Guadalajara, Mexico — Chile’s Francisco Reyes, who plays opposite trans actor Daniela Vega in Sebastian Lelio’s 2018 best foreign-language Oscar winner, “A Fantastic Woman,” has boarded the Mexican-Chilean-u.S. co-production, “Martinez,” which won the Tribeca Film Institute Canacine prize at Guadalajara’s Co-Prod Meet on March 13.
“Martinez” marks the directorial feature debut of Guadalajara native Lorena Padilla, a Tisch School of the Arts/NYU alum, who also penned the drama. Previously titled “Cuerpos Celestes,” the screenplay has participated in Berlinale Talents ’09, Torino Film Lab ’10, and the 2011 Cine Qua Non Lab.
Reyes plays the titular Martinez, an embittered Chilean in his sixties who has lived in Mexico for the past 40 years and is being forced to retire from his job. As he struggles with life changes, a neighbor suddenly dies and as he sifts through her diary and her things, he begins to live vicariously through her and find new meaning in life.
“Martinez” marks the directorial feature debut of Guadalajara native Lorena Padilla, a Tisch School of the Arts/NYU alum, who also penned the drama. Previously titled “Cuerpos Celestes,” the screenplay has participated in Berlinale Talents ’09, Torino Film Lab ’10, and the 2011 Cine Qua Non Lab.
Reyes plays the titular Martinez, an embittered Chilean in his sixties who has lived in Mexico for the past 40 years and is being forced to retire from his job. As he struggles with life changes, a neighbor suddenly dies and as he sifts through her diary and her things, he begins to live vicariously through her and find new meaning in life.
- 3/14/2018
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety - Film News
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