The director of ‘La won’ and ‘Morir’ directs his third feature, a new psychological portrait of characters
Fernando Franco (‘La won’, 2013, ‘Morir’, 2017) directs his third feature, ‘La consecration de la primavera’, a new psychological portrait of characters with Valeria Sorolla in her first job in a feature film; Telmo Irureta (‘Steal you one night’, ‘Nomofobikak’); and Emma Suárez (Goya awards for ‘The Dog in the Gardener’, ‘Julietta’ and ‘The Next Skin’).
The film presents Laura (Valeria Sorolla), who has just arrived in Madrid to settle in a residence and study Chemical Sciences. Alone and without money, she tries to adjust to her college life as she struggles with her insecurities. One night, she accidentally meets David (Telmo Irureta), a boy with cerebral palsy who lives with his mother, Isabel (Emma Suárez). Laura begins a relationship of mutual trust with them that helps her overcome her complexes and enter a new phase towards adulthood. ‘The Rite of Spring’ is defined as a story about that vital moment when anything is possible and how the most unexpected encounter can change our lives. The script is signed by Begoña Aróstegui and Fernando Franco himself.
Franco admits that «since ‘La wound’ my taste for a cinema based on the psychological portrait of characters going through emotional situations at crucial crossroads has been clear. Laura comes from a conservative background that has nothing to do with what she finds in David’s house, a kind of oasis of tolerance she’s not used to at all.
The film is also an initiation story. That’s how the director explains it. “Laura’s transition to adulthood will essentially consist of rethinking the notions she had instilled and realizing that everything is much more ambiguous than certain Manichaean moral categorizations. He is a character inevitably linked to that situation that we have all gone through in one way or another: emancipation, leaving the nest and consolidating one’s own personality.
With a diploma in audiovisual communication from the University of Seville and a diploma in editing from the School of Cinematography and Audiovisual of the Community of Madrid (ECAM), Fernando Franco (Seville, 1976) was the editor of thirty feature films, after being nominated four times for the Goya in that category: ‘Snow White’ (Pablo Berger, 2012), ‘May God forgive us’ (Rodrigo Sorogoyen, 2016), ‘Journey to a mother’s room’ (2018) and ‘Black Beach’ (Esteban Crespo , 2021), while developing and directing his first two feature films.
The film has Santiago Racaj as director of photography. Carmen Albacete, responsible for art direction. Miguel Doblado as editor, Esther Vaquero as wardrobe manager, Manuel Calvo is the assistant director, the make-up belongs to María Liaño and the hairdresser belongs to Rafael Mora.
‘The Rite of Spring’ is a production of Lazona (Jaime Ortiz de Artiñano), Kowalski Films (Koldo Zuazua) and Ferdydurke Films. Guadalupe Balaguer is the executive producer. It has the participation of Canal Sur, Movistar Plus+ and Cosmopolitan, the collaboration of the Community of Madrid, the support of the Andalusian Agency of Cultural Institutions and funding from the ICAA. The premiere is scheduled for fall 2022.
Source: La Verdad
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