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Bérénice Bejo to Star in Pablo Trapero’s Thriller “La Quietud”

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Bérénice Bejo is embracing the tranquilty…

The 41-year-old Argentine actress will star in the Argentine thriller La Quietud from Pablo Trapero, who won the 2015 Silver Lion Best Director prize at the Venice Film Festival for El Clan.

Berenice Bejo

The film stars Bejo, Martina Gusmán and Edgar Ramírez and centers on two sisters’ re-encounter and attempt at closure on a common troubled past.

The film is being produced by Trapero’s Matanza Cine and Telefé in coproduction with Sony Pictures International Productions.

Production has begun in Buenos Aires.

Bejo earned an Academy Award nomination for her breakthrough role in The Artist. Her other film credits include A Knight’s Tale, The Past and The Search.

Martinez Named Best Actor at This Year’s Venice Film Festival

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Oscar Martínez is raising a special cup…

The 66-year-old Argentine actor received the Best Actor Volpi Cup at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

Oscar Martinez

Martinez picked up the award for his acclaimed performance in “El ciudadano ilustre.”

He’s the first Argentine actor or actress to receive the Volpi Cup at the Venice Film Festival.

But Martinez wasn’t the only Latino winner…

Amat Escalante picked up the Silver Lion for Best Director in a tie with Andrei Konchalovsky. The 37-year-old Mexican filmmaker won the award for his work on La Region Salvaje.

Ruth Diaz was named Best Actress in the Venice Horizons category. The 41-year-old Spanish actress won the award for her performance in The Fury of a Patient Man.

Here’s the full list of winners:

VENICE 73

Golden Lion: The Woman Who Left, Lav Diaz
Grand Jury Prize: Nocturnal Animals, dir: Tom Ford
Silver Lion, Best Director: (TIE) Amat Escalante, La Region Salvaje & Andrei Konchalovsky, Paradise
Volpi Cup, Best Actress: Emma Stone, La La Land
Volpi Cup, Best Actor: Oscar Martinez, El Ciudadano Ilustre
Best Screenplay: Noah Oppenheim, Jackie
Special Jury Prize: The Bad Batch, dir: Ana Lily Amirpour
Marcello Mastroianni Award for for Best New Young Actor or Actress: Paula Beer, Frantz 

VENICE HORIZONS

Best Film: Liberami, dir: Federica Di Giacomo
Best Director: Fien Troch, Home
Special Jury Prize: Big Big World, dir: Reha Erdem
Best Actress: Ruth Diaz, The Fury Of A Patient Man
Best Actor: Nuno Lopes, Sao Jorge
Best Screenplay: Wang Bing, Bitter Money
Best Short Film: La Voz Perdida, dir: Marcelo Martinessi
Lion of the Future – “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film: The Last Of Us, dir: Ala Eddine Slim

VENICE CLASSICS
Best Restoration: Break-Up – The Man With The Balloons, dir: Marco Ferreri
Best Documentary on Cinema: Le Concours, dir: Claire Simon

Trapero to Direct Fox Searchlight’s “The Man In The Rockefeller Suit”

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Pablo Trapero is ready to Rock(efeller)…

The 44-year-old Argentine filmmaker has been tapped to direct The Man In The Rockefeller Suit for Fox Searchlight Pictures.

Pablo Trapero

The film tells the true story of Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, an imposter who conned his way into various jobs on Wall Street — as well a marriage — posing as a member of the Rockefeller family. After achieving a life in rarefied social circles, his past finally catches up with him and he fears losing custody of his only daughter.

David Barr Katz has adapted the book by Mark Seal.

This part weekend, Trapero won the Goya Award for Best Ibero-American film for The Clan, which will have a platform release in the U.S. beginning March 19 through Fox. He won the Silver Lion for the picture at last year’s Venice Film Festival, just at it broke the record for largest local-language opening of all time in Argentina.
Trapero has twice had films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscars, for Lion’s Den and Carancho.

Trapero, whose White Elephant premiered in Un Certain Regard at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, chaired the Cannes jury for Un Certain Regard at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival.

Argentina Submits Trapero’s “The Clan” as Its Foreign Language Oscar Entry

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Pablo Trapero’s latest project is representin’…

The 43-year-old Argentine filmmaker’s The Clan, which won the Best Director Silver Lion at the Venice Film Festival after its world premiere there, has been selected as Argentina‘s entry in this year’s Foreign Language Oscar race.

Pablo Trapero

The film about Argentina’s notorious Puccio crime family is produced by Spain’s Agustín Almodóvar and Pedro Almodóvar and their El Deseo production company.

It’s already a box office hit at home as El Clan, beating the record set by Argentina’s last Academy Award-winning film, 2009’s The Secret In Their Eyes.

And it played well in its North American premiere in the Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform sidebar earlier this month.

Days after Trapero’s Venice win, he was signed by CAA; Trapero has had two films nominated for Best Foreign Language Film Oscars, Lion’s Den and Carancho.

The film was released by 20th Century Fox with Fox International Pictures in Latin America, and Fox will release it in the U.S.