Clara Lago participates in this film and is joined by an international cast that includes American Jackson Rathbone and Dominicans Nashla Bogaert and Héctor Aníbal
The shooting of ‘Books & drinks’, which Clara Lago recorded in the Dominican Republic, has now been completed, accompanied by an international cast including the American Jackson Rathbone and the Dominicans Nashla Bogaert and Héctor Aníbal, all led by Geoffrey Cowper (“Third grade”), also an actor, born in Terrassa, Barcelona to an Australian father and Spanish mother, currently teaching at the Higher School of Cinema and Audiovisuals of Catalonia ESCAC and the International University of Catalonia UIC. , and has a script signed by Josep Ciutat. This is It is a romantic and optimistic comedy based on a classic narration of the genre’s codes and conventions, but which aims to be wildly modern, with themes of love, literature and cinema.
The story revolves around two main characters: David, rational and phlegmatic, the owner of a New York bookstore who discovers that his father, who he thought was dead, has just died and has given him a house in the Dominican Republic. left behind, and María, his alter ego female ego, whose vital and emotional character turns his life upside down and connects him to the idiosyncrasy of the Caribbean.
«The film is not just the love story between David and María, but includes many other forms: the romantic, the passionate, the platonic, friendship as a form of love. And the love for food, music, literature, cinema, the sea, the land and above all, life,” Andrés Rodríguez, producer of the film with Pablo Lozano, said in a statement.
The movie is mainly filmed between the Dominican Republic and New York, with locations in the colonial city, popular and bustling locations in the province of Santo Domingo Norte, and paradisiacal locations such as the beaches of Las Terrenas and Juan Dolió. In addition, some scenes were shot at emblematic locations in New York.
“Geoffrey Cowper’s direction is elegant, dynamic and always at the service of the story. Photography becomes spoiled and precious. The artistic direction, simple but colorful. As for the wardrobe, we want to create a unique wardrobe for María and make her in a fashion icon,” says Pablo Lozano.
The film draws on comic codes and conventions through classics such as Billy Wilder, Preston Sturges and Stanley Donen, Ernst Lubitsch’s art of suggestion, as well as a modern perspective with nods to Woody Allen and Kevin Smith’s independent crime comedies. Director Geoffrey Cowper adds: “The dialogue is fast. Our main goal is to make a film that is bright, fresh, optimistic, likeable, sensual and fun. Sometimes nostalgic, sometimes hilarious.
It is the producers’ wish that the film be released in theaters in Spain as well as Latin America and the United States, so that it can be shown on platforms such as Netflix, Amazon Prime or the North American Hulu, without being exclusive to one of them.
Source: La Verdad
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