Madrid-based Álvaro Brechner, “one of many main South American display screen abilities to emerge within the final decade,” Selection wrote in a evaluate of his Venice-selected “A Twelve-Yr Evening,” is connected to direct “Mägo de Oz, La Película” a big-scale bio of the Spanish folks steel band.
Behind Cannes Critics’ Week participant “Dangerous Day to Go Fishing,” gross sales hit “Mr Kaplan” and the Venice-selected “A Twelve-Yr Evening,” all Oscar entries from Uruguay, Brechner will provoke principal pictures on March 17. He’ll shoot in Madrid, the Canary Island of Gran Canaria and Mexico Metropolis with a global Spanish-language solid together with Spain’s Adrián Lastra (“Velvet”) and Roberto Álamo (“Riot Police”) and Mexico’s Michelle Renaud (“Malvada”) and Michael Ronda (“Cuando sea joven”).
The film is produced by on-the-rise Spanish outfit Eterno Island Footage, a subsidiary of El Sueño Eterno Footage (“El Largo Viaje”). It’s written by Sofía Cuenca, a co-scribe on “My Fault,” proclaimed by Prime Video quickly after its launch in 2023 because the service’s hottest non-English language film ever.
Mägo de Ozhas revealed over 20 albums, promoting north of two million copies and scoring a Latin Grammy nomination.
“From its humble beginnings within the ‘80s to worldwide consecration, the movie delves into the artistic tensions, victories, polemics and defeats which cast its essence,” the synopsis says. “Additionally, it should plumb the group’s inner dynamics, its followers’ unbreakable devotion, displaying how its music impacted entire generations,” it added.
Based by drummer Txus de Fellatio (performed by Lastra) in 1988, Mägo de Ozthe band stands out for its fusion of heavy and energy steel and Celtic folks, violinist Mohamed “Moha” (the musician Guillermo Furiase) becoming a member of in 1992 and Fernando Ponce de León (Marc Parejo, “Acacias 38”) boarding in 1999 to play flute, whistles, gaita and bagpipes.
Additionally outstanding is the massive variety of musicians who’ve handed via the bands ranks. A written assertion issued Tuesday lists 10 key solid actors. Álamo performs Spain-based Chilean producer and musician Large Simon, a vital affect on Mägo de Ozin its early years; Rennaud limns Patricia Tapia, its largest feminine vocalist; Ronda will tackle the function of Frank, “whose creativity was essential for the distinctive sound,” the assertion stated.
“The mission marks a earlier than and after for us,” stated producer Patricia González, additionally CEO of El Sueño Eterno Footage. “This function is the fruit of an exhaustive immersion within the band’s world, making an attempt to seize and produce to the massive display screen its legendary music and the essence of the band members,” she added.
Prep took in “cautious interviews with group members, a deep examine of its writer and the band’s inventive improvement and a meticulous manufacturing design,” stated González.
The movie’s soundtrack will likely be composed by Txus di Fellatio and Mohamed who may even create unique tracks for the movie and supervise the inclusion on the soundtrack of the band’s best hits.
Pedro Díaz “Peri” serves as government producer. “As a member of the Mago de Ozs massive household, it’s at all times been a matter of delight for me to have the ability to assist propagate rock tradition to half the world,” he stated.
Selection talked to Brechner about “Mägo de Oz, La Película.”
What attracted you to “Mägo de Oz”?
The problem. It’s a giant mission taking in lots of issues and is the primary movie from a screenplay I didn’t write, elevating the query of how I may combine my very own sensibility, sense of drama and humor. And the group’s vitality took me again – the nostalgia gave me goose-pimples, was stomach-churning – to my 15 year-old-self, a heavy rock fan, to a world the place I performed music at full quantity, proving my dad and mom’ persistence.
The band noticed a number of iterations, conflicts….
Sure, aside from capturing its vitality, what attracts me most is the dimensions of its characters who’re deeply human, very singular, complicated. Every band member fought their very own battle, with ardour and a way of vulnerability. [The film will show] their ambitions and defeats and a seek for fame, friendship and redemption.
Mexican writer-director Guillermo Arriaga as soon as stated that you need to be capable to sum up in a number of phrases what your work is about.
It’s a few group of people that have a dream which turns into actuality, which means they’re on the purpose of shedding the whole lot and must reinvent themselves. It asks the way you go on while you obtain a dream, even when it means shedding the whole lot. How do you retain the essence of who you might be? Any band that’s profitable opens the door to extra, self-destruction. Typically our desires’ largest enemy is ourselves. Mägo de Ozs story is especially singular in unfolding in a Hispanic context in Spain, the place the band lives its day-to-day life in Madrid. It’s as if it marks us aside from U.S. and U.Ok. bands.
Is there one thing about bands which creates inner battle? Perhaps the restricted alternatives to precise one’s personal creativity?
It’s one thing that fascinates me. How an entity can obtain a creativity and a way of its personal, whereas being made up of varied band members. It’s not a case of 1 plus one or a sum of its elements. Its elements, the band members, are built-in. Mägo de Ozs members carry on altering, musicians come and go, however the band’s identification survived, reaching a type of independence in itself…..
In what manner would you sense that this will likely be a movie by Álvaro Brechner?
It’s fairly nicely unattainable for a director to not give off a way of his personal imaginative and prescient, in my case a humorousness, of drama and love, and different parts corresponding to fantasy: the distinction between what we dream, what we wish to be or imagine we’re and what we’re.
You stated it’s a giant movie…..
Due to its quite a few solid, the years it covers, the massive coronary heart the movie has and its massive narrative – that claims quite a lot of issues throughout a very long time not simply in regards to the band however private issues about its members and issues about Spain. And have you ever tried to shoot 10 musicians enjoying collectively on a stage? That’s a problem in itself.
‘Mägo de Oz, La Película’ solid
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