We just made the announcement for my next movie (outside of Radical).
Viggo Mortensen to star in Lisandro Alonso drama
Actor will also produce film to be shot in Denmark, Argentina
By DAVE MCNARY
Viggo Mortensen has signed on to produce and star in Lisandro Alonso's untitled drama set in Denmark and Argentina.
Andy Kleinman's Massive Inc. will produce together with Mortensen's Perceval Films banner and Alonso's 4L. Jaime Romandia of Mantarraya and Ilse Hughan of Fortuna Films are also producing.
Production is scheduled to start early next year in Denmark and Argentina. Script by Alonso and Fabian Casas follows a Dane and his daughter who journey to a desert that exists in a realm beyond the confines of civilization.
Alonso's first film, "La Libertad," screened in the Un Certain Regard section of Cannes in 2001. His last film, "Liverpool," premiered at Cannes.
Mortensen, whose father is Danish, was last seen as Sigmund Freud in "A Dangerous Method" and will be seen next in "On the Road" and "Two Faces of January," Hossein Amini's directorial debut. He's managed by Principato-Young.
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Directed by: Lisandro Alonso
Starring: Viggo Mortensen
Awesome! I've somehow become a big fan of Alonso's films without ever actually seeing any of them.
Thanks. You should watch them. Very unique style. This one I think will be great. If you look at his filmmaking and add an actor as talented as Viggo... very excited about it!
that's great news!
a friend of mine recently made her first film with viggo too. what is it with this guy? is he now funding the entire argentinian industry?
Our new film made ION's Top Anticipated Films of 2014 at #38.
http://www.ioncinema.com/news/annual-top-films-lists/top-200-most-anticipated-films-for-2014-38-lisandro-alonso-untitled-drama (http://www.ioncinema.com/news/annual-top-films-lists/top-200-most-anticipated-films-for-2014-38-lisandro-alonso-untitled-drama)
that's great. viggo was pretty amazing in that other argentinian film, and I think an actor like him, with so much gravitas can work wonders in a contemplative styled film like alonso usually does. one of the things that usually bother me about those films is that directors use non actors and sometimes the non actors work and sometimes they're like really uncomfortable people on camera. with viggo you know you'll get some awesome performance no matter what.
Big news! Our movie will premiere at "Un Certain Regard" in Cannes!
And the title is "Jauja" in case an admin wants to update the thread.
http://www.indiewire.com/article/what-will-stand-out-from-the-cannes-2014-lineup-here-are-5-possibilities?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed (http://www.indiewire.com/article/what-will-stand-out-from-the-cannes-2014-lineup-here-are-5-possibilities?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed)
Jauja not Juaja :ponder:
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bummer about the title traffic jam, but what a life you have if that's your biggest worry right now. this is exciting news for you! you're adult biz legit and i'm happy for you <3
I tried my best... and failed.
But yes, also what Jenkins said.
I prefer my spelling, though. Juaja sounds like a delicious fruit beverage.
'juaja' is the spanish spelling of 'mwahaha'
It's the sequel to Juaja Man?
congrats!
Poster:
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that is a badass poster man!
Best reviewed film in Cannes (so far)
http://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.com/index.pl/2014?t=102#102 (http://cannes-rurban.rhcloud.com/index.pl/2014?t=102#102)
Ok it doesn't seem anyone here gives a shit about the film, so let me know if I should stop posting updates. I stay loyal regardless.
Jauja just won the FIRIPESCI award as Best Film from the Film Critics Federation! :bravo: :multi:
http://variety.com/2014/film/global/winter-sleep-jauja-love-at-first-fight-take-cannes-fipresci-prizes-1201190159/ (http://variety.com/2014/film/global/winter-sleep-jauja-love-at-first-fight-take-cannes-fipresci-prizes-1201190159/)
Congrats!
Quote from: Kal on May 23, 2014, 11:04:29 AM
Ok it doesn't seem anyone here gives a shit about the film, so let me know if I should stop posting updates. I stay loyal regardless.
Check again, you got like a million upvotes on the last page. Definitely keep us updated!
Do you have an idea yet when/where we'll be able to see it?
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on May 23, 2014, 12:50:02 PM
Do you have an idea yet when/where we'll be able to see it?
