortly after his return, Agustín will find himself unwillingly involved in the dangerous criminal world that was a part of his brother’s life.
As is ever the case, anything that stars Viggo Mortensen is worth watching and...
- 5/15/2013
- by David Sztypuljak
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Title: Everybody Has a Plan Director: Ana Piterbarg Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino, Sofia Gala Castaglione A good number of actresses, including Penelope Cruz, have worked for years in multiple languages. And while it seems a bit less common with actors, recent James Bond villain Javier Bardem scored a Best Actor Oscar nomination for 2010′s “Biutiful” while speaking in his native tongue. But apart from Kristin Scott Thomas – and recently Will Ferrell, who took up Spanish for the comedy “Casa de Mi Padre” — few native English speakers aim to flex their bilingual skills on the big screen. And that’s a big part of the reason writer-director Ana Piterbarg’s “Everybody Has [ Read More ]
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- 3/26/2013
- by bsimon
- ShockYa
Viggo Mortensen, best known for his roles in Eastern Promises and The Lord of the Rings, is a huge soccer fan. He almost got thrown out of an airport once after loudly celebrating a goal by his favorite Argentinian club team, San Lorenzo. Coincidentally, it’s his love of soccer that brought him to his newest role—playing twins in the Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan.
First time writer-director Ana Piterbarg was taking her son to swimming lessons at the San Lorenzo sports club in Buenos Aires when she ran into Mortensen. She introduced herself and told him about a screenplay she was writing about two twins who were estranged and that took place in the Tigre Delta, a maze of islands not far from Buenos Aires. Mortensen, intrigued, asked her to send him the script. It was the story he had been waiting for. Finally, he could return to the country of his childhood and shoot a film. (Mortensen grew up in Argentina, living there until he was eleven.)
It’s a moody noir film. After the death of his twin brother Augustín (Mortensen) travels back to the islands where he grew up. He hasn’t been back in years. Augustín is trying to escape his frustrating, boring existence as a well-off straight-laced doctor living in Buenos Aires. He decides to take on his brother’s identity, he pretends to be Pedro. As he rides in a boat along the misty, cold river towards his brother’s rickety log cabin he has a run in with some locals. He gets roughed up, gets called a liar, and is told that people are looking for him. Slowly he begins to realize that his brother was wrapped up in something very dangerous but he isn’t quite sure what it is.
LatinoBuzz sat down with Mortensen to talk about the challenges of playing identical twins, his love of Argentina, and what it’s like to support the same soccer team as the pope.
LatinoBuzz: Your family is American, Canadian, and Danish and you were born in New York but grew up in Argentina. What drew your family to South America?
Mortensen: My dad got work down there, working in agriculture, managing farms so we moved when I was an infant and lived there until I was eleven. The first decade of your life is really important, it’s formative. I never lost the feeling for the country, for Argentina and for the language spoken there. I still have that inside me. This is the fourth movie I have shot in Spanish but it’s the first time in Argentina, all the other movies were shot in Spain. I’ve always wanted to make a film in Argentina. I had been looking for the right story, something challenging and interesting. Argentina has a long tradition of producing good movies and producing really good actors and directors. I always hoped I could become part of Argentine film history and with this movie now I am.
LatinoBuzz: Do you identify as Latino, Latin American, or Argentinian? Do you use these terms to describe yourself?
Mortensen: I’m not a big fan of pigeonholing people or labeling people. I just don’t look at things that way but I do feel comfortable in the country. It’s like going home when I go there, every time I go to Argentina. But I also feel that way in other countries like in Denmark where my family is from, where I have spent a lot of time. I guess it’s also part of moving around a lot, being around a lot of different cultures. I have a multicultural background so I tend to have an open mind about things and I find other cultures interesting. I really enjoy my job and part of my job is looking at the world in a way that is different from my own.
LatinoBuzz: What was the process of preparing to play twins like? How is it different from preparing for just one role?
Mortensen: With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things. My major concern was how to make two twins who look very similar, in this case identical twins, seem like two distinct people. Often times in other movies when a person is playing twins or playing multiple characters or like Eddie Murphy who sometimes will play the whole cast, sometimes it doesn’t work very well. It seems like a stunt. It’s a push-pull thing. I looked for differences in them, body language, their way of speaking, their posture, their point of view. And I looked for what they have in common. They are two brothers with not much love between them but they have a common memory, they grew up together.
LatinoBuzz: The movie was shot on the islands of the Tigre Delta. What was it like to shoot there? Had you been there before?
Mortensen: I had been there when I was a kid and I enjoyed it. But shooting a movie there, it was technically challenging. It was very cold, it was during the winter. And we had to transport everything by boat, the cast, the crew, the equipment. We had to deal with tide changes, it was tough. But, it ended up being a good idea to shoot in the winter. It really accentuated things, the mood of the story. And the landscape ended up playing an important part.
LatinoBuzz: Alright, one last question. Since you grew up in Argentina you must be a soccer fan. What’s your favorite team?
Mortensen: San Lorenzo, a club team in Argentina.
LatinoBuzz: Oh, like the pope?
Mortensen: Yeah, having the pope support the team is a big help. Everyone outside of Argentina, they know about Boca Juniors, they know about Messi and what a great player he is but they don’t always realize where San Lorenzo is from or even know about the team. So, I have always tried to talk about the team. I even give away lots of team jerseys. But now with the pope, he’s a lifelong unabashed supporter like I am, he’s taken a big load off my shoulders (laughs).
LatinoBuzz: And now you have God on your side!
Mortensen: (laughs) But the flipside of that is if we can’t win now, we’ll never win. San Lorenzo is kind of like the New York Mets. Once in while we have a great run but most of the time we’re just hanging in there. The last time we were champions in the league was 2007 but it doesn’t happen very often. So, when it does it makes it even more sweet.
Todos tenemos un plan (Everybody Has a Plan) opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, March 22.
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on Twitter and Facebook.
First time writer-director Ana Piterbarg was taking her son to swimming lessons at the San Lorenzo sports club in Buenos Aires when she ran into Mortensen. She introduced herself and told him about a screenplay she was writing about two twins who were estranged and that took place in the Tigre Delta, a maze of islands not far from Buenos Aires. Mortensen, intrigued, asked her to send him the script. It was the story he had been waiting for. Finally, he could return to the country of his childhood and shoot a film. (Mortensen grew up in Argentina, living there until he was eleven.)
It’s a moody noir film. After the death of his twin brother Augustín (Mortensen) travels back to the islands where he grew up. He hasn’t been back in years. Augustín is trying to escape his frustrating, boring existence as a well-off straight-laced doctor living in Buenos Aires. He decides to take on his brother’s identity, he pretends to be Pedro. As he rides in a boat along the misty, cold river towards his brother’s rickety log cabin he has a run in with some locals. He gets roughed up, gets called a liar, and is told that people are looking for him. Slowly he begins to realize that his brother was wrapped up in something very dangerous but he isn’t quite sure what it is.
LatinoBuzz sat down with Mortensen to talk about the challenges of playing identical twins, his love of Argentina, and what it’s like to support the same soccer team as the pope.
LatinoBuzz: Your family is American, Canadian, and Danish and you were born in New York but grew up in Argentina. What drew your family to South America?
Mortensen: My dad got work down there, working in agriculture, managing farms so we moved when I was an infant and lived there until I was eleven. The first decade of your life is really important, it’s formative. I never lost the feeling for the country, for Argentina and for the language spoken there. I still have that inside me. This is the fourth movie I have shot in Spanish but it’s the first time in Argentina, all the other movies were shot in Spain. I’ve always wanted to make a film in Argentina. I had been looking for the right story, something challenging and interesting. Argentina has a long tradition of producing good movies and producing really good actors and directors. I always hoped I could become part of Argentine film history and with this movie now I am.
LatinoBuzz: Do you identify as Latino, Latin American, or Argentinian? Do you use these terms to describe yourself?
Mortensen: I’m not a big fan of pigeonholing people or labeling people. I just don’t look at things that way but I do feel comfortable in the country. It’s like going home when I go there, every time I go to Argentina. But I also feel that way in other countries like in Denmark where my family is from, where I have spent a lot of time. I guess it’s also part of moving around a lot, being around a lot of different cultures. I have a multicultural background so I tend to have an open mind about things and I find other cultures interesting. I really enjoy my job and part of my job is looking at the world in a way that is different from my own.
LatinoBuzz: What was the process of preparing to play twins like? How is it different from preparing for just one role?
