
Film Factory managing sales for Jaime Rosales’ Petra
9 May, 2018
“It’s a work of magnificent cruelty, performed flawlessly by incredible actors such as Bárbara Lennie, Álex Brendemühl and Marisa Paredes”: this is how Edouard Waintrop (read the interview), artistic director of the Directors’ Fortnight, described Petra [+], the film by Spaniard Jaime Rosales which will be premiered this Thursday, 10 May, in Cannes. The movie is being handled by sales agent Film Factory, whose Film Market catalogue also harbours another powerful title: El Angel [+], screening in the Un Certain Regard section. This co-production between Spain (via El Deseo, owned by the Almodóvar brothers) and Argentina was directed by Luis Ortega, and stars Lorenzo Ferro, Mercedes Morán and Chino Darín.