Patra Spanou Film Acquires Bafici Title ‘The Pleasure Is Mine,’ Shares First-Look Teaser While Snagging Chilean Neo-Western ‘Bitter Gold’ (EXCLUSIVE)

variety.com:

Holly Jones German sales outfit Patra Spanou Film (“Blue Moon”) has acquired international rights to “The Pleasure Is Mine” (“El Placer Es Mío”), the debut feature from Brazilian-born screenwriter and director Sacha Amaral, whose prior efforts on short “Billy Boy” earned him a slot at the Cannes Cinéfondation program in 2021.

The boutique sales agency has also shared an exclusive first-look teaser with Variety ahead of the drama’s premiere in international competition at this year’s Bafici in Buenos Aires, running April 17-28. “Films from Argentina have been ruling the arthouse film scene for decades, and talents like Sacha Amaral are to thank for this.

With ‘The Pleasure Is Mine,’ he created characters and places of raw beauty, intense and rich dialogues and a main character whose charm – despite his flaws – is irresistible,” Spanou told Variety. “Audiences from all over the world can engage in the story of this young person, navigating his life without a compass, moving from one bed to another, missing one in a place he could call home,” she added.

In the film, Max Suen (“Supernova”) plays Antonio, a small-time drug pusher whose lackadaisical predilections leave him languishing in the city, spending countless hours traversing the pavement in search of motivation, wiling away the hours so as not to succumb to his unconventional home life.