“A wild ride…”
— Manuel Betancourt, Remezcla
“The casting is perfect. Chaplin’s superbly expressive face
and body language are truly out of time here.”
— The Hollywood Reporter
SYNOPSIS
To celebrate Geraldine Chaplin’s birthday (July 31), Film Movement Plus unspools the North American Premiere of one of her latest films, a campy, tongue-in-cheek fictional film-within-a-film in honor of flamboyant and eccentric B-movie filmmaker, writer and theatrical producer Jean-Louis Jorge, an active member of the trendy ’70s underground scene who was murdered by three teenagers in 2000 at the age of 53. Chaplin plays aging punk diva, Vera, who arrives in Santo Domingo to direct the musical La Palace, one of Jorge’s unfilmed screenplays about vampires and starlets, to be filmed on his home island. Welcoming her are two old friends, a producer and cinematographer Jaime Pina and Udo Kier), both members of the artistic troupe they all started out in. But while the Caribbean production is sumptuous and the musical numbers are grand, mysterious forces threaten the shoot and death begins to creep up on the haunted production.
HOLY BEASTS (2019)
Written & Directed by: Israel Cárdenas & Laura Amelia Guzmán
Cast: Geraldine Chaplin, Udo Kier, Jackie Ludueña Koslovitch, Jaime Pina,
Luis Ospina, Pau Bertolini, Fifi Poulakidas, Jeradin Ascencio
Produced by: Israel Cárdenas, Laura Amelia Guzmán, Rafael Elias Munoz
Co-Produced by: Nicolas Celis, Benjamin Domenech, Santiago Gallelli,
Matias Roveda, Sandino Saravia Vinay
Executive Produced by: Albert Martinez Martin
Cinematographer: Israel Cárdenas
Genre: Drama
RT: 90 minutes
Aspect Ratio: 2.39: 1
Sound: Dolby 5.1/2.0 Stereo
Language: Spanish with English Subtitles
