Viggo Mortensen brings "Jauja" to Buenos Aires
- 10 years ago
Actor Viggo Mortensen and Argentine film director Lisandro Alonso promote their new period drama, "Jauja" in Buenos Aires.
The movie features a metaphysical melding of the dimensions of time and space.
Alonso spoke of the difficulty involved in coming up with the film's title, which is a reference to a mythical land of abundance.
SOUNDBITE: Lisandro Alonso, director, saying (Spanish):
"The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May of this year and up to one month before (the premiere) we still didn't have a movie title. All of the supporting foundations, institutions and unions presented it as 'untitled' and it was difficult for me until Viggo sent me an email with some suggestions and one of them was 'Jauja' which immediately caused a strange reaction in me. First I said..uhh, this is Viggo's delirium, but after a while, it began to stick with me more and more every day and it was the strongest idea because we had to give it a movie title."
Morten
The movie features a metaphysical melding of the dimensions of time and space.
Alonso spoke of the difficulty involved in coming up with the film's title, which is a reference to a mythical land of abundance.
SOUNDBITE: Lisandro Alonso, director, saying (Spanish):
"The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in May of this year and up to one month before (the premiere) we still didn't have a movie title. All of the supporting foundations, institutions and unions presented it as 'untitled' and it was difficult for me until Viggo sent me an email with some suggestions and one of them was 'Jauja' which immediately caused a strange reaction in me. First I said..uhh, this is Viggo's delirium, but after a while, it began to stick with me more and more every day and it was the strongest idea because we had to give it a movie title."
Morten