Más fuerte, Clarice (en)

Más fuerte, Clarice

Selection:

Cinéma en développement 14 / 2019

Director:

Rubén Sierra Salles

Country:

Mexico

Format:

Feature film

Type:

Fiction

Film exhibited in Toulouse:

Jazmines in Lídice

Script writer(s):

Rubén Sierra Salles et Brisa Montoya

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Director's biography:

Rubén Sierra Salles is a Venezuelan director and producer living in Mexico. He produced, along with Marianela Illas, the films El Amparo and La Familia, and directed Jazmines en Lídice.

Director's main filmography:

Jazmines in Lídice (2018)
Feature film - 75 min - Color
Toulouse Film Festival

Director’s statement:

During the rewriting process I read a story of a woman who wore earphones not connected to anything as a way to ignore horrible sexist comments on the streets. It was the same situation as my original script but with a different purpose. A lot has changed -and keeps changing- for women in the last year; all the terrible stories are changing how they see themselves, and hopefully how men see them. This brought back memories of my childhood in a small, but very international oil town, where there was a very standard way on how women should be.

Synopsis:

It’s 1995. Clarice (35), a Texan housewife, moves to a small Mexican town near the coast, with her son Evan (7) and her husband Sterling (37) who has been transferred as an expat to work for an oil company. His shifts make him spend entire weeks at the oil fields, while Clarice, a free wanderer spirit, likes to explore the chaotic town and make new friends within the locals specially with Carlos (29) the school’s janitor, who shows her around and asks her out one night. Mike (55), her husband’s boss, sees them together at a bar one night and days later stops by her house for an unexpected visit. He ends up raping her in weird circumstances. After trying to do something about it, Clarice finds out she is completely alone: no one believes in her story. Everyone, even her husband, thinks is her fault. Clarice has to deal with an aftermath of the guilt, shame, powerlessness and vulnerability.

Visual concept:

I’d like to think about memory not only as what is left behind, but also the longing -or wishing- for an ideal situation not happened yet, or never to happen. Before Clarice is raped, she wandered around town with confidence, but after, her walks are paranoid and the situations she sees become images in her process to understand what happened to her and what is her place in her tragedy. The camera will follow her and be her point of view, but sometimes, sound will alter that reality and put tension to the way she deals with the aftermath.

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Goals at Cinéma en Développement:

Meet potential co-producers and sales agents.

Shooting Date:

Early 2020

Preview locations of shooting:

Poza Rica and Veracruz, Mexican Gulf Coast, Texas.

Percentage of financing in place:

30 000 Euros - 3 %

Budget:

1 000 000 Euros

Current Status of the project:

In development

Production company:

Wonder Box Films

Producer's biography:

Marianela Illas is a Venezuelan producer living in Mexico. She has developed and produced the feature films El Amparo (dir. Rober Calzadilla) and La Familia (dir. Gustavo Rondón Córdova), which premiered at San Sebastián and Cannes receiving numerous awards worldwide, and Jazmines in Lídice (dir. Rubén Sierra Salles) to be premiered at Toulouse 2019, while developing new projects in the region.

Production company profile:

Wonder Box Films is the production company recently created by Marianela Illas and Rubén Sierra Salles in Mexico City. Their goal is to develop and produce art-house and audience driven films in Latin America and the US, as well as to become a hub for international co-productions.

Coproduction:

Rio Negro Productions

Elements you want to add:

I think this year was important for all women. We were able to speak up about things we thought we couldn’t. This film, from when the rewriting process started, decided to focus on something that will keep on adding to the conversation: our own feelings in the aftermath. That is why the decision to set the story in the 90’s and make the main character a foreigner lets us talk about the issues as they have always been. This will be, initially, a Mexican – US co-production, and we will search for a European partner.

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