he Next September 12 Premiere in cinemas of the country “Almost Heaven”Co-production between Mexico, Italy and the United States with its actions Miguel Rodarte, Carol Sevilla, Katie Burberry, Esmeralda Pimentel and Andrea Arcangeliunder its direction Edgar San Juan. The plot is an adaptation of the homogenous novel by the Mexican writer and journalist Lewis Spotapublished 1956which addresses themes such as social class, fraud, power and ambition
Before the release of the film, both the director and the actor Miguel Rodarte, Carole Sevilla and Katie BurberryThe public of Guadalajara met at the FICG Cineteca to witness the premiere. Earlier, Pratibha held a meeting with the media to discuss the film, which marks the film’s debut. Carol Sevillawho recently suffered an injury at home that resulted in a fracture that affected her ankle and fibula, however, said she is already making progress and that her current tour dates are being rescheduled due to her accident.
The director admitted that as a production team they wanted to bring it into the 21st century “With Deep Love” Spota’s novel. “Our characters in the movie are the same as in the book and the plot is basically the same where an Italian aristocrat, ‘Ugo Conti’ (Andrea Arcangeli), comes to Mexico where he quickly manages to seduce and charm Mexican society and falls in love with the daughter of a very important politician who has a lot of power, but sooner or later the count will end up past him and the truth that my closet was all revealed. will be done.
The adaptation is in the present era, as setting it in the 50s would cost too much, says the director. The film was shot on location Acapulco, Mexico City and Italy. “One of the things we enjoyed most about doing the adaptation was that we were able to get rid of the sexist context that existed in the 1950s and allow the female characters, especially ‘Teresa’ (Carol Sevilla) and ‘Frida’ (Esmeralda Pimentel) , to prosper”.
Katie, who is known as a soap opera villain, played a character “Sugar Mother” Millionaires who, after feeling cheated by the calculations, will take revenge. Also, she revealed that she is celebrating four decades as an actress with this film.
On the occasion, Carol Sevilla was grateful for a role like “Teresa” where she could show her maturity as an actress and a woman. She is the daughter of a politician (Miguel Rodarte), she is very superficial and shares her whole life on social networks, so she will not miss the opportunity to get more likes when she shows her love affair with the count.
“This film, apart from the fact that it’s adapted to the world we live in today, ‘Tere’, what happens with my character is that he carries a burden where the youth and all of us are exposed and that’s it. Theme. The ‘Tere’ of the social network is a girl who floats on the beauty of followers and counts, so she doesn’t care about anything but her own game and winning with her own cards.”
Finally, Miguel Rodartewho plays the role of a powerful and corrupt politician, highlighted: “This film has the peculiarity of having a very harmonious relationship between the cast, which is seen in very few works. I feel very lucky to be a part of this event, as a novel from Spota is being carried. Fair. Cinema is a phenomenon for the country and for contemporary Mexican literature, since Luis was a very sharp writer with important social criticism.”
The film will continue its tour to film festivals and will also premiere in Central America. Additionally, the song “Almost El Paraíso” by Karol Sevilla is now available on Spotify.
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