Tuesday, May 3, 2022
Antonio Méndez Esparza, a Spanish director trained in the United States and spoiled by festivals (‘Sala del tribunal 3H’, ‘La vida y nada más’ or ‘Here and there’) has completed the filming of his fourth feature film in Madrid, ‘Qué Nobody sleeps’, based on the homonymous novel by Juan José Millás, which was filmed for six weeks in the Madrid neighborhood of Usera and in the city of Toledo. The filmmaker, who has always moved in the field of documentary, has taken a turn in his career to immerse himself in a story of pure fiction. For this filming, Méndez Esparza had to temporarily leave his classes as a film professor at the University of Florida, where he usually resides, and settle in Spain since last summer to make this feature film with the help of Pedro Hernández’s production company again. , Here and There Films.
The feature film stars Malena Alterio and Aitana Sánchez-Gijón and is expected to be released in 2023. With a script by Antonio Méndez Esparza himself, along with Clara Roquet (‘Libertad’), ‘Let Nobody Sleep’ presents the story of Lucía, who, after losing her job as a computer programmer, decides to take control of her life and buy a taxi. Imaginative and romantic, she begins to circulate looking for her new platonic love, a theater actor fond of opera with whom she shared a few brief magical moments. While listening to the opera ‘Turandot’, by Giacomo Puccini, as a soundtrack, the new taxi driver imagines that she is the same Chinese princess who stars in the opera and who circulates through the streets of Beijing, and not a hard city, touched by the crisis. , from which Lucía defends herself with humor and fantasy, trying to make her clients’ existence more bearable with her incredible stories during the short journeys where they share intimacy and confidences. While she waits to meet the actor, Lucía shares the story of her life and her destiny with her passengers without suspecting that she herself is going to become the protagonist of a play based on her own life. .
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