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Eduardo Casanova films La Pietá

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- The actor and director starts filming his second film after the genre-busting Skins, once again with Ana Polvorosa in the cast and sponsored by Álex de la Iglesia

Eduardo Casanova films La Pietá
(l-r) Actresses Songa Park and Ángela Molina, director Eduardo Casanova and actresses María León and Ana Polvorosa in a promotional image for La Pietá (© Félix Valiente)

Filming started this week on La Pietá [+see also:
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, the greatly anticipated new feature film written and directed by Eduardo Casanova, a well-known actor from television series and films such as The Mystery of the Pink Flamingo [+see also:
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trailer
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(where he explains his fascination with the colour pink, a colour he can often be seen wearing). Filming is expected to take place over five weeks in different locations in Madrid, Andalusia and Catalonia. It is the second film by this daring young director from Madrid, after his impressive film debut, Skins [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Eduardo Casanova
film profile
]
, produced by Álex de la Iglesia, a film-maker always on the lookout for new talent with their own, very personal ideas.

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The film stars Ángela Molina (recently seen in Ánimas. The Other Side [+see also:
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, the short film selected in Cannes Je te tiens and the Netflix series La valla) – in a role initially conceived for Ana Belén–, Manel Llunell, Ana Polvorosa (the actress of the moment, as well as playing the lead in Skins with a prosthetic anus on her face, recently starred in the road movie Con quién viajas [+see also:
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and presented the series La Fortuna [+see also:
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interview: Alejandro Amenábar
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, by Alejandro Amenábar, at the San Sebastián Film Festival), Antonio Durán Morris (recently seen in Ons [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Alfonso Zarauza
film profile
]
as well as Skins), María León (Sin fin [+see also:
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and La lista de los deseos [+see also:
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), Daniel Freire, Songa Park, Alberto Jo Lee, and guest starring Macarena Gómez (who we saw in the series 30 Coins [+see also:
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, and Skins) and the Italian Meteora Fontana.

“After a long time, with many things left along the way, including health issues, I have finally started filming my second film: La Pietá, the only thing I that interests me in life”, said the Director. “It is a totally unconventional horror movie, which deals with the most toxic relationship possible between a mother and her son, drawing a parallel between a dictator and the people, more specifically the dictatorship in North Korea. We have all been in a toxic relationship, it doesn’t matter whether it is a partner, a friend or a family member. Personal relationships are deeply complicated; I am sure that anyone reading this is, or has been in a relationship like this, but… how can you get out of it? And if you manage to get out, how, and for how long will you stay out?”.

La Pietá sets up a different aesthetic world to the one I usually film. Far from Nothing like the photo illustrating this news item, nothing like Skins, it’s not like anything else. It is something much darker; as dark as its characters”, concludes Casanova.

La Pietá is a Spanish-Argentinian co-production by Pokeepsie Films, Gente Seria AIE, Spal Films, Link-up and Crudo Films. It is due for release in 2022.

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(Translated from Spanish by Alexandra Stephens)

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