Fernando Trueba

A Cohen Media Group release

Winner — Best Director — San Sebastian Film Festival Official Selection — 2013 San Francisco International Film Festival Official Selection — 2013 Miami International Film Festival

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CAST JEAN ROCHEFORT AIDA FOLCH CLAUDIA CARDINALE GÖTZ OTTO CHUS LAMPREAVE CHRISTIAN SINNIGER MARTIN GAMET MATEO DELUZ

CREW Director FERNANDO TRUEBA Written by FERNANDO TRUEBA and JEAN-CLAUDE CARRIÈRE Executive Producer CRISTINA HUETE Line Producer ANGÉLICA HUETE Director of Photography DANIEL VILAR Art Director PILAR REVUELTA Costumes LALA HUETE Editor MARTA VELASCO Sound PIERRE GAMET Make-Up / Hairdresser SYLVIE IMBERT Fernando Trueba director, writer, music producer

Fernando Trueba is a multi-award-winning writer, director and producer, with a career spanning more than three decades in film, television, documentaries, theatre and music.Belle Epoque, starring ingénue Penelope Cruz, won both the Oscar and BAFTA for Foreign Language Film. True- ba enjoyed a brief flirtation with Hollywood with romantic comedyTwo Much, starring Antonio Banderas, Melanie Griffith and Daryl Hannah, but he returned to his native Spain with films such as La Niña De Tus Ojos (The Girl Of Your Dreams), also starring Cruz, which premiered at the Berlin Film Festival and netted seven Goya awards. Trueba’s Latin jazz documentary Calle 54 saw the birth of his collaboration and friendship with Javier Mariscal. In the concert filmBlanco Y Negro he brought together Cuban-born musician Bebo Valdés and Spanish flamenco star Diego “El Cigala”, winning the Latin Grammy Award for Best Long Form Music Video. His documentary filmed in Brazil,El Milagro De Candeal (Miracle Of Candeal), won two Goya awards. El Año De Las Luces (Year Of Enlightenment, 1986) won a Goya as well as the Silver Bear in the Berlin Film Festival; The Mad Monkey (1989) won five Goya Awards; andEl Embrujo De Shanghai (The Shanghai Spell, 2001) was winner of three Goyas, El Baile De La Victoria (The Dancer And The Thief) was Spain’s submission to the 2010 Academy Awards, and received 10 Goya nominations. Trueba’s last film,Chico and Rita, won the 2011 Goya Award for Best Featu- re Animation and was nominated for a 2012 Oscar for Best Animation Feature Film.

He began his career as the film critic of leading Spanish newspaper El Pais.Trueba’s published works include his Dictionary Of Cinema. “Highly seductive and exquisitely crafted. A film never anything less than a pleasure to watch.” -Fionnuala Halligan Screen Daily

“A quietly beautiful rumination on mortality and artistic inspiration that will delight audiences.” -Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter

“Exquisitely crafted… Beautiful and inspiring.” -Jonathan Holland Variety

“The quietest, most austere film Fernando Trueba has directed. It may also be his most personal.” -Rene Rodriguez Miami Herald THE ARTIST AND THE MODEL by Oscar® Winner FERNANDO TRUEBA

This is a film I have carried within me for a long time. For many years I have dreamed of making it. It feels like it has been in the making, growing inside me all this time.

The Artist and the Model goes beyond being a mere self-portrait.

The Artist and the Model is the story of a man approaching the end of his life, and his encounter with a woman who is only just beginning hers.

Like most artists, former and contemporary, Marc Cros has devoted his life and his work to the pursuit of beauty. His subject matter has always been the human body, and more specifically the female.

Through simplicity, through purity, Cros has been working in one direction in an effort to reach the core of all forms; beauty in its purest meaning.

At the age of 80 he lives isolated from the world and from work, waiting for the end, without nostalgia and without hope. We´re in German- occupied France in 1943.

The appearance of Mercé, a young Spanish girl escaped from an Algiers refugee camp will both complicate and reconnect him to his life.

So in the midst of these cruel and troubled times, our aged sculptor decides to get back to work and focus on the one thing he knows best, kneading thighs, shoulders, breasts, buttocks, arms, necks... of women. He decides to give it one last shot.

This film “speaks” of great subjects, such as the act of creation, in its most handcrafted sense, but most simple and profound too. Life and death, Youth and old-age, Beauty in an age of horrors... aren´t they all?! A film about the meaning and the need for art. About the search of beauty.

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