A remote and dilapidated lighthouse proves an increasingly sinister backdrop for newly widowed father, Pablo (Hugo Silva) and his adolescent daughter Lidia (Zoe Arnao) in the first international teaser trailer for the upcoming Ángeles Hernández thriller “Restless Waters, Shivering Lights” (“El Faro”).
Distribution in Spain is handled by Alfa Pictures with an expected release date of Jan. 26.
Buenos Aires-based sales-production outfit FilmSharks handles global sales outside of Spain. It has shared with Variety in exclusivity a first look international teaser trailer with founder Guido Rud relaying the project is a modern take on horror along the lines of “Relic” and “Shutter Island” admitting, “the audience is welcoming and pre-sales are hot.”
The narrative follows father and daughter through their strained relations after the death of the family matriarch (Irene Montalà). When Lidia attempts to take her own life, they’re forced to take a pause and reconnect at the family’s long-abandoned property,...
Distribution in Spain is handled by Alfa Pictures with an expected release date of Jan. 26.
Buenos Aires-based sales-production outfit FilmSharks handles global sales outside of Spain. It has shared with Variety in exclusivity a first look international teaser trailer with founder Guido Rud relaying the project is a modern take on horror along the lines of “Relic” and “Shutter Island” admitting, “the audience is welcoming and pre-sales are hot.”
The narrative follows father and daughter through their strained relations after the death of the family matriarch (Irene Montalà). When Lidia attempts to take her own life, they’re forced to take a pause and reconnect at the family’s long-abandoned property,...
- 12/19/2023
- by Holly Jones
- Variety Film + TV
This is a 2004 graphic novel – should I say bande dessinée? Roca is Spanish, but my sense is the term is used generally across Europe – that the creator’s afterword notes was tweaked a bit for subsequent publications, finalized in 2009. This English translation – which Roca might have kibitzed on, as his afterword talks a lot about kibitzing on the French and Spanish and other editions in the first years – was done by Jeff Whitman for a 2017 American publication.
So it’s older that it might look, but maybe not entirely so. The original work is about two decades ago now, but I’m not sure Roca didn’t touch it, one last time, before this edition.
The Lighthouse is one of Paco Roca’s earliest works, I think, but that picture is muddy. He’s been translated out of sequence here in North America, with The House from 2005 only arriving in...
So it’s older that it might look, but maybe not entirely so. The original work is about two decades ago now, but I’m not sure Roca didn’t touch it, one last time, before this edition.
The Lighthouse is one of Paco Roca’s earliest works, I think, but that picture is muddy. He’s been translated out of sequence here in North America, with The House from 2005 only arriving in...
- 9/29/2023
- by Andrew Wheeler
- Comicmix.com
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