Madrid — Spain’s Filmax Group is handling international sales rights on “The Motive” (“El autor”) which has just been selected as a Special Presentation at the 2017 Toronto Film Festival. “The Motive” will then segue to a main competition berth at San Sebastian.
As already announced, Filmax, the Barcelona-based production-distribution-sales house behind horror movie franchise “[Rec]” and TV series “The Red Band Society,” will release “The Motive” in Spanish theaters on Nov. 17.
Written by Martin Cuenca and longtime co-scribe Alejandro Hernandez, and based on an early, 1987 novella by Spain’s Javier Cercas, who went on to write “Soldiers of Salamina,” inspiring David Trueba’s 2003 Cannes Un Certain Regard player, “The Motive” turns on a wanna novelist, stuck in a dead-end job as a notary in Seville, who desperately wants to write a great novel but, bereft of imagination, begins to manipulate the lives of his friends and neighbors to inspire his prose. But,...
As already announced, Filmax, the Barcelona-based production-distribution-sales house behind horror movie franchise “[Rec]” and TV series “The Red Band Society,” will release “The Motive” in Spanish theaters on Nov. 17.
Written by Martin Cuenca and longtime co-scribe Alejandro Hernandez, and based on an early, 1987 novella by Spain’s Javier Cercas, who went on to write “Soldiers of Salamina,” inspiring David Trueba’s 2003 Cannes Un Certain Regard player, “The Motive” turns on a wanna novelist, stuck in a dead-end job as a notary in Seville, who desperately wants to write a great novel but, bereft of imagination, begins to manipulate the lives of his friends and neighbors to inspire his prose. But,...
- 8/15/2017
- by John Hopewell
- Variety - Film News
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