Pedro Almodovar’s El Deseo, Peru’s Tondero Teaming Up on Salvador del Solar Drama, ‘Un Lugar Para Ramon’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comAnna Marie de la Fuente Pedro Almodóvar’s El Deseo is teaming up once again with Peru’s most prominent producer, Tondero, to co-produce Peruvian filmmaker Salvador del Solar’s second pic after his lauded feature debut, “Magallanes.” Titled “Un lugar para Ramon” (“A Place for Ramon”), the drama is set against the backdrop of Peru’s months-long COVID-19 lockdown where two men, a Peruvian national who is confined to his apartment with the ashes of his estranged father, meets a Spaniard who is unable to leave the country because Lima’s airport has been shut down.
Thrown together by the unusual circumstances, their friendship evolves into deeper and more ambiguous terrain. “I would liken it to two beings stuck on an island together where they are isolated and detached from the rest of the world,” said Del Solar who wrote the script with Hector Galvez, best known for directing and/or writing “NN” and “Paraiso.” The project received an important impetus as one of six projects recently awarded grants by the Ministry of Culture’s audiovisual directorate, DAFO.
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