Gael García Bernal On Reviving Romantic Films With Berlin Competition Title ‘Another End:’ “There Aren’t So Many Around Anymore”
deadline.com“This is a very, very romantic film,” Gael García Bernal said of his Berlin competition title, Another End. The Mexican actor was speaking at the press conference for the pic this morning in the German capital alongside his co-stars Renate Reinsve, Bérénice Bejo, Olivia Williams, and Pal Aron. “I’m very proud and happy to be part of a film,” he continued to say, that carries large elements of romance because “there aren’t so many romantic films around anymore.” The fantasy drama is set in a near future in which new technologies allow the bereaved to temporarily bring back their departed loved ones in a different body to help them say goodbye.
Bernal plays a man who loses the love of his life and is then encouraged by his sister (Bejo) to work through his grief with the help of this new technology.
He connects with his dead lover in the body of another woman (Reinsve) but finds that the fleeting time with a version of her is not enough.
Another End is director Piero Messina’s second feature after The Wait, starring Juliette Binoche, which premiered in Competition in Venice in 2015.
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