Alfredo Castro-Led ‘A Ravaging Wind,’ a ‘Road Movie on the Verge of a Storm,’ Debuts Poster, Trailer Ahead of Toronto, San Sebastian (EXCLUSIVE)
28.08.2023 - 14:17
/ variety.com
Marta Balaga Paula Hernández’s “A Ravaging Wind” (“El viento que arrasa”) has debuted a poster and trailer ahead of its premieres at Toronto and San Sebastian. Based on the novel by Selva Almada – and written by Hernández and Leonel D’Agostino – “A Ravishing Wind” will play Toronto’s Centrepiece program, before opening San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latinos, a showcase of many of the best Latin American movies of the last year. It sees Alfredo Castro as Reverend Pearson, an evangelical pastor who travels Argentina by car in the 1990s with his daughter Leni (Almudena González, seen in “Argentina, 1985”).
When it breaks down, they end up at the auto repair shop run by Gringo (Sergi López) and his son (Joaquín Acebo). Hernán Musaluppi, Santiago López Rodríguez, Diego Robino, Lilia Scenna, Natacha Cervi and Sandino Saravia Vinay produce for Cimarron, Rizoma and Cinevinay, while Film Factory Entertainment handles sales. “When I was offered to adapt Selva Almada’s book, Cimarron’s producers emphasized my last works.
When I read it, I understood why they had called me,” Hernández told Variety. Previously, she directed “The Siamese Bond” and “The Sleepwalkers.” “[It] portrays topics I am interested in: Families, descendants, space seclusion, inbreeding and the concentration of a few characters in a single space. But it also opened an unknown door, which was the religious, rural world.
I am agnostic and fully urban. I had to get rid of my prejudices. I talked to pastors and their followers, and tried to understand faith in a whole new way.” Hernández didn’t want to deliver another stereotypical take on a charismatic preacher, she noted.