The Whale
Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Writer: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado
One of Italy’s most notable up-and-coming auteurs is Andrea Pallaoro, whose 2008 award winning short ‘Wunderkammer,’ preceded the critically celebrated debut Medeas in 2013 (read review), which enjoyed a very healthy festival run following its premiere in Venice (he also picked up a directing award in Marrakech).
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Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Writer: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado
One of Italy’s most notable up-and-coming auteurs is Andrea Pallaoro, whose 2008 award winning short ‘Wunderkammer,’ preceded the critically celebrated debut Medeas in 2013 (read review), which enjoyed a very healthy festival run following its premiere in Venice (he also picked up a directing award in Marrakech).
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- 1/4/2017
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
The Whale
Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Writers: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado
One of Italy’s most notable up-and-coming auteurs is Andrea Pallaoro, whose 2008 award winning short ‘Wunderkammer,’ preceded the critically celebrated debut Medeas in 2013 (read review), which enjoyed a very healthy festival run following its premiere in Venice (he also picked up a directing award in Marrakech). For his sophomore effort, The Whale, Pallaoro collaborates once more with writer Orlando Tirado and snagged icon Charlotte Rampling (currently enjoying awards buzz for her turn in 45 Years). Rampling plays Hannah, a woman beset by a severe crisis. Pallaoro has kept mum on the plot as the project has gone through several rounds of funding, and filming was supposed to have commenced in Belgium mid-October 2015 for six weeks (and, more recently, Pallaoro has already lined up his next gig, the fantastic sounding Beauty Salon).
Cast: Charlotte Rampling
Production Co.: Partner Media Investment, Urban Factory,...
Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Writers: Andrea Pallaoro, Orlando Tirado
One of Italy’s most notable up-and-coming auteurs is Andrea Pallaoro, whose 2008 award winning short ‘Wunderkammer,’ preceded the critically celebrated debut Medeas in 2013 (read review), which enjoyed a very healthy festival run following its premiere in Venice (he also picked up a directing award in Marrakech). For his sophomore effort, The Whale, Pallaoro collaborates once more with writer Orlando Tirado and snagged icon Charlotte Rampling (currently enjoying awards buzz for her turn in 45 Years). Rampling plays Hannah, a woman beset by a severe crisis. Pallaoro has kept mum on the plot as the project has gone through several rounds of funding, and filming was supposed to have commenced in Belgium mid-October 2015 for six weeks (and, more recently, Pallaoro has already lined up his next gig, the fantastic sounding Beauty Salon).
Cast: Charlotte Rampling
Production Co.: Partner Media Investment, Urban Factory,...
- 1/10/2016
- by Nicholas Bell
- IONCINEMA.com
A lyrical portrait of a rural Southern California family’s inner lives, their relationship to their ever-shifting landscape, and their growing alienation with each other, "Medeas" is the acclaimed debut feature of Italian-born filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro. Offering a contemporary variation from the pov of an Italian art filmmaker, on the time-honored tradition of the Greek tragedy, ‘Medea’, Pallaoro’s film stars the remarkable Catalina Sandino Moreno, a Best Actress Oscar nominee for "Maria Full of Grace," and Brían F. O'Byrne ("Million Dollar Baby," "Before The Devil Knows You’re Dead") a Tony Award winner for the Broadway drama Frozen.
The film tells the story of a hard-working Southern California dairy farmer (O’Byrne) struggling to maintain control of his family and his younger, hearing-impaired Latina wife (Moreno) whose interest in her husband and family is beginning to wane, "Medeas" investigates the all-too-human state of alienation and its relationship to the equally human desire for intimacy. It’s an outstanding debut feature for writer/director Pallaoro, whose earlier short film " Wunderkammer" won six international awards and was selected in the official competitions of over fifty film festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival.
Largely based on real events taken from newspapers and court trials, "Medeas" features a ravishing visual style and a contemplative narrative approach that’s immediately reminiscent of the works of Terrence Malick and Michelangelo Antonioni. But Pallaoro’s first film is all his own—an undeniably passionate, personal work meticulously crafted with primal beauty and punctuated with sensational performances by its two leading players.
Following its acclaimed rollout to film festivals around the world, The Vladar Company is excited to presents the limited theatrical engagement of "Medeas" at the Village East theater in New York City beginning December 19th.
