Love Is the Monster (Amor es el Monstruo). Costa Rican writer-director Neto Villalobos Brenes (All Concerning the Feathers, Helmet Heads) has picked a title for his newest movie that may make you sit up, cope with questions swirling via your head, or each. The chilling dystopian thriller, starring Paulina García (Gloria) and teeming with worry and inequality, will world premiere within the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant’s (TIFF) Centerpiece strand on Sept. 15.
Filmed in Costa Rica’s South Pacific area, Love Is a Monster options Chilean star García as a grandmother decided to profit from the time she has left together with her six-year-old granddaughter. After her daughter cuts off all contact, she has to earn her belief again, just for tragedy to strike: the woman will get kidnapped for ransom. What’s the grandmother prepared to do to guard those she loves?
“She is pressured to make decisions she by no means imagined, pushing love, loyalty and survival into more and more tense territory,” notes a synopsis of the film that explores household, love, age and sophistication inequality.
Love Is the Monster sees Villalobos Brenes return to Toronto, the place his two earlier options additionally debuted.
“A couple of years in the past, I misplaced the particular person I cherished most, my mom,” says Villalobos Brenes in explaining his sharp flip from two comedies to a darkish, genre-infused cinematic experience. “As on a regular basis life turned tougher for her, she present in her granddaughter the energy to maintain combating. That have sparked the query on the coronary heart of this movie: how far would you go to guard the particular person you like most?”
‘Love Is the Monster,’ courtesy of Bendita Movie Gross sales
Love Is the Monster additionally stars Natalia Regidor, Gloriana Vargas and Ericka Reikendorf. Written by Villalobos Brenes and Diego van der Laat, the movie options cinematography by Nicolás Wong Díaz and modifying by Yibrán Asuad and Villalobos Brenes. Bendita Movie Gross sales is dealing with world gross sales.
García, who gained the Silver Bear for greatest actress on the Berlin Worldwide Movie Pageant for her efficiency in Gloria, shares: “I don’t assume love actually has limits. You solely uncover that if you’re put to the take a look at and end up doing belongings you by no means imagined you have been able to. When a baby is concerned, that feeling turns into even stronger. You’re prepared to do completely something to guard them.”
THR can now completely premiere the poster for the movie proper right here.
Now, in case you lastly wish to see a video teaser, we bought you coated, too. Right here is the unique premiere of the trailer for Love Is the Monster. At any time when you might be prepared, buckle up and take a deep breath!
