{"id":2615,"date":"2021-10-02T10:35:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-02T13:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/?p=2615"},"modified":"2021-10-07T10:19:28","modified_gmt":"2021-10-07T13:19:28","slug":"the-white-room-from-everybody-has-a-plans-ana-piterbarg-set-up-at-bikini-picardia-exclusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/the-white-room-from-everybody-has-a-plans-ana-piterbarg-set-up-at-bikini-picardia-exclusive\/","title":{"rendered":"The White Room<\/em>, from Everybody Has a Plan\u2019s<\/em> Ana Piterbarg, Set Up at Bikini, Picardia (EXCLUSIVE)"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Variety<\/strong><\/a>
\nOCTOBER 2, 2021<\/p>\n

Chile\u2019s Picardia Films, headed by director-producer Diego Rougier, has boarded \u201cThe White Room\u201d (\u201cLa Habitaci\u00f3n Blanca\u201d), the next feature by Argentina\u2019s Ana Piterbarg who caught international attention with Viggo Mortensen starrer \u201cEverybody Has a Plan,\u201d her 2012 feature debut distributed by Fox Intl. Productions.<\/p>\n

Written and to be directed by Piterbarg, \u201cThe White Room\u201d is lead produced by Buenos Aires-based Bikini Films, headed by Edson Sidonie. His credits include Siew Gua Yeo\u2019s 2018 Locarno Golden Leopard winner \u201cThe Once and the Future\u201d and Toronto world premiere \u201cKarnawal,\u201d which scooped best direction at last year\u2019s Guadalajara fest and best Ibero-American picture at 2021\u2019s Malaga Festival.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe White Room\u201d is one of the highest profile projects at this year Guadalajara Co-Production Meetings which kick off Oct. 3.<\/p>\n

Fiction, but based on the personal experiences of the director, \u201cThe White Room\u201d begins with Clara, aged 5, who journeys with her father and her dog to the north of Argentina. They are searching for her mother, who got sick and decided to leave the house. They locate her in a church in Yavi, a small town in Jujuy. From inside the car, Clara watches her parents argue. She tries to get out but she can\u2019t. The dog barks, the dust swirl, in Piterbarg\u2019s description.<\/p>\n

The feature project then cuts to Clara, 17, who begins a journey of initiation to the almost lunar landscapes of northern Argentina and takes in the twists and turns of her consciousness, in her quest to understand her mother\u2019s disappearance.<\/p>\n

To approach her subject, Piterbarg \u201cborrows the codes of different cinematographic genres. The initial road movie, which explores, among other things, the awakening of a young woman\u2019s sexuality, gradually gives way to a story of introspection with the feel of a psychological thriller as the director blurs the boundaries between the real and the fantastic, between the living and the dead,\u201d producer Sidonie told Variety.<\/p>\n

\u201cSince I was little, the theme of madness has been at the center of my preoccupations, it is probably one of my greatest fears. And at the same time, it has a great power of attraction for me,\u201d said Piterbarg.<\/p>\n

She added: \u201cI believe that a certain degree of madness is necessary to be free, to grow, to revolutionize one\u2019s own life and hopefully the lives of others. I come from a family of psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, surrealists, Jewish immigrants who risked everything and reinvented themselves a thousand times. None of this could have happened without taking risks, especially the risk of losing one\u2019s mind.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe story of \u2018The White Room\u2019 is anchored in the north of Argentina, and shows not only deeply cinematographic landscapes of rare beauty, but above all a population and customs that are different from those usually shown in Argentine cinema,\u201d Sidonie added, saying that he was particularly enthusiastic about showing this diversity, which makes this country rich and complex.\u201d<\/p>\n

Starring Mortensen as two identical twins and mixing the \u201cpremise of a high-concept thriller, but the drifting feel of arthouse realism,\u201d The Guardian commented, 2012\u2019s \u201cEverybody Has a Plan\u201d marked one of Latin America\u2019s biggest feature debuts of the last decade, released in over 20 countries.<\/p>\n

Piterbarg followed up with 2017\u2019s \u201cAlptraum,\u201d much more of an art film, shot in black-and-white, and turning on an actor consumed by his obsessions.<\/p>\n

\u201cAna Piterbarg\u2019s atypical film career, with a high-budget first film followed by a more experimental opus, shows a deep attachment to artistic freedom and a great coherence with the story she wants to tell. I appreciate this honest journey where the type of storytelling determines the scope of the production,\u201d Sidonie said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Variety OCTOBER 2, 2021 Chile\u2019s Picardia Films, headed by director-producer Diego Rougier, has boarded \u201cThe White Room\u201d (\u201cLa Habitaci\u00f3n Blanca\u201d), the next feature by Argentina\u2019s Ana Piterbarg who caught international attention with Viggo Mortensen starrer \u201cEverybody Has a Plan,\u201d her 2012 feature debut distributed by Fox Intl. Productions. Written and to be directed by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2615"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2615\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chiledoc.cl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}