Oscar Winning Producer Gerardo Herrero Brings Dizzying Málaga Title ‘Under Therapy’ to Spanish Cinemas

variety.com:

Holly Jones Oscar award-winning veteran producer Gerardo Herrero, (“The Secret In Their Eyes”) returns to the director’s chair with “Under Therapy,” his stark and unnerving big screen rendition of playwright Matías Del Federico’s theatrical production.

The project bowed in competition at the Málaga Film festival earlier this week and is set for broader theatrical release in Spanish cinemas on Friday.

Latido Films handles international sales. Enamored with the staged rendition, Herrero was inspired to add a distinctly cinematic touch to the script, honoring its darker underpinnings amidst the narratives’ anxious banter. “The first time that I saw the production, I fell in love with the work,” Herrero told Variety. “Despite the fact that the show’s very well directed, written and performed, for me it’s much lighter than the movie.

The movie’s not a comedy, it’s a drama with humor,” he revealed. “I love that they laugh and that afterwards they freeze, smile and think: ‘What the hell am I laughing at?’ The micro machismo that we all carry inside, the movie talks about many things, about the education of children, about relationships, sex between a couple, jealousy, about the acceptance of husbands, women’s work outside the home, and various other issues.” Following three disparate couples as they attend an unconventional group therapy session, the adaptation sees its characters tasked with helping one another recover from deep-seeded traumas that unravel frantically from the instructions their therapist has scribbled and stuffed inside eight envelopes.