It was an attitude to life which left its mark on me forever, and which I try to convey in my films. As far as Benedicta, who plays his mother, is concerned, I also wanted to keep her real first name, which means "she who is blessed". Privacy | Laxe gets the best of his group of non-professional actors, taken from residents of his grandparents’ village in Galicia near where he grew up. Amador was a forest warden. Cinematographer Mauro Herce, shooting on Super 16, films this destruction in such a way as to create the illusion of these giants falling spontaneously, like some kind of supernatural occurrence, before the intrusive mechanical presence of a monster bulldozer is finally revealed. A gaunt, middle-aged man with dark, haunted eyes, he has been paroled after two years in prison for arson. In the mountainous woodland of Galicia, northwestern Spain, fires mean extreme heat or lightning strikes, but sometimes they’re provoked. Well, we aren’t more sensitive here than anywhere else. That is, until the land is ravaged by a second fire in the film’s third act. Lois, a young firefighter, explores the depths of a forest on fire. One market day, a man employed to sell fruit from a stall notices that all the apples are rotten. This is a region exposed to the elements, where people submit to nature as if it’s a greater power. Read Next: Filmax Drives into Comedy With ‘When Brooklyn Met Seville,’ ‘Brothers in Law’ (EXCLUSIVE), Studiocanal Sets Paris Bataclan Attack Feature With ‘BPM’ Star Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (EXCLUSIVE), ‘Las Ninas’ Director on ‘Doubts, Restlessness, Euphoria’ of Adolescence, Cannes Critics’ Week Winner Laura Ferrés Sets Up Feature Debut at Fasten Films, Le Bureau (EXCLUSIVE), Britney Spears Loses Bid to Remove Father From Conservatorship, Refuses to Perform. This creates an audience, and it creates professionals. For the moment, it’s produced by 4A4 (France) and the working title is “After”. It’s a comfort zone, escapism for many creators. Their destinies are linked by the power of a mysterious fire. After two films set in his adoptive home of Morocco, You Are All Captains and 2016 Cannes Critics Week winner Mimosas, Laxe relocates here to the birthplace of his parents, where he spent a large part of his childhood and adolescence, which has brought out a new gravitas and evocative sense of place in his minimalist storytelling. We have a need for clarity (the great stories, common places). Producers: Andrea Vazquez, Xavi Font, Andrea Queralt, Mani Mortazavi We all know that Cannes appraises itself as the supreme purveyor of a given year’s most handsome industrially-produced arthouse motion pictures (that is, those that happen to have completed their post-production by late April of said year) — a launchpad for quote-unquote … There’s an incredible and burgeoning generation of filmmakers. But to “reveal” something you need to “cover it with two veils”. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize. Another positive thing is that we’re far away… that’s healthy. Takes time to ignite but sparks a powerful blaze. 2019 LONDON SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL - Elena Trape, Directora - Les Distancies This is a stately film, sometimes to a fault, (even at 85 minutes some scenes seem overly drawn out) that builds slowly from silence to a crescendo, a natural disaster for whom Amador will become something of a sacrificial lamb. Fire Will Come: ‘wet soil and sparkling ash are treated with awe’. on May 24, 2019. There’s a mix of more classic elements— a story in acts, evoking Ulysses’ return to Ithaca— and others more avant-garde or original facets. There’s an incredible and burgeoning generation of filmmakers. Benedicta was also, in her way, a blessing for our film. Having made it in Spain, where cinema is so polarized between the classic and commercial. After making his first two feature films in Morocco, Todos vós sodes capitáns (You are all captains, 2010) et Mimosas (2016), the Franco-Spanish director Oliver Laxe returns to his Galician roots in O Que Arde (Fire Will Come) to be shown at Un Certain Regard. This creates an audience, and it creates professionals. We’ve set our egos aside. by But what factors help explain this generation? His first time round, in 2010, Laxe snagged a Fipresci nod for his Directors’ Fortnight title “You All Are Captains”. But what factors help explain this generation? Sold by Paris’ Pyramide International, “Fire Will Come” is a co-production of Galicia’s Miramemira, France’s 4 A 4 Productions, the Basque Country’s Kowalski Films and Luxembourg’s Tarantula. Film has a mystery. Shot in the village of the director’s grandparents, the film follows Amador, who returns to his mother’s house after having been accused of and jailed for arson. Director Oliver Laxe proved himself a great aueteur-in-waiting with his theological road movie. Films used to be made this way… by our masters. It's as if you need to abandon yourself