Memories of my melancholy whores goes to Rio

06-10-2011

 

TrustNordisk is very proud to see that the 13th Rio do Janeiro International Film Festival has officially selected MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES for their World Panorama section, giving the film its World Premiere in South America.
 
Based on the novel by Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, who is considered one of the most significant authors of the 20th century, and with original score from PAN´S LABYRINTH-composer Javier Navarrete in this Mexican tale director Henning Carlsen shows us all that love has no age.
 
MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES tells the story about El Sabio, portrayed by Emilio Echevarría from BABEL (2006) and Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN (2001), who is an old critic at a Caribbean newspaper. El Sabio has spent all his life as a bachelor, and as a child he idolized his mother to such a degree that after her death he could never attach himself seriously to any other woman. On the eve of his 90th birthday he decides to give himself ”a night of mad love with a young virgin”. An encounter with an innocent young girl (Paola Medina) is set up by the madam of a brothel (played by Geraldine Chaplin from DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (1965), CHAPLIN (1992) and TALK TO HER (2002)) and before he turns 91 El Sabio goes through an emotional drama that includes love, hate, jealousy, murder and disappointments enough to be the death of people younger than him. MEMORIES OF MY MELANCHOLY WHORES also features Angela Molina (BROKEN EMBRACES 2009).

Rio International Film Festival will take place October 6-18.

Screenings in Rio:
FRI    7  15:10   Ipanema 1
FRI    7  19:30   Ipanema 1
THU 13  16:00   Botafogo 1
THU 13  22:00   Botafogo 1
SUN 16  15:30   Ipanema 2
SUN 16  19:50   Ipanema 2

 

Director Henning Carlsen is worldwide known for his Cannes-winner HUNGER (1966). He was a documentary filmmaker before turning to feature films and his first feature film DILEMMA (1962) was based on a novel by Nadine Gordimer.


The Mexican-Danish production is produced by Raquel Guajardo, Leonardo Villarreal, Nina Crone and Vicente Aldape.