The sales company has been doing a bunch of deals during the festival so hopefully we will know soon what happens with distribution. Other than that it will probably go to some other festivals as well. I will keep you guys posted as we know more.
It's a bummer we didn't win the main prize, but I had a feeling that the President of the Jury was going to screw us. The film was beloved by everyone, the audience, the critics, etc. Best reviews of any movie in the entire festival, and over 50 reviews by top critics as well as the general sense for what I read on Twitter and in the press. It didn't win. A movie most people didn't even see and that has pretty bad critics and reviews ended up winning instead. Oh well!
this is huge for many reasons kal, and I salute you for this because it fucking rocks.
I have impossible expectations for this film now. Lisandro Alonso is big in latinamerica, he is up there with Reygadas and him working with an actor like Viggo can only mean great things. I was a big fan of los muertos, but liverpool left me a little cold. A drastic change like having a big hollywood star in your next film, in the case of Alonso is exciting, and can only mean good things.
But to spice things up, here. What can you tell us about the process of getting this film made, how did Lisandro Alonso got into his head to find viggo for it, and any other cool info or anecdotes about the production.
congrats again!
Quote from: Alexandro on May 23, 2014, 11:21:12 PM
But to spice things up, here. What can you tell us about the process of getting this film made, how did Lisandro Alonso got into his head to find viggo for it, and any other cool info or anecdotes about the production.
Lisandro and I started talking about this like 5 years ago. We are friends and we wanted to make a movie together. We had made the opposite type of films so far, I did mostly commercial movies and comedies, he did ultra artistic and slow films. So one way to mix both and make something appealing to a slightly wider audience was to get a well known actor involved. Viggo was his first and only choice, and as he started writing the project with Fabian Casas, they did it with Viggo in mind all along. It was really great when he decided to not just act, but produce the film with us and get super involved in the entire process.
There's a segment that was shot in Denmark, and the rest of the film in Argentina. Post production was mostly between Argentina and Mexico.
What did you do on this picture kal?
I have a couple of filmmaker friends (husband and wife, they coproduced my film actually) who make films in the vein of this contemporary latin american cinema, the so called contemplative modern cinema, with natural landscapes, non actors, all that. They recently made their last film with a new ingredient in the mix, none other than Geraldine Chaplin. I've been really excited about that because one of the things that always bothered me about these types of films (not necessarily theirs or alonso's, but still) was the "pass" given to their non actors to not really do anything and look awkward on camera and be in a middle ground between trying to act and failing (bresson school and all that), and I think a real actor, one as good as geraldine chaplin or viggo mortensen can bring something incredible to the table in this type of filmmaking, not to mention the wider appeal. but actors can keep your attention in a way non actors just can't all the time. I hope more filmmakers dare to do mix ups like this: thin narrative filmmakers can go with big actors, and linear commercial filmmakers can go to non actors.
If anyone is planning to attend the Toronto Film Festival (@mod @cine), JAUJA is having it's North American premiere there!
http://www.tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/programmes/wavelengths-all/jauja (http://www.tiff.net/festivals/thefestival/programmes/wavelengths-all/jauja)
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/awards-and-festivals/tiff/want-to-meet-arnold-tiff-announces-next-round-of-2014-films/article20001097/ (http://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/awards-and-festivals/tiff/want-to-meet-arnold-tiff-announces-next-round-of-2014-films/article20001097/)
gotchu babe:
Quote'Jauja' finally has U.S. distribution—Cinema Guild has slated the film for an early 2015 release
oh i forgot to c+p the url. this was entertainment weekly news \m/
That's right baby!
http://variety.com/2014/film/news/viggo-mortensen-jauja-1201289918/ (http://variety.com/2014/film/news/viggo-mortensen-jauja-1201289918/)
congrats!!!
I hope they release it in a timely fashion - I can't wait to see it.
Quote from: Ghostboy on August 25, 2014, 11:02:24 PM
I hope they release it in a timely fashion - I can't wait to see it.
If you're in LA/NY in the next few months you may get to see it sooner :yabbse-thumbup:
I'll drive down to LA just to see it. just kidding I don't drive I'll have to fly.
Got my ticket for the London Film Festival screening. Excited and congrats Kal.
please do that thing, what's it called, when you tape the movie while watching it. please
That's great Max.
Comes out at NYFF in two weeks for whoever is in town.
