Javier Fuentes-León has an elephant-sized project…

The Peruvian film writer and director’s thriller pays homage to Hollywood film noir and the reality-twisting fictions of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio Cortázar.

Fuentes-León’s The Vanished Elephant, which has its premiere Saturday at the Toronto Film Festival, stars Salvador del Solar as a crime novelist whose fiancée has been missing for seven years.

He’s given a clue to the mystery by a woman (portrayed by Angie Cepeda) whose ex-husband died the same day the writer’s betrothed vanished.

Lucho Cáceres, Tatiana Astengo, Vanessa Saba and Andrés Parra also star in the Peru-Colombia-Spain co-production.

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