The International Agency for Morethan Films Film Sales has acquired sales rights on Sosa ion “Balaric” before its world premiere as part of filmmakers from the Current Section of the Locarno Film Festival (August 6-16).
“Balaric” begins with a group of adolescents on a Mediterranean island that falls on a large house with a swimming pool and decide to take an illicit dive that takes a much darker turn once three large dogs will keep the property. From there, Sosa moves the story a few kilometers away to follow a group of wealthy neighbors gathered in a luxurious villa to celebrate the start of the summer and the day before St. John’s. Although it all happens, a forest fire breaks nearby, which slowly approaches celebrations while techno music explodes in the background.
SOSA is director and director of photography whose previous films were presented at prestigious festivals such as Berlin (“Androids Dream”) and San Sebastian (“Mamánttula”). As director of photography, Sosa Ion worked on films such as “Aliens” by Luis López Carrasco and “The Sacred Spirit” by Chema García Ibarra. “Balaric” features an overall actor comprising Luka Peros (“Money Heist”), the Spanish singer Christina Rosenvonge, Manolo Marín (Love, Hate, and Death “) and Zorion Eguileor (” The Platform “).
Speak with Variety Before Locarno, Sosa remembers the first head of the project of the project coinciding with its 40th anniversary and entering a “sort of quarantine crisis”. “I started to look at how old and older people communicate and put me in a critical way and asked me what I was doing, if necessary, to make the world better.”
“I started with the idea of young people who trapped in a swimming pool and the three dogs as a Greek symbols of what they had to overcome as a generation: exploitation at work, environmental disaster and loss of freedoms,” he adds. “But I didn’t want it to be a survival film, I wanted to have a split in the film where I wondered where the adults were, and the answer was at a party.”
Once from Sosa had this division between young people and older, he started looking at influences such as John Huston and David Hockney’s classic “The Swimmer”. “I felt that there was an interesting mixture of atmospheres to explore and I liked the idea of making two parallel worlds that could touch through water but had no other relationship.”
With the kind permission of Morethan Films
Although the film is named after the Spanish archipelago of the Western Mediterranean Sea, Sosa wanted the story to take place on an imaginary island and runs most of the film in Valence due to flow of funding and ease of logistics. “An island allows you to create a small ecosystem and situations that can only occur in this place. Balaric, in the film, is an invented island, a small universe in itself, ”he says.
“We don’t see the sea,” said the director. “Everyone talks about it, but we don’t see it. It may be a bit to get lost in your privilege and forget the whole world outside of that. I like this idea of pleasure from the point of view of privilege while looking at the new generations and their concentration on self-agitation.”
In this, De Sosa was clearly inspired by the work of the famous Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, in particular “Triangle of Tadness”, but the director also highlights the “masterful” reference point by Jonathan Glazer.
For “Balaric”, De Sosa worked with several new employees, including creatives who had not worked on a feature film before. Among these, the director highlights the director of photography Cris Neira – who worked in Cinemascope inspired by the work of Sergio Leone – and the young musician Xenia, who wrote the partition of a hungry techno of the film after being approached by the director. “Xenia understood from the start what I wanted to music from the film,” added Sosa, stressing the waterproofing of the beaten music juxtaposed against the immensity of cinematography.
With the kind permission of Morethan Films
Queralt Pons Serra, director director of Morethan Films, says Variety They are “delighted” to acquire “balarics”, calling it a film which “immediately stands out for his intrepid approach of the genre, social criticism and distinctive visual style”.
“Ion de Sosa continues to prove one of the most daring and original voices of contemporary cinema, and we have long been admirers of her work,” she adds. “With` `Balaric ”, he offers us a hypnotic and disturbing vision which captures with humor and strange precision the tensions of a paradise lowered by the sun. The public he deserves worldwide. »»
“Balaric” is produced by Cine films, Apellaniz y of Sosa and Jaibo in co -production with the Fabrica Nocturna Cinema. Morethan Film is a Bethaeen Barcelona, Berlina and São Paulo based at the International Agency.