Mortensen: With any character I have played there’s infinite possibilities for how they might behave, depending on who they are talking to or how they react to things. My major concern was how to make two twins who look very similar, in this case identical twins, seem like two distinct people. Often times in other movies when a person is playing twins or playing multiple characters or like Eddie Murphy who sometimes will play the whole cast, sometimes it doesn’t work very well. It seems like a stunt. It’s a push-pull thing. I looked for differences in them, body language, their way of speaking, their posture, their point of view. And I looked for what they have in common. They are two brothers with not much love between them but they have a common memory, they grew up together.
LatinoBuzz: The movie was shot on the islands of the Tigre Delta. What was it like to shoot there? Had you been there before?
Mortensen: I had been there when I was a kid and I enjoyed it. But shooting a movie there, it was technically challenging. It was very cold, it was during the winter. And we had to transport everything by boat, the cast, the crew, the equipment. We had to deal with tide changes, it was tough. But, it ended up being a good idea to shoot in the winter. It really accentuated things, the mood of the story. And the landscape ended up playing an important part.
LatinoBuzz: Alright, one last question. Since you grew up in Argentina you must be a soccer fan. What’s your favorite team?
Mortensen: San Lorenzo, a club team in Argentina.
LatinoBuzz: Oh, like the pope?
Mortensen: Yeah, having the pope support the team is a big help. Everyone outside of Argentina, they know about Boca Juniors, they know about Messi and what a great player he is but they don’t always realize where San Lorenzo is from or even know about the team. So, I have always tried to talk about the team. I even give away lots of team jerseys. But now with the pope, he’s a lifelong unabashed supporter like I am, he’s taken a big load off my shoulders (laughs).
LatinoBuzz: And now you have God on your side!
Mortensen: (laughs) But the flipside of that is if we can’t win now, we’ll never win. San Lorenzo is kind of like the New York Mets. Once in while we have a great run but most of the time we’re just hanging in there. The last time we were champions in the league was 2007 but it doesn’t happen very often. So, when it does it makes it even more sweet.
Todos tenemos un plan (Everybody Has a Plan) opens in New York and Los Angeles on Friday, March 22.
Written by Juan Caceres and Vanessa Erazo, LatinoBuzz is a weekly feature on SydneysBuzz that highlights Latino indie talent and upcoming trends in Latino film with the specific objective of presenting a broad range of Latino voices. Follow @LatinoBuzz on Twitter and Facebook.
- 3/21/2013
- by Vanessa Erazo
- Sydney's Buzz
A self-assured feature debut from Argentine writer/director Ana Piterbarg, the moody identity-swap thriller Everyone Has a Plan features a remarkable turn by Viggo Mortensen, working in Spanish, as both Agustín, a preternaturally depressed Buenos Aires physician, and Agustín’s identical twin Pedro, a rural beekeeper who suddenly shows up at Agustín’s, dying of cancer and suggesting euthanasia. Seeking a way out of his staid, bourgeoise existence, defined by his unwillingness to adopt a child with his seemingly long-suffering wife, Agustín chooses to take his brother’s place, relocating to the Tigre delta, an evocative and historically rich backwater where Pedro lived. After assuming the dead …...
- 3/21/2013
- by Brandon Harris
- Filmmaker Magazine-Director Interviews
Cine Latino covers, well, all things relating to Latino culture and the movies, every Wednesday. Viggo Mortensen returns to the big screen this week, causing double the trouble playing twins in his fourth Spanish-language film, Todos Tenemos Un Plan (Everybody Has a Plan). Directed by first-time film director Ana Piterbarg, the story follows twin brothers—one a poverty-stricken thug, the other a doctor—who embark on a desperate quest for a second chance. We chatted with Mortensen about who he would pick as his real-life twin brother, what it was like to revisit Argentina where he grew up, and his upcoming film The Two Faces of January. Movies.com: You're known for being so selective with the roles you take on. What turned you on to this project— the...
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- 3/21/2013
- by Elisa Osegueda
- Movies.com
Cine Latino covers, well, all things relating to Latino culture and the movies, every Wednesday. Viggo Mortensen returns to the big screen this week, causing double the trouble playing twins in his fourth Spanish language film, Todos Tenemos Un Plan (Everybody Has a Plan). Directed by first-time film director Ana Piterbarg, the story follows twin brothers—one a poverty-stricken thug, the other a doctor--who embark in a desperate quest for a second chance. I chatted with Mortensen about who he would pick as his real-life twin brother, what it was like to revisit Argentina where he grew up, and his upcoming film The Two Faces of January. Fandango: You're known for being so selective with the roles you take on. What turned you on to this project— the...
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- 3/21/2013
- by [email protected]
- Fandango
Of all the actors whose lives were changed by the Lord of the Rings movies, few have had as interesting a post-Rings career as Viggo Mortensen. Since playing Aragorn, he's gone on to star in such quiet but powerful movies as Good, The Road, and David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method. Now he's playing identical twins in Argentine director Ana Piterbarg’s Everybody Has a Plan (in limited release Friday), about a man who murders his identical twin, assumes that twin's identity, then finds himself in the middle of a violent feud. It's a moody, tense story, and Mortensen gives a transfixing performance — entirely in Spanish. (He grew up in Argentina and is fluent in the language.) Vulture spoke to the actor about his new film, all the preparation that goes into his work, and his nostalgia for Middle-earth.First thing's first: As someone who grew up in Argentina, what...
- 3/20/2013
- by Bilge Ebiri
- Vulture
Normally when an Oscar-nominated actor like Viggo Mortensen stars in a movie, it's going to get a lot of attention at all stages of production, but that wasn't really the case with Everybody Has a Plan , a lower-budget film from Argentina that played at the Toronto International Film Festival last September which is another showcase for one of the more underrated dramatic actors working today. Written and directed by Ana Piterbarg, Mortensen plays the dual role of Augustin and Pedro, twin brothers living in different parts of the country - Augustin is a doctor in Buenos Aires, who is unsatisfied with his life, and Pedro dwells in the remote area of the Tigre delta. When Pedro dies, Augustin decides to take over his brother's identity not realizing how far his brother has gotten...
- 3/20/2013
- Comingsoon.net
11. Zama – Dir. Lucretia Martel
Why This Makes Top 10: At number eleven we have Argentinean filmmaker Lucretia Martel’s latest film, her first since 2008’s The Headless Woman (a film that critics were slow to warm to, but ended up being on many a best end of year list in 2008/2009). Previous titles include her stunning debut, 2001’s La Cienega, along with 2004’s The Holy Girl. Her latest is a period piece based on the novel by Antonio de Benedetto and will be produced by Lita Stantic, El Deseo (the Almodovar Bros’ company), as well as a still to be named French producer. Martel is one of the most prolific names to come out the New Argentinean Wave and this looks to be a massively mounted period piece we’re eager to get a look at.
The Gist: Written in 1956, Zama is an existential novel about Don Diego de Zama, a...
Why This Makes Top 10: At number eleven we have Argentinean filmmaker Lucretia Martel’s latest film, her first since 2008’s The Headless Woman (a film that critics were slow to warm to, but ended up being on many a best end of year list in 2008/2009). Previous titles include her stunning debut, 2001’s La Cienega, along with 2004’s The Holy Girl. Her latest is a period piece based on the novel by Antonio de Benedetto and will be produced by Lita Stantic, El Deseo (the Almodovar Bros’ company), as well as a still to be named French producer. Martel is one of the most prolific names to come out the New Argentinean Wave and this looks to be a massively mounted period piece we’re eager to get a look at.
The Gist: Written in 1956, Zama is an existential novel about Don Diego de Zama, a...
- 1/8/2013
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
Buenos Aires – Clandestine Childhood, Argentina’s Oscar bid for the 2013 Foreign Oscars, was the big winner this week at the Sur Awards, the local Oscars given by the Argentine Film Academy. Armando Bo’s Sundance entry The Last Elvis came in a distant second with six statues, while Pablo Giorgelli’s festival hit and Camera D’Or winner Las Acacias, picked up only two. Benjamin Avila’s coming of age story won 10 of its 16 nominations, sweeping the main awards and leaving no chances for Pablo Trapero’s White Elephant, the other big nominee that went home empty-handed, together with Ana Piterbarg’s
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- 12/8/2012
- by Agustin Mango
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Rating: 2 out of 5 stars
Viggo Mortensen proves another facet of his versatility in Ana Piterbarg’s regrettably glum, plodding drama-thriller Everybody Has A Plan, not only speaking Spanish, but also assuming double duty as he plays twins at each other’s throats in Buenos Aires’ forbidding underbelly. Pedro (Mortensen) is a bee-keeper living in one of the city’s run-down provinces and suffering from poor health. He has grown suspicious of the fellow criminals he associates with, and so goes to visit twin brother Agustín with the hope of catching a break, but finds that his brother has his own set of problems, resulting in one violently explosive act that changes everything.
