While the pandemic has reduced film festivals’ capacity to showcase new work, an all-singing all-dancing Spanish-Italian number has been selected for two. “Explota Explota” (“My Heart Goes Boom!”),…
While the pandemic has reduced film festivals’ capacity to showcase new work, an all-singing all-dancing Spanish-Italian number has been selected for two. “Explota Explota” , the assured debut feature of music promo and commercials director Nacho Álvarez, will receive an RTVE Gala Screening at the San Sebastian Festival next week and has also made the selection for the Toronto Festival’s market screenings.
Set in dictator Francisco Franco’s Spain during the 1970s, the musical comedy tells an unlikely love story between an aspiring dancer and the man who must censor her. Inspired by “Mamma Mia” and “Hairspray,” Álvarez – brother of Uruguayan Fede Álvarez – takes the songs of popular singer, dancer and actress Raffaella Carrà and threads them into a story of forbidden love. that it had always been his dream. “’I’ve directed several videos in which music has always been present – for me it was the easiest way of making that transition into features, it just felt natural,” he said. While prod company Tornasol Films seems an unlikely partner, given its previous credits, which include Academy Award prized thriller “” and Ken Loach’s Palme d’Or winning, “The Wind that Shakes the Barley,” its producer Mariela Besuievsky also harbors musical dreams. “I wanted to be a dancer, my sister is a choreographer, I’m very much connected to that world, ” she said, adding that, that after wrapping up on [Uruguayan solitary confinement drama] “A Twelve-Year Night,” she wanted her next project to be “something a bit more colorful”.Indigo Films“We approached her through Indigo and literally the next day we were on a plane to have lunch with her,” Álvarez said. While Carrà never asked to read the script, the director adds that she visited the shoot, saw some of the dance numbers, and appeared “thrilled” that that film was being made.Madrid, Pamplona and Rome – wrapped up in January this year and had reached the post stage at the point of Spain’s national lockdown.synching the music with the choreography,” Álvarez recalled. The director credits the film’s choreographer Toni Espinosa – a regular on Madrid’s musical theatre scene as acting as the film’s unofficial first assistant director. “Finding the right choreographer was key for us because we didn’t know how to organize the dancers. It was such a new world and it had its own mechanics, he was key in telling us how much time we needed, ” Álvarez said. With its saturated colors and musical numbers, Besuievsky hopes that this slick, extravagant fiesta will “infect” audiences with joy and have them “dancing in the aisles” . “Multiple generations of Latin audiences are familiar with Raffaella’s songs and we’re aiming to pull in different generations to the big screen,” she says. She added the film’s central romance and tone also offer a ‘“feel-good factor” to post-COVID audiences which may see “My Heart” break out into territories less familiar with Carrà or the particulars of Spanish history. Scheduled for an Oct. 2 release in Spain , “My Heart’s” other backers are Spanish broadcaster RTVE and Amazon Prime, which will show the film after its theatrical release. Both the streamer and broadcaster are promoting the film across their channels, and while a planned flash mob event had to be cancelled due to the pandemic, a campaign planned on the social media lip-synching platform Tik Tok looks set to reach out to younger demographics.
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