And AFI Fest in LA in early November.
are we drunk? is this a bar?
wtf, of course this has a trailer, i have a goddamn ticket to see it
Quote from: jenkins<3 on October 30, 2014, 01:27:28 PM
i have a goddamn ticket to see it
Cool.
AFI? Which day?
VOD ETA?
wednesday 9pm
That clip was pretty friggin mesmerizing. I have no idea what this movie is going to be like.
Yeah that was hypnotic. Even something as simple as Viggo speaking Danish was eerie, and that he has his back to the camera the whole time.
Quote from: Jeremy Blackman on October 30, 2014, 09:48:48 PM
VOD ETA?
It's going to have a limited theatrical run sometime between Jan-Mar and then should be available through VOD, online and others.
LA folks, if anyone wants to come Saturday or Wednesday to see Jauja at AFI let me know. I may have a couple extra tickets.
#9 best movie of the year by Sight&Sound and the best critics.
LINK (http://www.bfi.org.uk/best-films-2014?utm_content=buffer68d67&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitterbfi&utm_campaign=buffer)
Boyhood at #1.
Congrats Kal! Any word of when this is hitting U.K. or London?
Quote from: max from fearless on December 01, 2014, 08:27:11 AM
Congrats Kal! Any word of when this is hitting U.K. or London?
Not sure of dates. Soda bought UK rights. I assume early 2015, same as US and some other countries.
Glad you liked it.
MINOR SPOILER: Everything except the ending is Argentina. That last part is Denmark.
This is the kind of film that makes me feel bad for praising Interstellar.
So much beauty here. To be ridiculously reductive and not even come close to the real thing: this is like a dream Tarkovsky would have dreamed after watching The Searchers.
Congrats and thanks, Kal.
Congrats indeed on a really good film, kal.
The greens in the beginning are still stuck on my retina (and the red of the commander's pants), the pace and sense of space that intensified the search so much. And it's funny!
Kal, please come to the rescue and provide the correct pronunciation of the title, at the festival where I saw it there were at least three versions going around.
SPOILERS
What did you make of the ending Axo? It was a shock, to put it mildly, and initially I was disappointed to end up in it-was-all-a-dream territory (and is that what it is?), but then I was seduced by some thoughts on how it changed the preceding story for me. Again, to be reductive: An orphan dreaming of a parent? An intense longing for someone shouting ones name in the desert? Of an intensity of focus to counter her languid strolling?
The film really messed with my head and left me with like ten different interpretations and the feeling that it doesn't matter which of them is true or (most satisfyingly)if there even has to be one. This is all from lines /images in the movie:
It's definitely a dream. When Inge runs away from the camp the only thing she decides to keep is a timepiece. The old woman is the girl. She says she'll be here forever. The dog is the key. The lost General in the desert was reported being seen roaming around leading a pack of thieves dressed like a woman. His dog disappeared with him and its name was "Jersey". So the general's(who dresses like a woman) dog is the girl's dog in the present. The dog scratches himself because he doesn't understand why she has to be away so long. Dogs understand way more than we give them credit for. The present girl's house is filled with portraits of her ancestors in the same blue uniforms. The house is almost a museum. She grows up, alone, enveloped in the past. So she dreams a past for herself, where her father searches the wilderness for her, makes mistakes, falters, falls(growing up is the realization that our parents are fallible), where she's a great General who rebels and leads a gang of outlaws against greasy, pervy, genocidal colonialists, where she lives forever and has a dog that follows her everywhere. Something like that. Or you can do a Borgesian flip and reverse everything I said and make the dreamer the dreamed. Or nothing like that. But I loved that the film made me think these things.
I fucking love this. Beautiful analysis. Someday we can discuss if what you guys are thinking has anything to do with what the Director was thinking but the beauty of this film is that WHO CARES. It's all possible and it all makes sense. Or maybe it doesn't.
The name is pronounced "HOW-HA".
For anyone who cares, this will be officially announced shortly but the film will come out in select theaters in New York and Los Angeles in March. Hopefully we'll add other cities.
Theatrical release from Cinema Guild on March 20, 2015 in New York, March 27, 2015 in LA, national expansion to follow.
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Even people who don't like the film have to admit the posters are breathtaking. :violin: :roll:
I will be attending some of the early screenings in those cities with Viggo, so if anyone here wants to come let me know in advance.
