Chile’s Matías Bize Thriller ‘The Punishment’ Goes To Bendita

Tenerife-based Bendita Movie Gross sales, headed by Luis Renart, has acquired Matías Bize’s “The Punishment,” (“El Castigo,”), forward of its worldwide premiere on the Tallinn Black Nights Movie Competition this Saturday. 

Produced by Ceneca Producciones and Leyenda Movies, it’s the second movie to see the sunshine in 2022 for the multi-prized director of “Within the Mattress,” “The Lifetime of Fish,” and “The Reminiscence of Water,” having gained at Malaga with lockdown impressed “Non-public Messages.” Bendita’s purchase signifies confidence on this newest title, which heads to Ventana Sur for its market premiere on Dec 1.

Within the movie, a pair’s seven yr previous son is lacking, having been left momentarily by the aspect of the highway as punishment. Set in a forest and performed out in actual time, the boy’s dad and mom seek for him. Helmer Matias Bize dissects the refined shifts within the couple’s reactions to this disaster as questions develop outward from the seek for the boy, to broader notions of what good parenting is and its impacts on them as people. 

The movie is penned by Goya nominated Coral Cruz, whose earlier tasks embody Carlos Marques-Marcet’s ‘The Days To Come,” which gained large at Malaga. 

As a chamber piece, it’s closely depending on the 2 leads, Antonia Zegers (“Tony Manero,”, “No,”, Oscarwinner “A Incredible Girl,”) because the mom, and Néstor Cantillana (“The Reminiscence Of Water,” “Neruda,” “Prófugos” ) as the daddy. The claustrophobia of the forest, the Bosque de Qullin, Chile, is captured by DOP Gabriel Díaz, capturing primarily handheld utilising pure lighting so as to add to the realism.

“We had been immediately fascinated by Matías Bize’s new work,” stated Luis Renart, Bendita Movie Gross sales CEO, praising Bize’s “assured and brave mise-en-scène and that clockwork script by Coral Cruz that makes you cling to the sting of your seat, to not point out the wealthy and amazingly complicated performances by Antonia Zegers and Nestor Castillana.”

There’s been a strew of Chilean titles getting consideration not too long ago with Nicholas Postiglione’s debut “Immersion” profitable eventually yr’s Tallinn Black Nights and nominations for Pablo Larrain’s “Spencer” and animated quick “Bestia” on the Oscars. The hope might be that “The Punishment” can change into one other success story for Chilean cinema.