Headlining ‘Elite’ Star Omar Ayuso, Locarno Title ‘On the Go’ Swooped on by MPM Premium (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent In the run-up to Locarno, Paris-based MPM Premium has swooped on world sales rights to “On the Go,” a showcase of the acting talents of “Elite’s” Omar Ayuso, here playing a Grindr addict with vengeance in his heart.
Set to world premiere in Locarno’s Cineasti del Presente, “On the Go” also has a first trailer, shared in exclusivity with Variety.
The trailer captures much of the spirit of the freewheeling road movie through an Andalusia of music, dance, sex and sensuality –though none of the film’s nudity – of a feature, written-directed by Maria Gisèle Royo and Julia de Castro, which revisits from a female perspective an extraordinary Andalusian feature, 1982’s “Corridas de Alegría.” From the mid-70s, when Spain secured a democratic government after 40 years of rule by the arcane ultra-conservative Francisco Franco, Spain came out of the convent, unleashing an extraordinary wave of pent-up creativity and sex, captured in music and movies in what came to be called La Movida.
If Spain’s Movida was inspired by Britain’s punk, it replaced British aggro with drugs and sex. Early Pedro Almodóvar captures that libertine spirit.
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