To say more about the pic’s plot would be giving the game away – though you can probably guess the blackly comic punch-line from the outset – and Piterbarg herself seems equally circumspect as a screenwriter, bathing her bleak...
Viggo Mortensen proves another facet of his versatility in Ana Piterbarg’s regrettably glum, plodding drama-thriller Everybody Has A Plan, not only speaking Spanish, but also assuming double duty as he plays twins at each other’s throats in Buenos Aires’ forbidding underbelly. Pedro (Mortensen) is a bee-keeper living in one of the city’s run-down provinces and suffering from poor health. He has grown suspicious of the fellow criminals he associates with, and so goes to visit twin brother Agustín with the hope of catching a break, but finds that his brother has his own set of problems, resulting in one violently explosive act that changes everything.
To say more about the pic’s plot would be giving the game away – though you can probably guess the blackly comic punch-line from the outset – and Piterbarg herself seems equally circumspect as a screenwriter, bathing her bleak...
- 10/25/2012
- by Shaun Munro
- Obsessed with Film
Best Laid Plans: Piterbarg Gets Double the Mortensen in Debut
Argentinean director Ana Piterbarg nabs Viggo Mortensen for dual roles in her debut, a slow burn identity thriller, Everybody Has a Plan. Mortensen, having appeared in three previous Spanish speaking features, is a fellow countryman of Piterbarg, having spent his childhood in Argentina. The resulting collaboration may be disappointing to some, as this is a simmering, psychological thriller that banks mostly on constant discomfort and a slowly building menace that permeates the narrative, but this only serves to make the film a unique, fascinating, noir-tinged exercise in the swamps.
Agustin (Mortensen) stars as a doctor in Buenos Aires, who we quickly learn is in a floundering marriage with Claudia (Soledad Villamil). They are about to adopt a baby, something that Claudia is apparently passionate about, a plan that has been gestating for some time. But it turns out that...
Argentinean director Ana Piterbarg nabs Viggo Mortensen for dual roles in her debut, a slow burn identity thriller, Everybody Has a Plan. Mortensen, having appeared in three previous Spanish speaking features, is a fellow countryman of Piterbarg, having spent his childhood in Argentina. The resulting collaboration may be disappointing to some, as this is a simmering, psychological thriller that banks mostly on constant discomfort and a slowly building menace that permeates the narrative, but this only serves to make the film a unique, fascinating, noir-tinged exercise in the swamps.
Agustin (Mortensen) stars as a doctor in Buenos Aires, who we quickly learn is in a floundering marriage with Claudia (Soledad Villamil). They are about to adopt a baby, something that Claudia is apparently passionate about, a plan that has been gestating for some time. But it turns out that...
- 9/26/2012
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
If you have been disappointed with 2012′s cinematic output thus far, keep the faith, because I come bearing good news.
The 2012 Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6-16, and with it came premieres and sneak peaks of some of the mostly highly anticipated films releasing in the latter half of 2012. This was my first time at the festival and I have to say, it was an absolute blast. For any cinephiles who have considered attending the festival, I can’t recommend it highly enough. It may have been due to the overall high quality of the film crop, but I can think of few events that would be as enjoyable for film lovers as this year’s Toronto Film Festival was.
I know you don’t care about my own personal experiences though and would rather hear about the movies, so let’s get down to business.
Below is my ranking,...
The 2012 Toronto International Film Festival was held from September 6-16, and with it came premieres and sneak peaks of some of the mostly highly anticipated films releasing in the latter half of 2012. This was my first time at the festival and I have to say, it was an absolute blast. For any cinephiles who have considered attending the festival, I can’t recommend it highly enough. It may have been due to the overall high quality of the film crop, but I can think of few events that would be as enjoyable for film lovers as this year’s Toronto Film Festival was.
I know you don’t care about my own personal experiences though and would rather hear about the movies, so let’s get down to business.
Below is my ranking,...
- 9/25/2012
- by Christopher Lominac
- AreYouScreening.com
This year’s Toronto was competing in my psyche with the recent loss of my mother. My focus was less on finding the greatest of films this year. I hear from others that the festival offered a good mix, if not the most outstanding, selection of films. Personally, I am discovering that a new community has opened its arms to me and the films that are standing out most for me are by women and about women. My community, those women who have lost their mothers, is sharing a unique and profound rite of passage whose meaning continuously unfolds.
In Toronto I was hyper aware of the women and their position in this corner of the world I inhabit. Canadian women, Helga Stephenson, Director Emerita of the Toronto Film Festival, predecessor to Piers Handling; Michele Maheux, Executive Director and COO of Tiff ever since I've known her which has been a long time; Linda Beath who headed United Artists when I was beginning my career and who has since moved to Europe where she teaches at Eave (European Audio Visual Entrepreneurs), Kay Armitrage, programmer of the festival for 24 years and professor at University of Toronto, are all women to helped me envisage myself as a professional in the film business, and they are still as vibrant and active as when we met more than 25 years ago. Carolle Brabant, Telefilm Canada’s Executive Director continues Canada’s female lineage as does Karen Thorne-Stone, the President and CEO of Ontario Media Development Corporation.
18 films currently are in a large part attributable to Omdc; they include Nisha Pahuja’s doc The World Before Her (contact Cinetic) (Best Doc Feature of 2012 Tribeca Ff), Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz (Isa: TF1), Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children (Isa: FilmNation), Anita Doron’s The Lesser Blessed, (Isa: EOne) Ruba Nadda’s Inescapable (Isa: Myriad), Alison Rose’s doc, Following the Wise Men.
Tiff’s new program for year-round support of mid-level Canadian filmmakers, Studio, under the directorship of Hayet Benkara is bringing industry mentorship to 16 filmmakers with experience, shorts in the festival circuit, features in development. Exactly half of these filmmakers are women. This was a conscious move on Hayet’s part. She said there is always such a predominance of males without thinking about it that she decided to bring balance.
Then a look at some more of the Canadian talent here brings me to the Birks Diamonds celebration of seven Canadian women: Anais Barbeau-Lavalette, Manon Briand, Anita Doron, Deepa Mehta (Midnight’s Children), Kate Melville, and Ruba Nadda which honored each with a Birks diamond pendant in a reception hosted by Shangri-La Hotel and Telefilm Canada where 300 guests mingled and caught up with each other. The pre-eminence of women was again made so apparent to me.
Talking to publicist Jim Dobson at Indie PR at the reception of Jordanian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir whose film When I Saw You was so evocative of the 60s, a time of worldwide freedom and even optimism among the fedayeem in Jordan looking to resist the Expulsion of the Palestinians from Palestine; he said that all five of his clients here are women directors, “I had When I Saw You, (Isa: The Match Factory), Satellite Boy (Isa: Celluloid Dreams/ Nightmare), Hannah Arendt (The Match Factory), Inch'allah (Isa: eOne), English Vinglish (Isa: Eros Int')."
Of the 289 features here at Tiff, Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood is trying to zero in on the women directors, so watch her blogs More Women-Directed Films Nab Deals out of Tiff, Tiff Preview: Women Directors to Watch and Tiff Preview: The Female Directing Masters Playing at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival.
Add to this the upcoming Sundance initiative on women directors that Keri Putnam is heading up (more on that later!) and I am feeling heartened by the consciousness of women, directors and otherwise, out there. That is saying a lot since last season in Cannes with the pathetic number of women directors showing up in the festival and sidebars this past spring.
Here is the Female Factor for Tiff 12 which scores an A in my book:
Gala Presentations - 6 out of 20 = c. 30% which is way above the usual 13% which has been the average up until Cannes upended that with its paltry 2%..2 of these were opening night films.
Mira Nair The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Also showed in Venice. Isa: K5. Picked up for U.S. and Canada by IFC. Shola Lynch Free Angela & All Political Prisoners. Isa: Elle Driver Deepa Mehta Midnight’s Children. Isa: FilmNation already sold to Roadshow for Australia/ N.Z., Unikorea for So. Korea, DeaPlaneta for Spain. Ruba Nadda Inescapable. Isa: Myriad. Canada: Alliance. Liz Garbus Love, Marilyn. Isa: StudioCanal. HBO picked up No. American TV rights. Madman has Australia. Gauri Shinde English Vinglish. Isa: Eros International.
