Principal photography has wrapped in Spains La Rioja region on Isabel Coixets romantic drama Un Amor, a tale of obsessive passion that forces the films protagonist to reconsider the woman she thought she was. The 2023 Goya actress winner Laia Costa (Lullaby) stars opposite Hovik Keuchkerian (Money Heist Film Constellation handles world sales.A sales promo will be unveiled for buyers in Cannes.
Based on the best-selling novel by Sara Mesa, selected by influential Spanish newspaper El Pas as Spains 2020 Book of the Year and translated into 13 languages internationally, Un Amor turns on Nat (Costa), 30, a translator who escapes the big city to start anew in the countryside.
Taking refuge in La Escapa, a hamlet, isolated by the hostility of her landlord and villagers distrust, she surprises herself by accepting an unsettling sexual proposal from neighbor Andreas. From this strange and conflicting encounter sparks a devouring and obsessive passion that will consume Nat fully, forcing her to question the woman she though she was, the synopsis says.
Un Amoris a moving account of existential doubt and the transformative power of carnal desire, exploring the subversive nature of gender roles, according to Film Constellation.
The moment I read Un Amor, I felt an overwhelming need to put the story on film, Coixet has said. She added: It dares us to rethink our perception of love and all its synonyms: Passion, despair, unease, fear and redemption, and drove me to ask myself: Is seduction an innocent weapon? When does this weapon turn on the one who wields it? Nats journey is intimate, raw and provocativeand theres nothing I like more than a challenge!
Costa (Only You, Piercing, Victoria) stars with Keuchkerian who won critical praise and a Forqu Award for his performance in Rodrigo Sorogoyens Riot Police.
Written by Spanish novelist and short-story writer Laura Ferrero (What Are You Going To Do With the Rest of Your Life, Empty Pools) and Coixet, Un Amor is produced by Buenapinta Medias Marisa Fernndez Armenteros and Perdicin Films Sandra Hermida and Beln Atienza.
Behind Oscar-nominated The Mole Agent and Lullaby, which won 2023 Goya Awards this February for best first film, best actress (Costa) and best supporting actress (Susi Sanchez), Fernndez Armenteros is one of five Spanish producers who will be featured at a March du Film Producers Breakfast Spotlight on Spain, part of Cannes Country of Honor focus.
Hermida and Atienza are producing J.A. Bayonas release The Society of the Snow, one of Netflixs biggest upcoming Spanish-language releases. They produced Bayonas The Impossible, starring Naomi Watts and Tom Holland, and Sergio G. Snchezs Marrowbone, with Anya Taylor-Joy and George MacKay.