THE UNTAMED
synopsis
A social parable that focuses on Mexico, but also wishes to be universal. A more metaphysical film than Amat Escalante's previous film Heli (2013, Best Director at Cannes). A story about falling in love and vanishing illusions in a highland city in Mexico. Veronica (Simone Bucio) goes down to find the point of impact of a meteorite that crashed and altered the configuration of the area. In the same way, she will change the lives of Angel (Jesùs Mesa) and Alejandra (Ruth Ramos), a young couple that puts its determination to the test as they try, with their two children, to overcome adversity.
| international title: | The Untamed |
| original title: | La región salvaje |
| country: | Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland |
| sales agent: | The Match Factory |
| year: | 2016 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Amat Escalante |
| film run: | 100' |
| screenplay: | Amat Escalante, Gibrán Portela |
| cast: | Ruth Ramos, Simone Bucio, Jesús Meza, Edén Villavicencio |
| cinematography by: | Manuel Alberto Claro |
| film editing: | Jacob Secher Schulsinger, Fernanda De la Peza |
| producer: | Jaime Romandia, Fernanda de la Peza, Amat Escalante |
| co-producer: | Katja Adomeit, Maria Ekerhovd, Jean Labadie, Anne-Laure Labadie, Katrin Pors, Michael Weber |
| production: | Le Pacte, Mer Film, Adomeit Film, Bord Cadre films, The Match Factory Productions, Snowglobe, Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF), ARTE GEIE, Pimienta Films [MX], Labo Digital [MX] |
| backing: | Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía [MX], Fondo para la Producción Cinematográfica de Calidad - FOPROCINE [MX], Copenhagen Film Fund [DK], Danish Film Institute [DK], CNC - Aide au Cinéma du Monde [FR], SØRFOND – Norwegian South Film Found [NO], Secretaria de Turismo del Estado de Guanajuato - SECTUR [MX], Kansas City Southern de México [MX] |
| distributor: | Le Pacte, Noucinemart |
