Cannes Critics’ Week Winner ‘La Jauria’ Reveals Trailer

After screening on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Competition and coinciding with its San Sebastian bow, Selection has been granted unique entry to the trailer for “La Jauria,” the primary function effort from award-winning Colombian director Andrés Ramírez Pulido (“El Edén”).

The movie tracks the visceral journey of two estranged buddies, Eliú (Jhojan Estiven Jimenez) and El Mono (Maicol Andrés Jimenez), who share an uneasy reunion after they’re despatched to a distant and unconventional rehabilitation middle to serve their sentence for a vicious crime. There, they grapple with accountability, ethical fortitude and redemption. This raises questions concerning the unfettered nature of depravity looming within the thick, languid environment.

Produced by Jean-Etienne Brat & Lou Chicoteau at Paris-based Alta Rocca alongside Johana Agudelo Susa and Pulido’s Valiente Gracia, the plotline folds naturally into the surroundings with visually haunting scenic textures that collide with ethereal sound.

“For the reason that writing of the script, we’ve tried to make the movie not solely heard and seen, but additionally felt,” mentioned Pulido.

“Among the parts that I made a decision to discover, from an aesthetic viewpoint, have been the spatial and temporal “offscreen,” that’s the place sound performs an important position in my movie, making a charming environment that plunges the viewer into a brand new universe,” he added.

The trailer begins as a dilapidated pool, stuffed with particles, sits undisturbed. With a gradual burn, the youth adorn the surroundings like ornaments as they cut up their days between guide labor and meditation. 

An oppressive and weighty local weather is portrayed onscreen by furrowed brows, labored respiratory and sweat that drips from each pore. The scenes are darkish and eerily stagnant, largely going down on the grounds of a uncared for property.

Eliú and El Mono navigate their discord. As one takes accountability, attempting to maneuver ahead from the atrocity, the opposite affords a glib reminder of the apathy it takes to commit such against the law within the first place.

The rating is tethered to the sweeping unrest of the pure habitat holding the boys captive. From ethereal to foreboding, the uncooked sounds of bugs, birds, and waterfalls are preserved, alluding to the themes that sit below the floor, away from small discuss and self-discipline.

“Music is the bridge that results in the invisible and the heavenly within the movie. That’s why I labored on the unique music with Pierre Desprat, he’s a really younger and gifted French musician,” Pulido commented.

“We found that by means of angelic voices and really low, deep sounds, we may evoke what occurs not solely inside the characters, however what occurs out of body, that the spectator doesn’t see,” he added.

“El Jauria” display screen at San Sebastian’s Horizontes Latino strand alongside 11 different initiatives, together with Manuela Martelli’s Cannes hit “1976” and “Charcoal” by Carolina Markowicz. The movie will proceed to the Biarritz and Busan Worldwide Movie Festivals. The first solid is rounded out by Miguel Viera (Álvaro) and Diego Rincon (Godoy), with world gross sales dealt with by esteemed French outfit Pyramide Distribution (“Winter Boy”); Bogota-based Cine Colombia handles the movie nationally.

Shying away from tackling societal roles in galvanizing delinquency, Pulido prods his characters to disclose their motivations and look at ingrained fortitude. 

“One of many aesthetic choices I made within the function movie was to maneuver away from that hyperrealism anticipated in Latin American movies that handle social points and, above all, marginal communities,” he mentioned.

He went on, “It’s a movie that would happen in any nation in Latin America, and even in different tropical locations on the earth. I needed to develop the story to a extra common degree.” 

The movie gained the highest Grand Prix prize at Cannes Critics’ Week, making Pulido the primary Colombian director to snag the accolade for an effort that dissects human nature inside a profoundly jarring setting with no distraction. Pulido, championing these uneasy environment, captures the complete spectrum of the human spirit as Eliú’s thoughts dives inward, reflecting on his true capability for everlasting betterment.

“I’m a person of religion, I imagine in change. However, maybe the change doesn’t belong to us, however comes from a contact of grace, from one thing past,” acknowledged Pulido. 

“For me, violence is implicit in human nature and goes past any political, social or financial context. That’s why I made a decision to focus the movie on a dialogue in direction of the intimate, in direction of the depths of our nature. I needed a movie that may permit a dialogue between what the viewer sees and what’s inside. I feel that’s the place the true artwork occurs.”