:yabbse-thumbup:
Looks great. Definitely planning a New York trip in March to see it.
Quote from: Gold Trumpet on February 10, 2015, 04:25:41 PM
Looks great. Definitely planning a New York trip in March to see it.
Let me know if you come. Same for everyone else here.
March 20th is NY. March 27th LA.
Opens in New York THIS FRIDAY.
Los Angeles NEXT FRIDAY.
More cities coming.
Here is the full schedule which is being updated every week with new cities and theaters.
http://www.cinemaguild.com/theatrical/jauja.html
If anyone wants to come see it in Los Angeles, Viggo will be doing Q&A next Friday and Saturday. Unfortunately he had to cancel his NY visit last minute.
follows kumiko, the treasure hunter at the nuart, and is followed by kill me three times. think you're in a great slot and i'm excited! i'll be there and please pm me if arrangements can be made
Okay, this previews at my work on 2nd April, have my ticket and am so glad I'm seeing it on the big screen first!!!
Congrats again Kal...any chance anyone from the film will be in London?
Quote from: max from fearless on March 19, 2015, 08:20:10 AM
Congrats again Kal...any chance anyone from the film will be in London?
Pretty sure Viggo will be there for one of the screenings but not sure.
On a separate note, we have 86% Rotten Tomatoes with Top Critics, and all the reviews are pretty great.
Look at what NPR says:
http://www.npr.org/2015/03/19/393819360/jauja-a-land-of-plenty-but-hard-to-find
The first paragraph is probably the best thing anyone can say about your film:
"Predicting year-bests in March is a recipe for eating your words, so I'll just say this: I can't imagine more than a couple of movies surpassing Lisandro Alonso's Jauja this year (it's certainly better than anything from 2014). And we'll be incredibly lucky to receive anything as visually stunning."
i really love what lisandro alonso says here "I'm not really interested in the plot that the narrator starts telling in the film. What really interests me is an aesthetic point of view about things, images, this time and space in which to create cinema, and where those elements can take us as an audience. I think cinema is still too young to be forced to only exist in one form, in this more conventional way that everybody knows. As a viewer, I like to be surprised by a movie, so I start to start to ask different questions to which I have no answers."
It got a week extension in New York if anyone wants to go see it.
And it opens tomorrow in Los Angeles at the Nuart. Tickets: http://www.landmarktheatres.com/los-angeles/nuart-theatre/film-info/jauja
Q&A with Viggo tomorrow and Saturday night after the 7:30pm screening.
Amazing reviews keep piling up. Variety, Vice, EW, etc. 92% on the Tomatometer today.
for anyone in the bay area, SF Film Fest screens Jauja this Friday 24 Sunday 26 Tuesday 28
http://www.sffs.org/sfiff58/program/jauja#.VTl0GWZLrdA
This changed my day. Fucking loved it. Diving in the cinema, just oozing. At nighttime, with the least amount of hope, with the stars, the clouds veiling the stars to an overflow of music. The Argentinian landscape wrote this film, it dictated it-- as if what we were watching was authorless. When the two are beginning to fuck, the power and emotion given to the delicate white fluffy plant tells a story and evokes a feeling that shows one major example of the cinema telling the real story and real feelings and real meanings laced together in this film.... when the daughter tells her father that the landscape "fills her", and the shift in Viggo walking up the hill, looking back, getting to the top of the hill. The story was so simple, and I didn't like the way it ended, but it didn't ruin the movie for me at all. I was too far out for anything to break its spell.
Seeing this again on Tuesday.
Blu-ray (http://www.amazon.com/Jauja-Blu-ray/dp/B00YPY3C7U?SubscriptionId=AKIAIY4YSQJMFDJATNBA&tag=bluray-012-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B00YPY3C7U&m=ATVPDKIKX0DER) from Cinema Guild on July 21, 2015
what a masterpiece. just saw it. I'm blown away.
what colors and how it takes you in. I was reluctant at first but as it progressed I felt myself being sucked into it's spell.
great fucking film.
I didn't check if anyone has said this yet but this is on Netflix right now and it is amazing
The funniest thing about the film being out on Netflix is that it has 2 stars compared to 92% Rotten Tomatoes and amazing reception elsewhere. I think most idiots on Netflix see Viggo on a horse and think its supposed to be another Lord of the Rings.