As style makes a lot of the working in gross sales at this yr’s Cannes Movie Market, Filmax, historically one of its greatest distributors, has swooped on “32 Gats,” the subsequent characteristic from Hèctor Hernandez Vicens who broke out with the 2015 SXSW premiere, “The Corpse of Anna Fritz.”
Filmax will deal with distribution in Spain in addition to promote worldwide rights.
Produced by Carles Torras at Zabriskie Movies, ”32 Gats,” writer-director Hernández Vicens’ fourth characteristic, activates a pair, Ana, 36, and Salva, 49, who transfer right into a home in the nation the place there’s house for the 32 cats that Ana has adopted in the final years.
Ana is two-months pregnant. The couple begins to rehabilitate the home for the child’s start, however Ana begins to sense a presence in the home, and she or he isn’t the just one, it appears. The cats additionally see one thing.
“32 Gats” is a “supernatural psychological thriller and impartial auteur film focusing on realist drama film-buffs and the style/ghost movie fanbase,” mentioned producer Carles Torras at Zabriskie Movies, who as a director swept greatest movie, actor and script at the 2016 Malaga Pageant with “Callback.”
Its director, he added, is “recognised by worldwide critics for his private means of creating sickly atmospheres and psychological suspense with a diminished quantity of characters, parts and settings, as he confirmed in ‘The Corpse of Anna Fritz.’”
“Most individuals wouldn’t put their fingers in the fireplace to argue that spirits don’t exist,” Hernández Vicens maintains in a director’s assertion. Ghosts are the most genuine supernatural determine, he provides. “The ghost in ’32 Gats’ must be constructed from the most quotidian parts in order that spectators might by no means be completely certain it exists.”
“It is a horror movie but additionally a drama,” Hernández Vicens mentioned. “It’s a wager on style, the supernatural, coming in from an angle of fact, honesty and naturalism.”
Pushing the envelope, even for style, “The Corpse of Ana Fritz” begins with what appears necrophilia, as two pals, one a mortician, take benefit of a ravishing useless superstar’s physique in a morgue – a broad metaphor, reviewers mentioned at the time, for the intrusiveness of web tradition into the intimacy of celebrities.
32 Gats – Teaser Poster
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