Filming
Álex Lora makes his feature film debut with this film starring Greta Fernández
Not only did Madrid fill Gran Vía with unicorns with ‘De Caperucita a Loba’, by Chus Gutiérrez, but Barcelona also has its own. Precisely ‘Unicorns’ is the title that, after starting in Alicante, is already being shot in the Catalan capital with the leading role of Greta Fernández and directed by Álex Lora, who makes his debut in the feature film.
With a script by Pilar Palomero (director of ‘Las chicas’, which is already filming her second feature, ‘La maternal’), Marta Vivet and María Mínguez, as well as Álex Lora himself, who has a long career as a short filmmaker. Together with Greta Fernández (‘Elisa and Marcela’o’ La hija de un robón ‘, for which she won the Silver Shell for best actress at the San Sebastian Festival, and the Medal of the Circle of Cinematographic Writers), they star in the film Elena Martín, Alejandro Pau, Nora Navas, Pablo Molinero and Lidia Casanova, among others. It is a drama that redefines the role of women in today’s urban society.
The movie tells how Isa has it all. She is an intelligent, beautiful, young, spontaneous and self-confident girl. Feminist and polyamorous, she defends her life tooth and nail. When Guillem proposes to her to be a monogamous couple, Isa is not quite sure she wants to change her lack of life. Faced with this lack of decision, Guillem decides to break the relationship and Isa has to return to her mother’s house. Living in a world of appearances and comforts, the doubts between new and old lovers, the fascination for new friends that make her leave the old ones behind, the professional doubts about her modern but precarious job, will make the contradictions of Isa and her style life come to light and your world is falling apart.
In the director’s words, ‘Unicorns’ “explores through Isa’s eyes, and her particular gaze, the limitations of a millennial urbanite in an inexhaustible reality. The endless possibilities that open up in front of her and the opportunity to try practically everything, may bring her to the brink of being left with nothing. ”
Although it is the director’s first feature film, Lora has an important career as a short filmmaker. Among his most outstanding works are titles such as ‘Odysseus Gambit’, ‘Godka cirka’, ‘Thy Father’s Chair’ and ‘The fourth kingdom’. His work has been awarded on more than one occasion, as he has won two New York Emmys, a Gaudí award and has been nominated for the Oscars-Student Academy Awards and the Goya awards.
For her part, its producer, Valérie Delpierre, defines ‘Unicorns’ as “a portrait of a generation that seeks, among other things, to redefine the role of women and their active participation in vital decisions. A cosmopolitan microcosm that combines, through Alex’s gaze, an aesthetic of independent cinema as well as a global theme ».
The film is produced by Inicia Films (‘The girls’, ‘One for all’, ‘Summer 1993’) and Jaibo Films (‘Sacred Spirit’) and will be released in theaters in 2022 distributed by Filmax.
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