La fiera y la fiesta
Jean-Louis Jorge (1947-2000) was a Dominican filmmaker and the author of a sensual and transgressive body of work. This film is both dedicated to this unsung hero - unknown to most of the world but revered in his home country - and wholeheartedly embedded in his universe.
Aging punk diva Vera arrives in Santo Domingo to direct her beloved friend Jean-Louis Jorge’s unfinished project: a musical film entitled ‘La fiera y la fiesta’. Welcoming her are two other old friends, Victor, the producer, and Martín, the cinematographer. The trio spent the golden years of their youth together as an artistic troupe. Joining them is Henry, Vera’s loyal choreographer. As preparations get under way and shooting commences amidst numerous glamorous social gatherings, conflict and death also begin to creep up on the haunted production.
Pervaded by a libidinous tropical atmosphere, Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas’ seventh directorial collaboration is a boldly inventive meditation on the ageing process and the pleasures of the flesh.
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Runtime
90 min -
Country
Argentina, Dominican Republic, Mexico -
Year of Presentation
2019 -
Year of Production
2019 -
Director
Laura Amelia Guzman, Israel Cárdenas -
Cast
Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier, Luis Opsina, Jaime Piña, Jackie Ludueña, Pau Bertolini, Jeradin Asencio, Fifi Poulakidas -
Production Company
rei cine -
Berlinale Section
Panorama -
Berlinale Category
Feature Film
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Biography Laura Amelia Guzman
The duo have directed, written, photographed and produced several feature films together. Guzmán was born in 1980 in Santo Domingo, in the Dominican Republic, where she studied fine arts and photography. She then moved to Cuba to attend the Escuela Internacional de Cine y Televisión (EICTV) where she specialised in cinematography. Cárdenas was born in 1980 in Monterrey, Mexico, where he studied communications. The couple run the Aurora Dominicana production company together as well as the post-production studio, Aurora Color, and the independent cinema, Cinema Boreal.
Filmography Laura Amelia Guzman
2007 Cochochi | 2010 Jean Gentil | 2013 Carmita | 2014 Sand Dollars | 2016 Noelí en Los Países
Filmography Israel Cárdenas
2007 Cochochi | 2010 Jean Gentil | 2013 Carmita | 2014 Sand Dollars | 2016 Noelí en Los Países