The winner of the New Voices/ New Visions Grand Jury Prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2013 for "Medeas", filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro also won the award for Best Director at the Marrakech International Film Festival and the Parajanov Prize for Best Visuals and Aesthetics at the Tbilisi International Film Festival. Additionally, Pallaoro won the UK-Italy Creative Industries Award for Best Innovative Budget at the Venice Film Festival. And for her starring role in "Medeas", Catalina Sandino Moreno won Best Actress in the New Director’s Competition at the Nashville Film Festival.
More information on "Medeas" can be found on at the film’s website at http://www.medeasthefilm.com
Synopsis:
"Medeas" is an intimate portrait of a rural family’s inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape. Ennis, a stern, Hard-working dairy farmer struggles to maintain control of his family and surrounding environment, while his wife, Christina, retreats into herself, progressively disconnecting from him an their five children. As tensions increase, each character must confront their yearnings and anxieties, culminating in a dangerous conflict between control and freedom, intimacy and alienation. A journey into the unpredictable boundaries of human behavior, "Medeas" explores the desperate lengths people are driven to by love and self-preservation.
About The Vladar Company:
The Vladar Company is a media and entertainment company, led by Vlad Yudin and Edwin Mejia. Since its inception in 2008, the company has catered to the market’s growing need for entertainment content across multiple platforms. The company focuses on developing, financing and packaging a library of intellectual properties with its producing partners at leading Hollywood and International production studios. The company is becoming a leading producer of many genres and multiple mediums in U.S. and international markets.
Vladar will continue to develop, finance and release projects in different formats as well as create and build brands with partners and investors around the world. Vladar will also focus on creating and developing new distribution models and contribute to the success of independent film and TV production. Its sales and operations will expand nationally and internationally.
The film tells the story of a hard-working Southern California dairy farmer (O’Byrne) struggling to maintain control of his family and his younger, hearing-impaired Latina wife (Moreno) whose interest in her husband and family is beginning to wane, "Medeas" investigates the all-too-human state of alienation and its relationship to the equally human desire for intimacy. It’s an outstanding debut feature for writer/director Pallaoro, whose earlier short film " Wunderkammer" won six international awards and was selected in the official competitions of over fifty film festivals around the world, including the Sundance Film Festival.
Largely based on real events taken from newspapers and court trials, "Medeas" features a ravishing visual style and a contemplative narrative approach that’s immediately reminiscent of the works of Terrence Malick and Michelangelo Antonioni. But Pallaoro’s first film is all his own—an undeniably passionate, personal work meticulously crafted with primal beauty and punctuated with sensational performances by its two leading players.
Following its acclaimed rollout to film festivals around the world, The Vladar Company is excited to presents the limited theatrical engagement of "Medeas" at the Village East theater in New York City beginning December 19th.
The winner of the New Voices/ New Visions Grand Jury Prize at the Palm Springs International Film Festival 2013 for "Medeas", filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro also won the award for Best Director at the Marrakech International Film Festival and the Parajanov Prize for Best Visuals and Aesthetics at the Tbilisi International Film Festival. Additionally, Pallaoro won the UK-Italy Creative Industries Award for Best Innovative Budget at the Venice Film Festival. And for her starring role in "Medeas", Catalina Sandino Moreno won Best Actress in the New Director’s Competition at the Nashville Film Festival.
More information on "Medeas" can be found on at the film’s website at http://www.medeasthefilm.com
Synopsis:
"Medeas" is an intimate portrait of a rural family’s inner lives and their relationship to a harsh and shifting landscape. Ennis, a stern, Hard-working dairy farmer struggles to maintain control of his family and surrounding environment, while his wife, Christina, retreats into herself, progressively disconnecting from him an their five children. As tensions increase, each character must confront their yearnings and anxieties, culminating in a dangerous conflict between control and freedom, intimacy and alienation. A journey into the unpredictable boundaries of human behavior, "Medeas" explores the desperate lengths people are driven to by love and self-preservation.
About The Vladar Company:
The Vladar Company is a media and entertainment company, led by Vlad Yudin and Edwin Mejia. Since its inception in 2008, the company has catered to the market’s growing need for entertainment content across multiple platforms. The company focuses on developing, financing and packaging a library of intellectual properties with its producing partners at leading Hollywood and International production studios. The company is becoming a leading producer of many genres and multiple mediums in U.S. and international markets.
Vladar will continue to develop, finance and release projects in different formats as well as create and build brands with partners and investors around the world. Vladar will also focus on creating and developing new distribution models and contribute to the success of independent film and TV production. Its sales and operations will expand nationally and internationally.
- 11/28/2014
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
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