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Patra Spanou Film Acquires Bafici Title ‘The Pleasure Is Mine,’ Shares First-Look Teaser While Snagging Chilean Neo-Western ‘Bitter Gold’ (EXCLUSIVE)
‘The Pleasure Is Mine’ bows in international competition at Bafici; 'Bitter Gold’ is expected to see an autumn release.
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. Produced by Agustin Gagliardi at Argentina’s Gentil Cine (“Hace Mucho Que No Duermo”), Romain Bent at Paris-based Protest Studios (“Huit”) alongside France’s Frank Thoraval and Ricardo Gonçalves at Brazil’s Quadrophenia Films, the plot additionally explores the subtle comfort of clandestine and half-anonymous relations, as the protagonist slinks from one encounter to the next. Katja Alemann (“La Última Mirada”), Sofía Palomino (“Los Del Suelo”), José Vicente Orozco (“Plurabelle”) and Anabella Bacigalupo (“Rice”) also star in this film depicting affection from the trenches, where the protagonist’s deep detachment is shot intimately.
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