Casas de Cine
By Juan Gabriel Garcia
April 5, 2017
It seems like an anecdote from another era. That two
fully consolidated filmmakers in the industry coincide by locating in Fort
Bravo, a western town of Tabernas, Almeria, the land that has served as the
stage for the most remembered films of today's admired spaghetti western, only
helps us to verify that the land of the Indalo lives the second best time of
its brilliant film history.
A time that is only obscured by the glow that shone in
the 1960's, when Almería was known in the dream industry as the Hollywood of
Europe. At that time Sergio Leone became, very much to his regret, the father
of a subgenre that more than fifty years later continues to reinvent itself.
Well, the anecdote to which we refer, which we have the
privilege of counting first film, was led by directors Enzo G. Castellari and
Jacques Audiard, who coincided in the Fort Bravo studios while locating for
their respective films, which will start filming very shortly
But this meeting is even more relevant because both
filmmakers are going to shoot western films, the same one that is continually
being buried alluding to the topics, but that does not stop illuminating recent
titles of great success and repercussion. The Hateful Eight, The Salvation,
Bone Tomahawk, The Magnificent Seven, Debt of Honor ... are good examples that
confirm that the western still has the revolver and is ready to fire.
Western with
French flavor
Jacques Audiard, responsible for films highly valued in
European cinema today as a prophet or Dheepan, changes record and delves into a
very promising western, both for the story and for the cast that is attributed
to him, a trio starring Joaquin Phoenix, Jake Gyllenhaall and John C. Reilly.
The film will be titled, in principle, as the novel on
which it is based, The Sister Brothers, written by Patrick deWitt. It tells the
story of two brothers chasing after a bandit in the Oregon desert. One of them
will ask if what he does makes some kind of sense.
The Sister Brothers - not to be confused the translation
would be "Brothers Sister" -, is in the phase of pre-production and
its filming will begin in a few weeks. The town of Fort Bravo de Tabernas will
be its main center of operations in the province of Almeria.
Keoma Rises
Enzo G. Castellari, one of the most outstanding directors
of the glorious age of the spaghetti western, with titles of the genre shot in
Almeria as Mátalos and returns or Los locos del oro negro, among many more,
returns to Almería to shoot the sequel to one Of the most mythical characters
of the European western, Keoma, who incarnated Franco Nero, who is also
expected to star in this new film.
The first installment of Keoma, which was not filmed in
Almeria, titled like the name of the character, was released in 1976, at a time
when the best western European films had already been made. But Castellari,
symbolically, buried the spaghetti western with the last great work of this
subgenus, and which is also for many the best film of its director.
It has been 41 years and Keoma will be resurrect in Almeria
with the same tandem that gave him life, Castellari / Nero, and under the title
of Keoma Rises. Little do we know about the project yet. As the weeks progress,
details will be revealed. For now it is known that it is in the pre-production
phase and that in not much more than a month will begin filming in the villages
of the province and other locations in Almeria.
Castellari announced his intention when he was invited by
the Almeria Western Film Festival of Tabernas, an appointment that evidences the
strength and new dimension that the western has gained internationally, to
receive a warm tribute in 2014. In that occasion he visited some of the
locations in which now we will hear the action commanded again! And his future
collaboration was conceived, this time as an actor, in a new western, Stop Over
in Hell, by Victor Matellano, and that was the closing film of the last edition
of the Almería Western Film Festival.
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