Masters – 0 – Could we say that women directors have not been around that long or shown such longevity as the men? Lina Wertmiller was a long time ago. I don’t even know if she is still alive. Ida Lupino was an anomaly. Who else was there in those early days? Alice Guy-Blaché ?
Special Presentations - 13 out of 70 = 19%
Everybody Has A Plan - Argentina/ Germany/ Spain - Ana Piterbarg - Isa: Twentieth Century Fox International - U.S.: Ld Entertainment, U.K.: Metrodome Lines Of Wellington - Also in Venice, San Sebastian Ff - Portugal - Valeria Sarmiento - Isa: Alfama Films. Germany: Ksm Cloud Atlas--Germany - Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski - Isa: Focus Int'l. - U.S. and Canada: Warner Bros. , Brazil - Imagem, Finland - Future Film, Eastern Europe - Eeap, Germany X Verleih, Greece - Odeon, Iceland - Sensa, India - PVR, So. Korea - Bloomage, Benelux - Benelux Film Distributors, Inspire, Slovenia - Cenemania, Sweden - Noble, Switzerland - Ascot Elite, Taiwan - Long Shong, Turkey - Chantier Inch'allah – Canada - Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette - Isa and Canada: Entertainment One Films Hannah Arendt – Germany – Margarethe von Trotta – Isa: The Match Factory Imogine – U.S. – Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini - Isa: Voltage. U.S.: Lionsgate/ Roadside Attractions acquired from UTA, Netherlands: Independent Ginger and Rosa – U.K. – Sally Potter – Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. contact Cinetic Love is All You Need – Also played in Venice) Denmark – Susanne Bier – Isa: TrustNordisk - U.S. : Sony Pictures Classics, Canada: Mongrel, Australia - Madman, Brazil - Art Films, Bulgaria - Pro Films, Colombia - Babilla Cine, Czech Republic - Aerofilms, Finland - Matila Rohr Nordisk, Germany - Prokino, Hungary - Cirko, Italy - Teodora, Japan - Longride, Poland - Gutek, Portugal - Pepperview Lore – Australia/ Germany/ U.K. – Cate Shortland – Isa: Memento. U.S.: Music Box, France: Memento, Germany - Piffl, Hong Hong - Encore Inlight, So. Korea - Line Tree, Benelux - ABC/ Cinemien, U.K., Artificial Eye Dreams for Sale – Japan – Miwa Nishkawa – Isa: Asmik Ace Stories We Tell – Canada – Sarah Polley - Isa: Nfb. U.K.: Artificial Eye Liverpool – Canada – Marion Briand - Isa: Max Films. Canada: Remstar Venus and Serena – U.S./ U.K. – Michelle Major, Maikin Baird. Producer's Rep: Cinetic
Mavericks - 3 out of 7 “Conversations With” were with women (43%)
Discovery 11 out of 27 = 40% which includes The-Hottest-Public Ticket for the Israeli Film directly below (a Major Buzz Film Among its Public)
Fill the Void by Rama Burshtein, a first-time-ever Hasidic woman director Kate Melville’s Picture Day Alice Winocour Augustine - Isa: Kinology 7 Cajas by Tana Schembori from Paraguay - Isa: Shoreline Gabriela Pichler’s Eat Sleep Die from Sweden, Serbia and Croatia - Isa: Yellow Affair Oy Rola Nashef’s Detroit Unleaded France’s Sylive Michel’s Our Little Differences Contact producer Pallas Film Russian censored film Clip from Serbia by Maja Milos - Isa: Wide sold to Kmbo for France, Maywin for Sweden, Artspoitation for U.S. Satellite Boy by Australian Catriona McKenzie - Isa: Celluloid Dreams/ Nightmares Ramaa Mosley’s The Brass Teapot - Isa: TF1 sold to Magnolia for U.S., Intercontinental for Hong Kong, Cien for Mexico, Vendetta for New Zealand Veteran Korean-American Grace Lee’s Janeane from Des Moines.
Tiff Docs 7 out of 29 = 24% - Women traditionally have directed a greater portion of docs
Christine Cynn (codirector ) The Act of Killing - Isa: Cinephil Janet Tobias No Place on Earth - Isa: Global Screen Sarah Burns (codirector) The Central Park Five Isa: PBS sold to Sundance Select for U.S. Treva Wurmfeld Shepard & Dark - Contact Tangerine Entertainment Nina Davenport First Comes Love - Contact producer Marina Zenovich Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out - Isa: Films Distribution Halla Alabdalla As If We Were Catching a Cobra (Comme si nous attraptions un cobra) about the art of caricature in Egypt and Syria! Halla is Syrian herself, studied science and sociology in Syria and Paris - Isa: Wide
Contemporary World Cinema 11 out of 61 = 18%
Children of Sarajevo by Aida Begic, Sarajevo - Isa: Pyramide Baby Blues by Katarzyna Rostaniec, Poland. Contact producer The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky by Yuki Tanada, Japan - Isa: Toei Comrade Kim Goes Flying by Anja Daelemans (co-director), Belgium/ No. Korea. The first western financed film out of No. Korea Three Worlds by Catherine Corsini, France - Isa: Pyramide sold to Lumiere for Benelux, Pathe for Switzerland Middle of Nowhere by Ava DuVernay, U.S. - Contact Paradigm Talent Agency The Lesser Blessed by Anita Doron, Canada - Isa: eOne Watchtower by Pelin Esmer, Turkey/ France/ Germany- Isa: Visit Films Jackie by Antoinette Beumer, Netherlands - Isa: Media Luna When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir, Palestine,/ Jordan/ Greece All that Matters is Past by Sara Johnsen, Norway- Isa: TrustNordisk
Tiff Kids 0 out of 5. Any meaning to this???
City To City – Mumbai 0 Out Of 10 Any meaning to this???
Vanguard 2 out of 15 = 13% (the average for most festivals)
90 Minutes– Norway – Eva Sorhaug - Isa: Level K Peaches Does Herself – Germany - Peaches. Contact producer. See Indiewire review.
Midnight Madness 0 out of 9 which is fine with me, thank you. This is a boy's genre or a date-night genre for girls and boys with a plan for the night.
In Toronto I was hyper aware of the women and their position in this corner of the world I inhabit. Canadian women, Helga Stephenson, Director Emerita of the Toronto Film Festival, predecessor to Piers Handling; Michele Maheux, Executive Director and COO of Tiff ever since I've known her which has been a long time; Linda Beath who headed United Artists when I was beginning my career and who has since moved to Europe where she teaches at Eave (European Audio Visual Entrepreneurs), Kay Armitrage, programmer of the festival for 24 years and professor at University of Toronto, are all women to helped me envisage myself as a professional in the film business, and they are still as vibrant and active as when we met more than 25 years ago. Carolle Brabant, Telefilm Canada’s Executive Director continues Canada’s female lineage as does Karen Thorne-Stone, the President and CEO of Ontario Media Development Corporation.
18 films currently are in a large part attributable to Omdc; they include Nisha Pahuja’s doc The World Before Her (contact Cinetic) (Best Doc Feature of 2012 Tribeca Ff), Sarah Polley’s Take This Waltz (Isa: TF1), Deepa Mehta’s Midnight’s Children (Isa: FilmNation), Anita Doron’s The Lesser Blessed, (Isa: EOne) Ruba Nadda’s Inescapable (Isa: Myriad), Alison Rose’s doc, Following the Wise Men.
Tiff’s new program for year-round support of mid-level Canadian filmmakers, Studio, under the directorship of Hayet Benkara is bringing industry mentorship to 16 filmmakers with experience, shorts in the festival circuit, features in development. Exactly half of these filmmakers are women. This was a conscious move on Hayet’s part. She said there is always such a predominance of males without thinking about it that she decided to bring balance.
Then a look at some more of the Canadian talent here brings me to the Birks Diamonds celebration of seven Canadian women: Anais Barbeau-Lavalette, Manon Briand, Anita Doron, Deepa Mehta (Midnight’s Children), Kate Melville, and Ruba Nadda which honored each with a Birks diamond pendant in a reception hosted by Shangri-La Hotel and Telefilm Canada where 300 guests mingled and caught up with each other. The pre-eminence of women was again made so apparent to me.
