Helping to kick off the year in a promising fashion, back in January, director Pedro Almodóvar revealed he’d be making a new film shortly. “It’s a return to the cinema of women, of great female protagonists, and it’s a hard-hitting drama, which excites me. It’s called Silencio because that’s the principal element that drives the worst things that happen to the main female protagonist,” he added without giving any additional details. With shooting now set to kick off soon, we now have news on the full cast and first synopsis.
According to Variety, Emma Suárez and Adriana Ugarte will lead the film, which follows a woman’s life in a 30-year span, from 1985 to the present-day. Exploring the “inevitable destiny, a guilt complex, the unfathomable mystery which makes us abandon the ones we love, excising them out of our life as if they had never meant anything to us, and about the pain this abandonment causes in the victim,” the producers say, “only a miracle will save” Julieta (played by both aforementioned actresses), “but miracles sometimes happen.”
The title is said to refer to Julieta’s daughter, who is “abandoned by Julieta, and fruit of a relationship with a Galician fisherman,” played by Dario Grao. The rest of the ensemble includes Darío Grandinetti as Julieta’s adult lover, Inma Cuesta, Nathalie Poza, Pilar Castro, Michelle Jenner, Susi Sánchez, and Joaquín Notario. Production begins this May for a likely 2016 release, and while we sit in anticipation, check out the director’s favorite films of all-time.
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