Barcelona-based studio Filmax has acquired international sales rights to José Luis Garci’s “The Crack: Inception,” the third part of a film noir trilogy whose first two installments represent for many the Spanish director’s finest achievement.
Introducing the new film to buyers at Toronto, Filmax will also distribute it in Spain, opening the crime thriller on Oct. 11.
Released in 1980 and 1983, before and after Garci’s Academy Award winning “Begin the Beguine” (aka “To Begin Again”), “The Crack” and “The Crack: II” featured Garci’s most famous character, the glum-faced gumshoe Germán Areta, played memorably by Alfredo Landa.
Probing corruption in high places – in “The Crack,” he traces to the death of a client’s daughter to a jet-setting industrialist well in with the Spanish establishment – Areta drives hard into the heart of Garci’s central preoccupation – the capacity for change. personal or or of Spain, in a country...
Introducing the new film to buyers at Toronto, Filmax will also distribute it in Spain, opening the crime thriller on Oct. 11.
Released in 1980 and 1983, before and after Garci’s Academy Award winning “Begin the Beguine” (aka “To Begin Again”), “The Crack” and “The Crack: II” featured Garci’s most famous character, the glum-faced gumshoe Germán Areta, played memorably by Alfredo Landa.
Probing corruption in high places – in “The Crack,” he traces to the death of a client’s daughter to a jet-setting industrialist well in with the Spanish establishment – Areta drives hard into the heart of Garci’s central preoccupation – the capacity for change. personal or or of Spain, in a country...
- 9/6/2019
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
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