Talking to publicist Jim Dobson at Indie PR at the reception of Jordanian filmmaker Annemarie Jacir whose film When I Saw You was so evocative of the 60s, a time of worldwide freedom and even optimism among the fedayeem in Jordan looking to resist the Expulsion of the Palestinians from Palestine; he said that all five of his clients here are women directors, “I had When I Saw You, (Isa: The Match Factory), Satellite Boy (Isa: Celluloid Dreams/ Nightmare), Hannah Arendt (The Match Factory), Inch'allah (Isa: eOne), English Vinglish (Isa: Eros Int')."
Of the 289 features here at Tiff, Melissa Silverstein at Women and Hollywood is trying to zero in on the women directors, so watch her blogs More Women-Directed Films Nab Deals out of Tiff, Tiff Preview: Women Directors to Watch and Tiff Preview: The Female Directing Masters Playing at the 2012 Toronto Film Festival.
Add to this the upcoming Sundance initiative on women directors that Keri Putnam is heading up (more on that later!) and I am feeling heartened by the consciousness of women, directors and otherwise, out there. That is saying a lot since last season in Cannes with the pathetic number of women directors showing up in the festival and sidebars this past spring.
Here is the Female Factor for Tiff 12 which scores an A in my book:
Gala Presentations - 6 out of 20 = c. 30% which is way above the usual 13% which has been the average up until Cannes upended that with its paltry 2%..2 of these were opening night films.
Mira Nair The Reluctant Fundamentalist - Also showed in Venice. Isa: K5. Picked up for U.S. and Canada by IFC. Shola Lynch Free Angela & All Political Prisoners. Isa: Elle Driver Deepa Mehta Midnight’s Children. Isa: FilmNation already sold to Roadshow for Australia/ N.Z., Unikorea for So. Korea, DeaPlaneta for Spain. Ruba Nadda Inescapable. Isa: Myriad. Canada: Alliance. Liz Garbus Love, Marilyn. Isa: StudioCanal. HBO picked up No. American TV rights. Madman has Australia. Gauri Shinde English Vinglish. Isa: Eros International.
Masters – 0 – Could we say that women directors have not been around that long or shown such longevity as the men? Lina Wertmiller was a long time ago. I don’t even know if she is still alive. Ida Lupino was an anomaly. Who else was there in those early days? Alice Guy-Blaché ?
Special Presentations - 13 out of 70 = 19%
Everybody Has A Plan - Argentina/ Germany/ Spain - Ana Piterbarg - Isa: Twentieth Century Fox International - U.S.: Ld Entertainment, U.K.: Metrodome Lines Of Wellington - Also in Venice, San Sebastian Ff - Portugal - Valeria Sarmiento - Isa: Alfama Films. Germany: Ksm Cloud Atlas--Germany - Lana Wachowski, Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski - Isa: Focus Int'l. - U.S. and Canada: Warner Bros. , Brazil - Imagem, Finland - Future Film, Eastern Europe - Eeap, Germany X Verleih, Greece - Odeon, Iceland - Sensa, India - PVR, So. Korea - Bloomage, Benelux - Benelux Film Distributors, Inspire, Slovenia - Cenemania, Sweden - Noble, Switzerland - Ascot Elite, Taiwan - Long Shong, Turkey - Chantier Inch'allah – Canada - Anaïs Barbeau-Lavalette - Isa and Canada: Entertainment One Films Hannah Arendt – Germany – Margarethe von Trotta – Isa: The Match Factory Imogine – U.S. – Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini - Isa: Voltage. U.S.: Lionsgate/ Roadside Attractions acquired from UTA, Netherlands: Independent Ginger and Rosa – U.K. – Sally Potter – Isa: The Match Factory. U.S. contact Cinetic Love is All You Need – Also played in Venice) Denmark – Susanne Bier – Isa: TrustNordisk - U.S. : Sony Pictures Classics, Canada: Mongrel, Australia - Madman, Brazil - Art Films, Bulgaria - Pro Films, Colombia - Babilla Cine, Czech Republic - Aerofilms, Finland - Matila Rohr Nordisk, Germany - Prokino, Hungary - Cirko, Italy - Teodora, Japan - Longride, Poland - Gutek, Portugal - Pepperview Lore – Australia/ Germany/ U.K. – Cate Shortland – Isa: Memento. U.S.: Music Box, France: Memento, Germany - Piffl, Hong Hong - Encore Inlight, So. Korea - Line Tree, Benelux - ABC/ Cinemien, U.K., Artificial Eye Dreams for Sale – Japan – Miwa Nishkawa – Isa: Asmik Ace Stories We Tell – Canada – Sarah Polley - Isa: Nfb. U.K.: Artificial Eye Liverpool – Canada – Marion Briand - Isa: Max Films. Canada: Remstar Venus and Serena – U.S./ U.K. – Michelle Major, Maikin Baird. Producer's Rep: Cinetic
Mavericks - 3 out of 7 “Conversations With” were with women (43%)
Discovery 11 out of 27 = 40% which includes The-Hottest-Public Ticket for the Israeli Film directly below (a Major Buzz Film Among its Public)
Fill the Void by Rama Burshtein, a first-time-ever Hasidic woman director Kate Melville’s Picture Day Alice Winocour Augustine - Isa: Kinology 7 Cajas by Tana Schembori from Paraguay - Isa: Shoreline Gabriela Pichler’s Eat Sleep Die from Sweden, Serbia and Croatia - Isa: Yellow Affair Oy Rola Nashef’s Detroit Unleaded France’s Sylive Michel’s Our Little Differences Contact producer Pallas Film Russian censored film Clip from Serbia by Maja Milos - Isa: Wide sold to Kmbo for France, Maywin for Sweden, Artspoitation for U.S. Satellite Boy by Australian Catriona McKenzie - Isa: Celluloid Dreams/ Nightmares Ramaa Mosley’s The Brass Teapot - Isa: TF1 sold to Magnolia for U.S., Intercontinental for Hong Kong, Cien for Mexico, Vendetta for New Zealand Veteran Korean-American Grace Lee’s Janeane from Des Moines.
Tiff Docs 7 out of 29 = 24% - Women traditionally have directed a greater portion of docs
Christine Cynn (codirector ) The Act of Killing - Isa: Cinephil Janet Tobias No Place on Earth - Isa: Global Screen Sarah Burns (codirector) The Central Park Five Isa: PBS sold to Sundance Select for U.S. Treva Wurmfeld Shepard & Dark - Contact Tangerine Entertainment Nina Davenport First Comes Love - Contact producer Marina Zenovich Roman Polanski: Odd Man Out - Isa: Films Distribution Halla Alabdalla As If We Were Catching a Cobra (Comme si nous attraptions un cobra) about the art of caricature in Egypt and Syria! Halla is Syrian herself, studied science and sociology in Syria and Paris - Isa: Wide
Contemporary World Cinema 11 out of 61 = 18%
Children of Sarajevo by Aida Begic, Sarajevo - Isa: Pyramide Baby Blues by Katarzyna Rostaniec, Poland. Contact producer The Cowards Who Looked to the Sky by Yuki Tanada, Japan - Isa: Toei Comrade Kim Goes Flying by Anja Daelemans (co-director), Belgium/ No. Korea. The first western financed film out of No. Korea Three Worlds by Catherine Corsini, France - Isa: Pyramide sold to Lumiere for Benelux, Pathe for Switzerland Middle of Nowhere by Ava DuVernay, U.S. - Contact Paradigm Talent Agency The Lesser Blessed by Anita Doron, Canada - Isa: eOne Watchtower by Pelin Esmer, Turkey/ France/ Germany- Isa: Visit Films Jackie by Antoinette Beumer, Netherlands - Isa: Media Luna When I Saw You by Annemarie Jacir, Palestine,/ Jordan/ Greece All that Matters is Past by Sara Johnsen, Norway- Isa: TrustNordisk
Tiff Kids 0 out of 5. Any meaning to this???
City To City – Mumbai 0 Out Of 10 Any meaning to this???
Vanguard 2 out of 15 = 13% (the average for most festivals)
90 Minutes– Norway – Eva Sorhaug - Isa: Level K Peaches Does Herself – Germany - Peaches. Contact producer. See Indiewire review.
Midnight Madness 0 out of 9 which is fine with me, thank you. This is a boy's genre or a date-night genre for girls and boys with a plan for the night.
- 9/21/2012
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Ricky D
Biggest Discovery:
My biggest discovery came the morning of the very last day, Sunday September 16th when I missed my screening to my most anticipated film, Michael Heneke’s Amour, because for some strange reason, Toronto is the only major metropolitan in the world whose subway stations only open at 9:00 am – the exact same time my film screened. Wtf, yo?
