| Director: | Luis Ortega |
|---|---|
| Production: | Rei Pictures, El Despacho, Infinity Hill, Exile, Warner Music Entertainment |
| Running Time: | 97’ |
| Language: | Spanish |
| Country: | Argentina, Mexico, Spain, Denmark, USA |
| Main Cast: | Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Mariana Di Girolamo, Daniel Fanego, Osmar Núñez, Luis Ziembrowski |
| Screenplay: | Luis Ortega, Rodolfo Palacios, Fabián Casas |
| Cinematographer: | Timo Salminen |
| Editor: | Rosario Suárez, Yibrán Asuad |
| Production Designer: | Julia Freid, Germán Naglieri |
| Costume Designer: | Beatriz Di Benedetto |
| Music: | Sune Rose Wagner |
| Sound: | Guido Berenblum, Javier Umpiérrez, Claus Lynge |
| Visual Effects: | Esben Syberg, Lega Pugliese |
Cinema
El Jockey (Kill the Jockey)
Venezia 81 Competition
Synopsis
Remo Manfredini is a legendary jockey, but his self-destructive behaviour is beginning to outshine his talent and threaten his relationship with his girlfriend Abril.
On the day of the most important race of his career, which will clear him of his debts from his mobster boss Sirena, he has a severe accident, disappears from the hospital, and wanders the streets of Buenos Aires. Free from his identity, he starts to discover who he is truly meant to be. But Sirena wants him found, dead or alive.
Director’s Statement
The clash between the inner world and the outer one, is the battlefield where the movie takes place. The more intense the inner world of the character, the more violent the clash with the outside.
Seeking salvation, the jockey will change identity over and over, trying to achieve freedom with one or another. But all the identities are tormented.
We must kill each and every one of our characters in order to be free, and even then, everything starts over again. A person feels unique and special, living an individual adventure, but it is in fact a collective one. And until humanity is not free in itself, we will always come back to life to be a part of that process. Inhabited by ghosts.
One day we wake up and we are a man. Another day we wake up and we are a woman. Another day, a baby. In any case, we never have the slightest idea of what’s going on. Nor do we access the hidden forces behind life. The world seems to be arranged in such a way that we will never know anything. But the true challenge for our protagonist is to not go crazy.
Jack London published The Star Rover in 1915, in which the narrator is subjected to such intense physical tortures that he undergoes an anamnesis: the loss of forgetfulness. He can remember all his past lives. After the tortures, he is sentenced to death, but no one can strangle his immortality. That book, my own fatherhood, and a casual encounter with a drifter sparkled the main ideas for this film.
Production/Distribution
PRODUCTION: Rei Pictures - Benjamín Domenech, Santiago Gallelli, Matías Roveda
Mendoza 3820
C1430BWN, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Tel. 54 1145435395 info@reipictures.com
WORLD SALES:
Protagonist Pictures – Max Mepsted
Gilmoora House, 57-61 Mortimer Street
W1W 8HS, London, United Kingdom
Tel. 44 07557085409
Max@protagonistpictures.com
PRESS OFFICE:
Organic – Jordan Ilan
3 Pancras Square
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Tel. 020 3793 3800
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