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LA SANGRE Y LA LLUVIA - BLOOD AND RAIN
Colombia - 2009, 100’, 35mm, colour World Premiere - First Feature Film
directed by Jorge Navas
screenplay Jorge Navas, Carlos Henao, Alizé Le Maout
cinematography Juan Carlos Gil
editing Sebastián Hernández
music Sebastián Escofet
art direction Jaime Luna
cast
Gloria Montoya (Ángela)
Quique Mendoza (Jorge)
Hernán Méndez (Teniente González)
Julio César Valencia (Mena)
Weimar Delgado (Magiver)
Juan Miguel Silva (Torres)
producer
Jorge Navas
production
Efe-X
Carrera 18 # 93 – 55, Bogotá, Colombia
Tel. +57 1 610 7611
acero_carlos@hotmail.com
E-NNOVVA / RCN Films
Carrera 13ª # 37 – 32. Bogotá, Colombia
Tel. +57 1 327 5888
www.e-nnovva.com
Pato Feo Films
www.patofeofilms.com
LagartoCine
Cavia 3108 / 1-7 / (1425) Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel +54-11-4804-4762
www.lagartocine.com.ar
world sales
Rezo Films
29 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, 75009 Paris, France
Tel. +33 01 42 46 46 30 - Fax +33 01 42 46 40 82
www.rezofilms.com
synopsis
Jorge and Ángela, two lonely beings searching for the meaning of their existence, meet on a rainy night in the dark and violent streets of Bogotá. Jorge, a young cab driver, emotionally destroyed by the recent death of his brother at the hands of a group of criminals, seeks revenge. Ángela is an artist and princess of the night, addicted to cocaine and the city’s labyrinths. The loneliness of the night, always the same night, the void of the streets, always the same void, and the city’s violence, will lead them to a dark and redeeming encounter with themselves, much in the same way that rain, like tears and blood, calms thirst and brings life to cold asphalt.
The knight errant and the princess in peril: the courtly myth is revived in the rainy, intense Bogotá night in an encounter between a desperate taxi driver and a drifter, and among gangs of killers capable of doing anything for a fistful of dollars, mounds of white powder, obsessive love, thirst for vengeance and boundless solitude. Shot with avant-garde digital technology to capture the maximum realism of the Colombian night, Jorge Navas in his first feature shows a strong personality and an assured taste for theatricality, and confirms the cinematic vitality of a continent that still holds many surprises and talents in store for us. An original variation on a theme that Michael Mann would like, this debut opts for stylishness but does not echo worn-out stereotypes, to depict human truths through people’s most extreme actions.
Giorgio Gosetti
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