As far as films go, I’d have to sadly say I don’t have a major discovery. Perhaps I spend too much time online following the latest news and updates from the world of cinema, but there was not one film I saw that I didn’t already know nothing of.
Biggest Waste Of Time:
What was the worst and most embarrassing aspect of Tiff 2012 was that awful excuse for a L’Oreal bumper, an advertisement so bad, so inept, so unbelievably painful, it’s almost...
Biggest Discovery:
My biggest discovery came the morning of the very last day, Sunday September 16th when I missed my screening to my most anticipated film, Michael Heneke’s Amour, because for some strange reason, Toronto is the only major metropolitan in the world whose subway stations only open at 9:00 am – the exact same time my film screened. Wtf, yo?
As far as films go, I’d have to sadly say I don’t have a major discovery. Perhaps I spend too much time online following the latest news and updates from the world of cinema, but there was not one film I saw that I didn’t already know nothing of.
Biggest Waste Of Time:
What was the worst and most embarrassing aspect of Tiff 2012 was that awful excuse for a L’Oreal bumper, an advertisement so bad, so inept, so unbelievably painful, it’s almost...
- 9/18/2012
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
It’s been two years since since it was revealed that the notoriously picky Viggo Mortensen would lead Ana Piterbarg’s directorial debut, the Argentinian-made, Spanish-language “Everybody Has A Plan,” in dual roles as the identical twins Pedro and Agustin. After many stills and a non-subtitled Spanish language trailer, naturally, we finally have a North American trailer complete with English subtitles. Okay, so it’s pretty much exactly the same as the previously released trailer, just with English translations, but now many of you non-Spanish speakers will understand it now? The plot seems fairly straightforward -- one twin has a crime-ridden past while the other is bored with his bourgeois life, and the two switch to disastrous consequences. It's like an arthouse version of "Sister Sister." We’re really excited by the fact that an actor like Mortensen would take on a completely foreign-language role, especially two...
- 9/13/2012
- by Cain Rodriguez
- The Playlist
Everyone Has a Plan Trailer. Ana Piterbarg‘s Everyone Has a Plan (2012) movie trailer stars Viggo Mortensen, Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino, and Sofía Gala. Everyone Has a Plan‘s plot synopsis: “Mortensen plays Augustin, a disillusioned man living in Buenos Aires. Upon the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Augustin sees the perfect chance to [...]
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- 9/12/2012
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
There’s a new trailer for Everybody Has A Plan, which you can see below
The film stars Viggo Mortensen with Soledad Villamil and Daniel Fanego.
The synopsis:
Everybody Has A Plan tells the story of Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon what for him has become, after years of living in Buenos Aires, a very frustrating existence. After the death of his twin brother, Pedro, Agustín decides to start a new life, adopting the identity of his brother and returning to the mysterious region of the Delta, in the Tigre, where they lived when they were boys. However, shortly after his return, Agustín will find himself unwillingly involved in the dangerous criminal world that was a part of his brother’s life.
Ana Piterbarg is directing from a script she wrote with Ana Cohan.
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Source: TCFInternational...
The film stars Viggo Mortensen with Soledad Villamil and Daniel Fanego.
The synopsis:
Everybody Has A Plan tells the story of Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon what for him has become, after years of living in Buenos Aires, a very frustrating existence. After the death of his twin brother, Pedro, Agustín decides to start a new life, adopting the identity of his brother and returning to the mysterious region of the Delta, in the Tigre, where they lived when they were boys. However, shortly after his return, Agustín will find himself unwillingly involved in the dangerous criminal world that was a part of his brother’s life.
Ana Piterbarg is directing from a script she wrote with Ana Cohan.
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Source: TCFInternational...
- 9/12/2012
- by Philip Sticco
- LRMonline.com
Viggo Mortensen works primarily on English-language movies, but he's very fluent in Danish and Spanish. His latest non-English film is "Everyone Has a Plan," a Spanish thriller written and directed by Ana Piterbarg. We recently showed you Spanish trailer for it, and today we have the domestic version. Check it out below. Plot: The story revolves around Augustin (Mortensen), a disillusioned man living in Buenos Aires. Upon the death of his identical twin brother Pedro (Mortensen), Augustin sees the perfect chance to start over. He assumes his dead brother's identity and goes to live in the Tigre Delta region of Argentina where the brothers spent their childhood. But Augustin has no idea of Pedro's past involvement in the criminal underworld, and finds himself inheriting a dangerous and corrupt life that he thought would bring him fulfillment. A Us release date for "Everyone Has a Plan" has yet to be set.
- 9/12/2012
- WorstPreviews.com
Be careful what you wish for — especially if there's two of you.
Viggo Mortensen and Viggo Mortensen star in "Everybody Has a Plan," a Spanish-language thriller directed by Ana Piterbarg that looks like a contemporary (and crime-ridden) twist of sorts on the age-old fable of "The Prince and the Pauper."
Viggo plays a man who is unhappy enough with what should be a very happy life (beautiful wife, cute kids, good job) to fake his own death and assume the identity of his twin brother (yep, Viggo again). His self-inflicted "second chance" becomes complicated, however, when he inevitably becomes embroidered in his brother's criminal connections.
The film looks a bit heavy-handed with the symbolism (not only do we see a buzzing beehive, someone mentions it later on, too), but a class act like Viggo makes almost anything he's involved in an automatic must-see. If nothing else, this looks like quite...
Viggo Mortensen and Viggo Mortensen star in "Everybody Has a Plan," a Spanish-language thriller directed by Ana Piterbarg that looks like a contemporary (and crime-ridden) twist of sorts on the age-old fable of "The Prince and the Pauper."
Viggo plays a man who is unhappy enough with what should be a very happy life (beautiful wife, cute kids, good job) to fake his own death and assume the identity of his twin brother (yep, Viggo again). His self-inflicted "second chance" becomes complicated, however, when he inevitably becomes embroidered in his brother's criminal connections.
The film looks a bit heavy-handed with the symbolism (not only do we see a buzzing beehive, someone mentions it later on, too), but a class act like Viggo makes almost anything he's involved in an automatic must-see. If nothing else, this looks like quite...
- 9/12/2012
- by Bryan Enk
- NextMovie
Viggo Mortensen clearly has many talents as an actor, but one you may not know about is his linguistic skills. The star is fluent in English, Spanish, Danish, and French, and can speak some Swedish and Norwegian (and we've all seen him talk in Elvish too). As one could expect, these languages could give him an edge in terms of his ability to stretch his performance, and it has paid off with the movie Everybody Has A Plan. Written and directed by Ana Piterbarg, the new movie is set in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and not only features Mortensen speaking a foreign language, but also playing dual roles. The first trailer for the movie has been released by 20th Century Fox International and you can watch the preview below. The story follows a man named Agustín (Mortensen), who has grown tired of and frustrated with his life. When his twin ...
- 9/11/2012
- cinemablend.com
Some sad news came earlier this summer as David Cronenberg said the gestating sequel to Eastern Promises with Viggo Mortensen probably wouldn't happen. However, we can still look forward to seeing Mortensen show up in On the Road, and now the trailer for Everybody Has a Plan, an Argentinian film featuring the actor in dual roles, has arrived. Mortensen plays a man looking to start a new life after his twin brother passes away. The only way to do that is to assume his brothers identity and return to mysterious region of the Delta, in the Tigre, where they lived when they were boys. But there's danger waiting along with the memories he has of his boyhood home. It definitely looks like a truly original film. Watch below! First trailer for Ana Piterbarg's Everybody Has a Plan from Tfc International (via ComingSoon): Everybody Has a Plan follows Agustín...
- 9/11/2012
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Here's the trailer for a crime drama called Everyobody Has A Plan, in which Viggo Mortensen plays two different characters. This looks like it will be an awesome thriller, and Mortensen is sure to give yet another amazing performance.
The movie tells the story of Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon what for him has become, after years of living in Buenos Aires, a very frustrating existence. After the death of his twin brother, Pedro, Agustín decides to start a new life, adopting the identity of his brother and returning to the mysterious region of the Delta, in the Tigre, where they lived when they were boys. However, shortly after his return, Agustín will find himself unwillingly involved in the dangerous criminal world that was a part of his brother's life.
The film was written and directed by Ana Piterbarg, and also stars Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino and Sofía Gala Castaglione.
