Latido Film Swoops at Ventana Sur on Alejandro Agresti’s ‘Lo Que Quisimos Ser,’ a Love Story About the ‘Freedom of Illusion’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comJohn Hopewell Chief International Correspondent BUENOS AIRES — In one of the first deals to close at this week’s Ventana Sur market, Spain’s Latido Films has boarded “Lo Que Quisimos Ser,” written-directed by Alejandro Agresti, produced by Fernando Sokolowicz at Aleph Media, and Gastón Duprat, who have teamed as producer and co-writer-director on “The Distinguished Citizen,” “The Man Next Door,” and “The Artist.” “Lo Que Quisimos Ser” marks the latest film from Agresti, one of Argentina’s most international talents best known for a Hollywood sojourn which saw him directing Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves in “The Lake House” and writing Argentina-set, English-language “No somos animales,” with John Cusack.
Of his Argentine film, “Valentín” weighs in as a big-hearted coming of age tale of a cross-eyed and very lonely young kid. “Lo Que Quisimos Ser” also looks to wear its heart on its sleeve with a story of two characters who like in many Agresti films find solace for loneliness in fantasy.
It goes further, suggesting this fantasy become the bedrock love relationship of their life. Starring Eleonora Wexler and Luis Rubio, the comedic drama turns on a man and woman who meet by chance after a film and go to a cafe where they start talking, constructing a fantasy world where they become the people they wanted to be, if reality hadn’t got in the way., which they never ever talk about.
They fall profoundly in love, meet and talk every Thursday at the cafe down the decades when they live as their true selves.
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