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‘Always Winter,’ A Romantic Tragicomedy by Best Picture Goya Winner David Trueba, Pounced on by Film Factory (EXCLUSIVE)
‘Always Winter’ reunites Trueba, star David Verdaguer and Ikiru, Atresmedia Cine and La Terraza from hit ‘Jokes & Cigarettes.’
has jumped on worldwide sales rights to multifaceted romantic tragicomedy “Always Winter” (“Siempre es invierno”) the latest movie from David Trueba, a consummate film director and journalist and celebrated novelist hailed by France’s Le Figaro as the “wonder boy of the Iberian cultural scene.” An international breakout, hailed by Liberation as “delicious, original and subtle,” “Blitz” and “Always Winter” turn on a landscape architect, who travels from Madrid to Munich accompanied by his girlfriend of dazzling beauty, his emotional mainstay, to present a project in a pitching contest which could offer him a professional future. In its psychological percipience and the relatability of the gutted protagonist’s sentiments post-rupture, leavened by comic riffs, in its 167 pages “Blitz” melded three key influences on Trueba’s career-long creative life: the introspective intimacy of French cinema; bathetic humor, owing a large debt to Rafael Azcona and a Spanish comedy of the absurd; and, as a novelist, the modernism of Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan.
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