The movie tells the story of Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon what for him has become, after years of living in Buenos Aires, a very frustrating existence. After the death of his twin brother, Pedro, Agustín decides to start a new life, adopting the identity of his brother and returning to the mysterious region of the Delta, in the Tigre, where they lived when they were boys. However, shortly after his return, Agustín will find himself unwillingly involved in the dangerous criminal world that was a part of his brother's life.
The film was written and directed by Ana Piterbarg, and also stars Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino and Sofía Gala Castaglione.
- 9/11/2012
- by Joey Paur
- GeekTyrant
The trailer for the upcoming crime drama Everybody Has a Plan is now online and you can check out in the player below, courtesy of Tfc International . Written and directed by Ana Piterbarg, Everybody Has a Plan stars Viggo Mortensen (in two roles), Soledad Villamil, Daniel Fanego, Javier Godino and Sofía Gala Castaglione. The film tells the story of Agustín (Mortensen), a man desperate to abandon what for him has become, after years of living in Buenos Aires, a very frustrating existence. After the death of his twin brother, Pedro, Agustín decides to start a new life, adopting the identity of his brother and returning to the mysterious region of the Delta, in the Tigre, where they lived when they were boys. However, shortly after his return, Agustín will find himself...
- 9/11/2012
- Comingsoon.net
There’s no denying Viggo Mortensen’s total intensity and rawness as an actor, in The Road, The Lord of the Rings, and as a muse in David Cronenberg’s A History of Violence, Eastern Promises, and last year’s A Dangerous Method. In Everybody Has A Plan, his fourth Spanish-language film (who knew?), helmed by Argentinean first-time feature writer-director Ana Piterbarg, the handsome blue-eyed actor wraps his arms around a dark, gritty role worthy of Cronenberg: identical twins. The movie just premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival.
“We had a fantastic screening,” said Mortensen on Sunday, his longish,...
“We had a fantastic screening,” said Mortensen on Sunday, his longish,...
- 9/10/2012
- by Solvej Schou
- EW - Inside Movies
Everybody Has a Plan
Written by Ana Piterbarg
Directed by Ana Piterbarg
Argentina/Spain/Germany, 2012
For her country’s first screened entry in the Toronto International Film Festival, Ana Piterbarg’s long-gestating Everybody Has a Plan sees Viggo Mortensen’s latest return to Spanish language film, this time in a dual role as brothers who have adopted opposite lifestyles. Agustín is a successful yet dissatisfied doctor who assumes the identity of identical twin Pedro, the socially reputable but shadily associated beekeeper. Tensions intend to run high as the new Pedro haphazardly conceals the secrets of his identity while learning first-hand his sibling’s own secrets.
The endearingly modest Mortensen – who was apparently approached for the role based on the pure coincidence of he and Piterbarg’s laundry schedule – introduced the film, stating it did not seem to him the work of a first-time filmmaker. This may be an acceptable observation...
Written by Ana Piterbarg
Directed by Ana Piterbarg
Argentina/Spain/Germany, 2012
For her country’s first screened entry in the Toronto International Film Festival, Ana Piterbarg’s long-gestating Everybody Has a Plan sees Viggo Mortensen’s latest return to Spanish language film, this time in a dual role as brothers who have adopted opposite lifestyles. Agustín is a successful yet dissatisfied doctor who assumes the identity of identical twin Pedro, the socially reputable but shadily associated beekeeper. Tensions intend to run high as the new Pedro haphazardly conceals the secrets of his identity while learning first-hand his sibling’s own secrets.
The endearingly modest Mortensen – who was apparently approached for the role based on the pure coincidence of he and Piterbarg’s laundry schedule – introduced the film, stating it did not seem to him the work of a first-time filmmaker. This may be an acceptable observation...
- 9/9/2012
- by Tom Stoup
- SoundOnSight
As if performing in a foreign language isn't enough of a challenge, Ana Piterbarg's Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan features Viggo Mortensen playing not one but two roles entirely in Spanish. It's a casting choice from Piterbarg that - if it had failed - would amount to nothing more than a flashy stunt but Mortensen delivers a tour de force performance and though the film has some obvious flaws Piterbarg demonstrates that she has plenty of skills to bring to the table herself.Mortensen plays identical twin brothers Agustin and Pedro, brothers who - despite their physical similarity - could not possibly be more different. Agustin lives a comfortable life in Buenos Aries, a doctor with a beautiful wife and a world of possibility open...
- 9/9/2012
- Screen Anarchy
As if performing in a foreign language isn't enough of a challenge, Ana Piterbarg's Argentinian thriller Everybody Has A Plan features Viggo Mortensen playing not one but two roles entirely in Spanish. It's a casting choice from Piterbarg that - if it had failed - would amount to nothing more than a flashy stunt but Mortensen delivers a tour de force performance and though the film has some obvious flaws Piterbarg demonstrates that she has plenty of skills to bring to the table herself.Mortensen plays identical twin brothers Agustin and Pedro, brothers who - despite their physical similarity - could not possibly be more different. Agustin lives a comfortable life in Buenos Aries, a doctor with a beautiful wife and a world of possibility...
- 9/9/2012
- Screen Anarchy
Above: Ernie Gehr's Auto-Collider Xv.
The vast bulk of Tiff's 2012 has been announced and listed here, below. We'll be updating the lineup with the previous films announced, as well as updating links to specific films for more information on them in the coming days. Of particular note is that the Wavelengths and Visions programs have been combined to create what is undoubtedly the most interesting section of the festival. Stay tuned, too, for our own on the ground coverage of Tiff.
Galas
A Royal Affair (Nikolai Arcel, Demark/Sweden/Czech Republic/Germany)
Argo (Ben Affleck, USA)
The Company You Keep (Robert Redford, USA)
Dangerous Liaisons (Hur Jin-ho, China)
Emperor (Peter Webber, Japan/USA)
English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde, India)
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch)
Great Expectations (Mike Newell, UK)
Hyde Park on Hudson (Roger Michell, UK)
Inescapable (Ruba Nadda, Canada)
Jayne Mansfield's Car (Billy Bob Thorton, USA/Russia)
Looper (Rian Johnson,...
The vast bulk of Tiff's 2012 has been announced and listed here, below. We'll be updating the lineup with the previous films announced, as well as updating links to specific films for more information on them in the coming days. Of particular note is that the Wavelengths and Visions programs have been combined to create what is undoubtedly the most interesting section of the festival. Stay tuned, too, for our own on the ground coverage of Tiff.
Galas
A Royal Affair (Nikolai Arcel, Demark/Sweden/Czech Republic/Germany)
Argo (Ben Affleck, USA)
The Company You Keep (Robert Redford, USA)
Dangerous Liaisons (Hur Jin-ho, China)
Emperor (Peter Webber, Japan/USA)
English Vinglish (Gauri Shinde, India)
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners (Shola Lynch)
Great Expectations (Mike Newell, UK)
Hyde Park on Hudson (Roger Michell, UK)
Inescapable (Ruba Nadda, Canada)
Jayne Mansfield's Car (Billy Bob Thorton, USA/Russia)
Looper (Rian Johnson,...
- 8/22/2012
- MUBI
The 37th Toronto International Film Festival® will roll out the red carpet for hundreds of guests from the four corners of the globe in September. Filmmakers expected to present their world premieres in Toronto include: Rian Johnson, Noah Baumbach, Deepa Mehta, Derek Cianfrance, Sion Sono, Joss Whedon, Neil Jordan, Lu Chuan, Shola Lynch, Barry Levinson, Yvan Attal, Ben Affleck, Marina Zenovich, Costa-Gavras, Laurent Cantet, Sally Potter, Dustin Hoffman, Francois Ozon, David O. Russell, David Ayer, Pelin Esmer, Tom Tykwer, Lana Wachowski, Andy Wachowski, Andrew Adamson, Michael McGowan, Bahman Ghobadi, Ziad Doueiri, Alex Gibney, Stephen Chbosky, Eran Riklis, Edward Burns, Bernard Émond, Zhang Yuan, Michael Winterbottom, Mike Newell, Miwa Nishikawa, Margarethe Von Trotta, David Siegel, Scott McGehee, Gauri Shinde, Goran Paskaljevic, Baltasar Kormákur, J.A. Bayona, Rob Zombie, Peaches and Paul Andrew Williams.
Actors expected to attend include: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Chan, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Bill Murray, Robert Redford,...
Actors expected to attend include: Bruce Willis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Jackie Chan, Tom Hanks, Halle Berry, Bill Murray, Robert Redford,...
