Homing in on one of the key Spanish titles which could move the box office needle, Film Factory Ent. has jumped on worldwide sales rights to multifaceted romantic tragicomedy “Always Winter” (“Siempre es invierno”) the latest movie from David Trueba, a consummate film director and journalist and celebrated novelist hailed by France’s Le Figaro as the “wonder boy of the Iberian cultural scene.”
Film Factory has also shared in exclusivity with EbMaster a first-look still from the film.
First presented at September’s San Sebastian, “Always Winter” reunites Film Factory with Trueba, actor David Verdaguer and Ikiru Films, Atresmedia Cine and La Terraza Films, sales agent, co-writer and director, star and producers of 2023’s “Jokes & Cigarettes,” which broke out to an appreciable €891,991 ($972,270) at Spanish theaters. Verdaguer, the lead in “Always Winter,” went on to win the 2024 Spanish Academy best actor Goya for his performance in “Jokes & Cigarettes.”
“Always Winter” also toplines Amaia Salamanca, renowned for her performances in “Sin tetas no hay paraíso,” “Grand Hotel” and “Velvet,” and Isabelle Renauld, star of Palme d’Or winner “Eternity and a Day.”
Embracing two of Trueba’s heartfelt passions, “Always Winter” not only serves as his debut feature film, but it also represents the first on-screen adaptation of one of his literary pieces, the captivating novella “Blitz,” which graced bookshelves in 2015.
An international breakout, hailed by Liberation as “delicious, original and subtle,” “Blitz” and “Always Winter” turn on a landscape architect, who travels from Madrid to Munich accompanied by his girlfriend of dazzling beauty, his emotional mainstay, to present a project in a pitching contest which could offer him a professional future. Suddenly, he realises his girlfriend is leaving him, obliterating the coordinates of his emotional landscape.
Miguel encounters Olga, an elderly woman who helps out at an architecture convention, when he is in a state of disarray and confusion about his life’s direction. It is through her guidance that he will start to rebuild himself and discover what his new life’s purpose will be. This is the gist of the movie’s summary.
In its psychological percipience and the relatability of the gutted protagonist’s sentiments post-rupture, leavened by comic riffs, in its 167 pages “Blitz” melded three key influences on Trueba’s career-long creative life: the introspective intimacy of French cinema; bathetic humor, owing a large debt to Rafael Azcona and a Spanish comedy of the absurd; and, as a novelist, the modernism of Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Ian McEwan.
The most moving aspect of ‘Blitz’ and the movie, perhaps, is the strong emotional bond that develops between the protagonist and an older woman, whose sharp intellect helps fill a void in his life.
It remains to be seen how much Trueba chooses to capture of “Blitz” in “Always Winter,” an awaited film which Film Factory describes as exploring a “complex emotional journey, filled with absurd situations, which challenges social taboos, particularly those surrounding the relationship between a younger man and an older woman.”
“I have never wanted to take my novels to the cinema. It seems to me that in their format they are complete and explained. Nor, when other directors have asked me to do so, have I been tempted to accept,” said Trueba. “But the case of ‘Blitz’ was different, because it deals with something which is enormously graphic and visual: the perceptible passage of time on people. An element that in film can be enriched and that makes the challenge of adaptation more stimulating.”
“Always Winter” looks to follow in the line of “Jokes & Cigarettes” (“Saben Aquell”) a sentiment-focused romantic drama whose backbone is the real-life relationship over 1965-1980 between Eugenio, a famed chain-smoking deadpanning Catalan comedian, and singer wife Conchita Alcaide.
“After the experience of working with David Trueba in ‘Jokes & Cigarettes,’ he told us about ‘Blitz,’ one of his most intimate and personal novels. It is a very original story full of nuances that talks about human relationships and how love can resurface in unpredictable ways,” said Atresmedia Cine’s Jaime Ortiz de Artiñano, one of the film’s producers.
“Combining seriousness with humor, ‘Always Winter’ is an irresistible romantic tragicomedy that observes and enhances us. Its effect is like that of a restorative embrace,” added Ikiru Films’ Edmon Roch. “It is a luxury to be able to work again with David Trueba, a humanist creator who knows how to portray people with tact and intelligence to build complex and close characters, who bring a lot of truth.”
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2025-03-17 15:20