surprised just by going against this trend. The first was the beginning of the adaptation of The real lemon, the novel by Juan José Saer (another forgotten) at the hands of renowned director Gustavo Fontan (recently recognized with an award for his career Konex). The other is the journey that is starting to take the festival circuit Sleeping sun, adaptation to the director Alejandro Chomski made from the famous novel by Bioy Casares, as outlined above successfully in the San Francisco International Film Festival, in the United States. However, with Bioy Chomski relationship did not begin with this work. "I had adapted to Bioy in 1993 when I filmed Escape across a version of the story 'plans for a flight to Caramel." From there we began to discuss the adaptation of Sleeping sun, because we felt we had a chance to get to have a tone buñuelesco, director both greatly admire. "
- Was it difficult get authorization to do so? "It was difficult, because the rights-ba does not administer it but the famous agent Carmen Balcells in Barcelona, \u200b\u200band since I expressed my intention of filming, the rights passed through different people and companies before they are free. Just got the approval years after the death of Bioy and thanks to the efforts of his son Fabian, who knew my relationship with his father and my interest in the novel.
- Why did you bring sleeping sun and no other work by Bioy Casares?
"But the novel itself, and bet the tone he had to get to get to a good film, they were challenges that I wanted to undertake. I wrote 17 versions of the script until a satisfactory draft. Imagine that only a few weeks of filming I felt I was ready to be translated into visual images.
- Never was intimidating to have to respond to the expectation of bringing the film to a prestigious author?
-No. Not at that time. I started working on the book in 1995 and then was much younger and unconscious: not sure where I was getting ...
- So what does this movie in your filmography?
"It's a movie that makes me proud. It's a miracle that has finally been able to do with the quality that was achieved. At one point, it seemed impossible to realize, it's risky and commerciality issue: the failure to successfully done before and a film about this specific genre was, and still is, although a little less-a leap.
"Given these risks, how it was in the projections in San Francisco?
"The film ran to full house three times and always sold-out. People laughed a lot in the projections and more than half the audience stayed to the subsequent discussions. And the opinions of the critics were all excellent.
- What other festivals will attend with the sun Sleeping ?
, had its world premiere at the Pusan \u200b\u200bFilm Festival, the largest in the world of Asia, where he was the only Argentine film to participate, and also in international festivals in Chicago, Goa, San Pablo, Havana, Jakarta and Santa Barbara . The following is the festival of Montreal, and then the European premiere at the international festival in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic. In Argentina, we hope to be debuting this year during the month of September. Article
originally published in the Culture section Argentine Time.