- 8/21/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
I now have to accept the fact there will be several films showing at the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival that I simply won't be able to see. I have gone to Cannes three straight years and this will be my third year in Toronto and of the six festivals I've never seen a line-up packed with so many highly anticipated films and today the fest added even more. Sending out the complete line-up today the fest has added three films to their Galas selection and 18 Special Presentations along with several Contemporary World Cinema selections, the latter of which includes James Ponsoldt's Smashed which is said to feature a performance from Mary Elizabeth Winstead that may be up for Oscar consideration. The announcement confirmed Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master will be part of the Special Presentations selection as will Brian De Palma's Passion, a remake of Love Crime...
- 8/14/2012
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
Toronto – On July 24th, Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director, unveiled some of the films that will headline the 37th Toronto International Film Festival.
According to Bailey, Tiff 2012 will include the “most diverse Gala programme to date with films from Japan, China, India, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, USA and Canada”.
Handling describes this year’s festival as looking “particularly strong” with a wide variety of work from “established and emerging filmmakers.”
Toronto audiences will be first in line to see many “exciting and prestigious films” with further announcements slated in the coming weeks. Until then, here is a sample of what you can expect to see:
Looper (Opening Night film, World Premiere)
Rian Johnson, USA
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Jeff Daniels
Directed by Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom), Looper is a futuristic action thriller set in a...
According to Bailey, Tiff 2012 will include the “most diverse Gala programme to date with films from Japan, China, India, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, USA and Canada”.
Handling describes this year’s festival as looking “particularly strong” with a wide variety of work from “established and emerging filmmakers.”
Toronto audiences will be first in line to see many “exciting and prestigious films” with further announcements slated in the coming weeks. Until then, here is a sample of what you can expect to see:
Looper (Opening Night film, World Premiere)
Rian Johnson, USA
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Jeff Daniels
Directed by Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom), Looper is a futuristic action thriller set in a...
- 8/1/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Toronto – On July 24th, Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director, unveiled some of the films that will headline the 37th Toronto International Film Festival.
According to Bailey, Tiff 2012 will include the “most diverse Gala programme to date with films from Japan, China, India, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, USA and Canada”.
Handling describes this year’s festival as looking “particularly strong” with a wide variety of work from “established and emerging filmmakers.”
Toronto audiences will be first in line to see many “exciting and prestigious films” with further announcements slated in the coming weeks. Until then, here is a sample of what you can expect to see:
Looper (Opening Night film, World Premiere)
Rian Johnson, USA
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Jeff Daniels
Directed by Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom), Looper is a futuristic action thriller set in a...
According to Bailey, Tiff 2012 will include the “most diverse Gala programme to date with films from Japan, China, India, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, USA and Canada”.
Handling describes this year’s festival as looking “particularly strong” with a wide variety of work from “established and emerging filmmakers.”
Toronto audiences will be first in line to see many “exciting and prestigious films” with further announcements slated in the coming weeks. Until then, here is a sample of what you can expect to see:
Looper (Opening Night film, World Premiere)
Rian Johnson, USA
Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Bruce Willis, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano, Jeff Daniels
Directed by Rian Johnson (Brick, The Brothers Bloom), Looper is a futuristic action thriller set in a...
- 7/25/2012
- by Justin Li
- SoundOnSight
Jayne Mansfield.s Car
Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, made the first announcement of films to premiere at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. Films announced include titles in the Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The announced films include 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations, including 38 world premieres.
Toronto audiences will be the first to see the world premieres of films from directors Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Maiken Baird, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Stuart Blumberg, Josh Boone, Laurent Cantet, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Lu Chuan, Derek Cianfrance, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Costa-Gavras, Ziad Doueiri, Liz Garbus, Dustin Hoffman, Rian Johnson, Neil Jordan, Baltasar Kormákur, Shola Lynch, Deepa Mehta, Roger Michell, Nishikawa Miwa, Ruba Nadda, Mike Newell, François Ozon, Sally Potter, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, Eran Riklis, David O. Russell, Gauri Shinde, Ben Timlett & Bill Jones & Jeff Simpson, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski,...
Piers Handling, CEO and Director of Tiff, and Cameron Bailey, Artistic Director of the Toronto International Film Festival, made the first announcement of films to premiere at the 37th Toronto International Film Festival. Films announced include titles in the Galas and Special Presentations programmes. The announced films include 17 Galas and 45 Special Presentations, including 38 world premieres.
Toronto audiences will be the first to see the world premieres of films from directors Andrew Adamson, Ben Affleck, David Ayer, Maiken Baird, Noah Baumbach, J.A. Bayona, Stuart Blumberg, Josh Boone, Laurent Cantet, Sergio Castellitto, Stephen Chbosky, Lu Chuan, Derek Cianfrance, Nenad Cicin-Sain, Costa-Gavras, Ziad Doueiri, Liz Garbus, Dustin Hoffman, Rian Johnson, Neil Jordan, Baltasar Kormákur, Shola Lynch, Deepa Mehta, Roger Michell, Nishikawa Miwa, Ruba Nadda, Mike Newell, François Ozon, Sally Potter, Robert Pulcini & Shari Springer Berman, Eran Riklis, David O. Russell, Gauri Shinde, Ben Timlett & Bill Jones & Jeff Simpson, Tom Tykwer & Andy Wachowski & Lana Wachowski,...
- 7/24/2012
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Terrence Malick. Mateo Garrone. Rian Johnson. Noah Baumbach. Joss Whedon. Neil Jordan. Francois Ozon. Joe Wright. Thomas Vinterbeg. Derek Cianfrance. All of these filmmakers, plus loads more, will be among those presenting new feature films at this year’s Toronto International Film Festival, which runs from Sept. 6th to 16th. Of the 61 films announced this morning, Rian Johnson’s sci-fi actioner Looper will open the fest (a clear upgrade from Score! A Hockey Musical, to be sure), while the others are divvied up between Gala and Special Presentation screenings. Of note: rumors of Terrence Malick’s swift return to the big screen have turned out to be well-founded (barring some last-minute delay); his To the Wonder has been confirmed, along with a raft of well-received Cannes exports like Pablo Lorrain’s No and Mateo Garrone’s Reality. The most insane part of today’s already-stellar announcement is that there’s loads more to come,...
- 7/24/2012
- by Simon Howell
- SoundOnSight
The films screened at this year's Toronto film festival – as the programme release is staggered, this will be updated as more information comes in
The 37th Toronto Film Festival runs September 6 - 16 2012. This article will be updated as official announcements detailing the full line-up are released.
Opening night film
Looper, Dir: Rian Johnson
World premieres
Argo, Dir: Ben Affleck
Byzantium, Dir: Neil Jordan
Capital, Dir: Costa-Gavras
Cloud Atlas, Dir: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
The Deep (Djúpið), Dir: Baltasar Kormákur
Dreams for Sale, Dir: Nishikawa Miwa
End Of Watch, Dir: David Ayer
English Vinglish, Dir: Gauri Shinde
Foxfire, Dir: Laurent Cantet
Frances Ha, Dir: Noah Baumbach
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners, Dir: Shola Lynch
Ginger and Rosa, Dir: Sally Potter
Great Expectations, Dir: Mike Newell
Hannah Arendt, Dir: Margarethe von Trotta
Hyde Park on Hudson, Dir: Roger Michell
Imogene, Dir: Robert Pulcini
The Impossible, Dir: J.A. Bayona
In the House,...
The 37th Toronto Film Festival runs September 6 - 16 2012. This article will be updated as official announcements detailing the full line-up are released.
Opening night film
Looper, Dir: Rian Johnson
World premieres
Argo, Dir: Ben Affleck
Byzantium, Dir: Neil Jordan
Capital, Dir: Costa-Gavras
Cloud Atlas, Dir: Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski
The Deep (Djúpið), Dir: Baltasar Kormákur
Dreams for Sale, Dir: Nishikawa Miwa
End Of Watch, Dir: David Ayer
English Vinglish, Dir: Gauri Shinde
Foxfire, Dir: Laurent Cantet
Frances Ha, Dir: Noah Baumbach
Free Angela & All Political Prisoners, Dir: Shola Lynch
Ginger and Rosa, Dir: Sally Potter
Great Expectations, Dir: Mike Newell
Hannah Arendt, Dir: Margarethe von Trotta
Hyde Park on Hudson, Dir: Roger Michell
Imogene, Dir: Robert Pulcini
The Impossible, Dir: J.A. Bayona
In the House,...
- 7/24/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
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