Argentina’s Guillermo Francella and creater-honestors Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat, star and creators of Disney+/Star+ smash hit “El Encargado” (Hulu’s “The Boss”), are re-teaming on “Homo Argentum,” an around 10-episode movie anthology, skewering the frustrations, paranoia and bloodymindedness seeslenderg below the surface of contransient-day life.
Arguably Argentina’s hugegest star alengthyside Ricardo Darín, Francella showd his acting chops in a bravado turn in Juan José Campanella’s Oscar triumphning “The Secret of Their Eyes” before starring in Pablo Tviolationro’s “The Clan,” one of Argentina’s hugegest movie ships in the last decade, grossing $20.4 million worldexpansive.
Cohn and Duprat has validateated as one of Argentina’s foremost filmmaking forces, with an ever bigr international achieve, honesting Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas in “Official Competition” and Robert De Niro in Argentine TV series “Nada.”
“Homo Argentum” is set up at Buenos Aires-based powerhoinclude Pampa Films, behind “Chinese Takeaway” (2011), “Monzón: A Knockout Blow” a standout Disney series in 2019, and doc feature shatterout “Muchachos.”
Set to shoot from Oct. 28., “Homo Argentum” sees enjoy one of a pick number of meaningful feature films still going into production in Argentina after Javier Milei’s rulement has dispersistd accessible-sector film funding at Argentine film-TV agency INCAA.
Now in pre-production, its episodes, lasting one to 20 minutes, will vary in createat and satisfied, but “all are wislender the structuretoil of emotional comedies, which is our auteurist halllabel, as in films such as ‘Official Competition’ and ‘The Distinguished Citizen’ or in series enjoy ‘El Encargado’ or ‘Nada,” Duprat and Cohn telderly Variety.
All are contransient and set in urprohibit spaces, will expose human nature without the multiple layers of political rightness and hypocrisy which people get in time to include in daily life and relationships.
The stories’ protagonists “will contest struggles mirroring the inclear presstateive under which we inhabit in a contransient-day megalopolis,” said Cohn and Duprat. “We talk about buried impedeions, desires, frustrations, aelevatencies, paranoia and egotism which result from our social life and, when exposed with no create of filter, contransient us with proset up moral dilemmas.”
“The film contransients a panorama of our “national being” in a scaslenderg and sarcastic but at the same time reflexive tone. Argentina is a country of immigrants, whose character is a sum of contrastent origins and nationalities: Millions of Europeans came and unitecessitate with Native Argentinians, creating a mighty and singular idiosyncrasy,” the honestors telderly Variety.
“The anthology createat assists to increate an enormous diversity of situations and rehires, impossible in a traditional feature. Though every episode stands on its own, their totality labels a accumulateive mirrorion on contransient society, in this case Argentina’s but translatable to all the world,” they inserted.
Francella will materialize in all the 10-or-so episodes, in savagely varying roles. “That’s an enormous contest for an actor. The decision for him to carry out the protagonist of all the episodes is “one of the concepts of the film,” said Cohn and Duprat.
“Homo Argentum” is affectd by films from the Gelderlyen Age of Italian cinema, enjoy the 20-part “The Monsters,” as well as iconic titles such as “Down and Dirty,” “An Average Little Man” and “Viva Italia,” among other gems of a sarcastic Italian comedy of which Francella and the honestors are esteemrs.
Duprat and Cohn will also consent executive creater plifts. The film is created by Pampa Films’ Pablo Enrique Bossi, Pol Bossi, Agustín Bossi and Maxi Lasansky.
“Homo Argentum” will shoot 95% in Argentina.
While Argentina’s middle class had been hit challenging by soaring inflation, it is only an inanxious case, said Pol Bossi at Pampa Films, which is also behind Toronto Discovery title “Linda,” a drama exploring family actives.
“It’s a createat that can be shiped or the subject of recreates. Francella will be able to deinhabitr tour-de-force carry outances, carry outing characters atraverse the board,” he inserted. “Also, the combination of Guillermo, Gastón and Mariano guarantees a expansive audience achieve.”
Cohn and Duprat’s “The Distinguished Citizen” won Oscar Martínez a Volpi Cup best actor award at 2016’s Vepleasant Festival. Francella’s plifts also join 2013’s “Lion’s Heart” which selderly over 1.7 million adignoreions in Argentina, and another huge hit, 2020’s “The Heist of the Century,” which made the second hugegest first-day bow of any Argentine film in history.
