Amapola (film)

Amapola
Amapola
	Original film poster in Spanish
Directed by	Eugenio Zanetti
Written by	Eugenio Zanetti
Produced by	Gonzalo Vila; Daniel Benadon; Rodrigo Vila; Dalila Zaritzky; Guillermo Rossi; Sabina Sigler; Raúl Campos;
Starring	Camilla Belle; François Arnaud; Geraldine Chaplin; Lito Cruz; Elena Roger;
Cinematography	Ueli Steiger
Edited by	Jane Moran; Santos César Custodio;
Music by	Emilio Kauderer
Production; company	Cinema 7 Films
Distributed by	20th Century Fox
Release date	June 5, 2014 (Argentina);
Running time	84 minutes
Countries	Argentina; United States
Languages	Spanish; English

Amapola is a 2014 Argentine-American romantic comedy fantasy film written and directed by Eugenio Zanetti and starring Camilla Belle, François Arnaud, Lito Cruz, Leonor Benedetto and Geraldine Chaplin. It is the first film as a director of Zanetti, who was previously known for his work in art direction, as well as set designer and theater/opera director.

Synopsis[edit]

During the turbulent years that changed Argentina - between 1966's Coup d'état and its subsequent dictatorship, the Malvinas/Falklands War in 1982 and the return to democracy in 1983 - a young woman who lives with a family of artists is magically transported to the future, where she discovers the decadence that fell upon her family, their estate and herself. She decides to return to her present in an effort to change the future, keep her family united, save her happiness and find her true love.

Cast[edit]

Camilla Belle as Amapola
François Arnaud as Luke
Geraldine Chaplin as Memé
Lito Cruz as Amapola's father
Leonor Benedetto as Clara
Esmeralda Mitre as Sisy
Elena Roger
Nicolás Pauls as Ariel
Luciano Cáceres as Tincho
Nicolás Scarpino as Lalo
Liz Solari as Lola
Juan Luppi as Juan
Santiago Caamaño as Gáston
Juan Acosta as Saporitti

Production[edit]

Amapola was for a long time a dream project for Argentine Eugenio Zanetti, who gained international recognition for his work in many Hollywood films such as Flatliners (1990), Last Action Hero (1993), What Dreams May Come (1998) and The Haunting (1999), and won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction in 1995 for the film Restoration. Zanetti also participated as the film's production designer.

Camilla Belle took some time before filming for learning to speak Castilian, a variant of the Spanish language and Argentina's official language (as well as the most popularly talked in the country), and to do so with a "Porteño" (people from Buenos Aires City) accent.

Reception[edit]

Released in Argentina on June 5, 2014, the film received mixed reviews from Argentinian critics.^[1]

References[edit]

^ Amapola reviews Todas Las Críticas

External links[edit]

Amapola at IMDb
Amapola at Rotten Tomatoes

[1] Amapola reviews Todas Las Críticas

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