The movie accountant wants to be one of the highlights of the billboard next fall. The film, which was shot in Chile, has all the ingredients to move the public: it stars Antonio de la Torre and Daniel Brühl, directed by the Danish Lone Scherfig and based on the best seller of the same title by Hernán Rivera Letelier, but its main asset is its story, because The Movie Accountant tells how the magic of cinema could reach viewers unexpectedly at a time when there were no platforms, televisions or videos and it was not even easy to access theaters.
María Margarita, the only girl of five siblings, lived in a mining town in the north of Chile in the 1960s, when books and movies were the great open door to fantasy. On Sundays, María Margarita’s father would take his children to the movies and then challenge them to explain the movies they had seen. The girl thus became The film accountant or, what is the same, the protagonist of the novel that Hernán Rivera Letelier published in 2009 and that went around the world.
Now, The film accountant has become a cinema by the hand of the Danish director Lone Scherfig, who shot in the Atacama desert in Chile. The actors Antonio de la Torre and Daniel Brühl lead the cast of this production, which will premiere next November. The film also features Bérénice Bejo and Sara Becker and has incorporated the young actress Alondra Valenzuela, who plays María Margarita.
The crew of The Movie Accountant recreated a 1960s mining town. “At one end of the town was the mine, which defined the hard lives of the families who lived there; at the other end, a huge white cinema, which fueled their fantasies, dreams and love life,” explains Scherfig. “The goal is to do justice to the novel, the script, and a story rooted in reality. This should be a film to which its characters, a movie-loving family of miners, want to escape on a Sunday afternoon,” adds the director. .
Walter Salles and Rafa Russo signed the script for La contadora de películas, with Daniel Aranyó as director of photography; Carlos Conti in production design; Mercè Paloma in front of the dressing room and Fernando Velázquez as the person in charge of the musical composition. A Contracorriente Films will be in charge of the distribution and has already begun to promote the film with a poster to which La Vanguardia has had exclusive access.
