Music Box nabs a Berlin Grand Jury Prize winner “The Club”

PanARMENIAN.Net - Music Box Films has acquired North American rights to “The Club”, a Berlin 2015 Grand Jury Prize winner, which also marks the latest film from Chile’s Pablo Larrain, one of the most talked about of young Latin American filmmakers, Variety reports.

Deal was struck with Larrain’s long-term sales agent, Peter Danner at Funny Balloons, which has also confirmed a slew of sales on “The Club,” a step in Larrain’s confirmation at the forefront of Latin American cinema. Larrain will go into production in June on “Neruda,” co-starring Garcia Bernal, one of the biggest and highest-profile of projects currently coming out of Latin America.

In his first three major films – “Tony Manero,” “Post Mortem” and Gael Garcia Bernal starrer “No” – Larrain took on the impact – direct, indirect, political, social and cultural – of Pinochet’s dictatorship.

With ‘No,’ ‘The Club’ has been Larrain’s best-received film by critics – Variety’s Scott Foundas called it “an original and brilliantly acted chamber drama” and the industry at large.