almost completely to what life wants of you in order to be able to make good films happen. “Fire Will Come” echoes Tarkovsky in its fog scenes…, Well, Russia and Galicia have similar climates, we’re on the peripheries of Europe, they are both ‘finis terrae.” Tarkovsky helped me feel secure in the relationship between the artistic and the sacred. Hopefulness is hopeless. As the English title implies, fire returns to the mountain, spooking the animals and forcing residents to evacuate their homes as firefighters and volunteers struggle to hold back the flames. Mauro Herce serves as d.p. This is a world where the past is a burden, unspoken grudges are kept, and resentment simmers under the surface. What’s happening in Galicia? he Cannes jury prize-winning third feature from French-Galician film-maker Oliver Laxe (best known for. Terms of Use | And just as the characters in this rural saga know they can’t beat whatever fate nature’s chosen for them, Amador knows there’s no getting away from humanity’s tendency to turn toward violence. Fire Will Come (Galician: O que arde) is a 2019 internationally co-produced Galician-language drama film directed by Oliver Laxe. His second out, he won the Grand Prize at the 2016 Critics’ Week with “Mimosas”. For the moment, it’s produced by 4A4 (France) and the working title is “After”. The abundance of festivals in Galicia. Sitemap | Laxe has a masterly command of rhythm and pacing. With Amador Arias, Benedicta Sánchez, Inazio Abrao, Elena Mar Fernández. It will be filmed between Europe, Morocco and Mauritania. In Spanish, Amador means "he who loves". My earliest memory of the Ancares goes back to when I was 4 years old. The shopkeeper stares at him, equally outraged and completely stunned: "Those apples are not there to be eaten... they are there to be sold." In fact, many directors direct those festivals. Well, being ambiguous. Nothing is ever forced, or stated too baldly in the script by Laxe and Santiago Fillol. He returns to his mother’s (Bendicta Sánchez) remote cottage and her three cows to tend to a quiet life. Fire Will Come premiered at Cannes Film Festival and opens on May 8, 2020. Available to watch on curzonhomecinema.com. That woman is 83 years old... What did you learn during the making of the film? Variety and the Flying V logos are trademarks of Variety Media, LLC. The action feels unhurried, despite the film’s tight running time, and there is a spaciousness to the world-building; attentive sound design and 16mm photography capture Galicia’s damp, green allure. [His] films invite us to dwell on faith and mysticism through a constant blurring of the lines between fiction and documentary, filmmaker and subject, landscape and figure, interior and exterior, and spiritual and material worlds." And it’s one of the things I’m happiest about in the film. Another positive thing is that we’re far away… that’s healthy. “Fire Will Come” echoes Tarkovsky in its fog scenes…, Well, Russia and Galicia have similar climates, we’re on the peripheries of Europe, they are both ‘finis terrae.” Tarkovsky helped me feel secure in the relationship between the artistic and the sacred. 4:38 PM PDT 5/22/2019 The violence sparked by the losses, causing Inazio to lash out irrationally, remains an ugly skirmish rather than a full-blown tragedy. I’m looking to make movies about essential things— as they say in France, ‘writing ‘à l’os’ (to the bone)— but with the intention of reaching a wide audience, of serving the community. 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Amador is just starting to settle into a peaceful life until a fire breaks out nearby. is, it should be no surprise, a prophetic title, and that’s part of the tension that Laxe carefully ratchets up. There are affecting visuals in the aftermath, too — the suddenly tiny, frail-looking figure of Benedicta walking across a charred field; a blinded horse on shaky legs, appearing out of the smoke. Quiet but forceful emotional undercurrents surge not only beneath the reticent human interactions of French-born Spanish director Oliver Laxe’s hypnotic third feature, Fire … The other locals, including Inazio (Inazio Abra), who is working on a large-scale renovation project, turning his parents' stone farmhouse into an inn for tourists, are civil, even friendly with him. Falling eucalyptus trees have a gnarled grandeur; wet soil and sparkling ash are treated with awe. CANNES — Spain’s Oliver Laxe returns to Cannes for the third time with“Fire Will Come” (O Que Arde), competing in Un Certain Regard— the first time a Galician-language film is selected for Cannes. Films used to be made this way… by our masters. Director Oliver Laxe proved himself a great aueteur-in-waiting with his theological road movie Mimosas, which won Cannes’ Critics Week in 2016, but his latest, which premieres in the festival’s Un Certain Regard sidebar is too slight, too obscure to make it to greatness.
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