3
For Rodolfo (Humberto de Vargas), life at home feels empty and cold, as if he doesn’t belong. Meanwhile, his first wife, Graciela (Sara Bessio) and their teenage daughter Ana (Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy) are living through defining moments in their lives. Subtly, Rodolfo will try to slip back into the place he once had next to them — the one he walked away from 10 years ago. 3 is a comedy about three people and the absurd fate to which they are doomed: being a family.
INTERNATIONAL RELEASE
MAY 21
st
Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2012
Control Z Films presents
3, a familiar comedy. Humberto de Vargas, Sara
Bessio and Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy play the leading roles in Pablo Stoll’s
new film, a dramatic comedy about the three members of a nuclear,
disfunctional family.
SYNOPSIS
For Rodolfo (Humberto de Vargas), life at home feels empty and cold, as if he doesn’t belong there. Meanwhile, his first wife Graciela (Sara Bessio) and their teenage daughter, Ana (Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy), are going through defining moments in their lives. Subtly, Rodolfo will try to slip back into the place he once had next to them and walked away from
ten years ago.
3 is a comedy about three people condemned to the same, absurd fate: being a family.
TRAILER
http://www.3pelicula.com
http://vimeo.com/37339370
INTERNATIONAL RELEASE
3
will have its international première in the prestigious Director's Fortnight at the Cannes
Film Festival, on May 21
st, 2012. Further information available at the Directors’ Fortnight
website: http://www.quinzaine-realisateurs.com
DOMESTIC RELEASE
3
was released nationwide in Uruguay on April 20th, opening in theaters in Montevideo,
Salto and Paysandú with huge success. Only in Montevideo,
3 had more than 6.000
spectators during its first two weekends. Simultaneously,
3 is being released in a national
tour covering fifteen cities across the country through Medio&Medio Films’ itinerant
platform, being the first Uruguayan film to be released this way.
PRESS QUOTES
“Somewhat different to his previous work, a film that shows Stoll as a
director and scriptwriter who has the ability to surprise audiences and
renew himself”
Matías Castro, El País
“The three leading actors own their scenes and deliver serious
performances. For those skeptical of Humberto de Vargas: he rules”
Clara Esmoris, El Observador
“A model kit with no instructions on the back of the box, one in which
you can see a gentle film or an obscure drama”
Agustín Acevedo Kanopa, La Diaria
“Grass sods unevenly patched over a grave in a cemetery, plants that
are removed from pots into a better place that no one knows why it
could be better, the girl’s apathy when masturbating an occasional
boyfriend, the father's current partner who is never seen in images,
are all subtle observations, of cinematographic wisdom at times (...)
Those moments confirm Stoll as one of the most skilled Uruguayan
filmmakers today”
Manuel Martínez Carril, Brecha
MAIN CHARACTERS
RODOLFO
HUMBERTO DE VARGAS
Humberto de Vargas (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1962). Actor, radio and TV host, singer and
football narrator, Humberto de Vargas began his artistic career at an early age. In 1977 he
won a televised singing contest and almost immediately after became a household name
as a regular presence on Canal 10, where he hosted the variety show
La revista estelar for
more than a decade. His first venture into theater came in 1983, when he joined the cast of
a local production of Arthur Miller's
Death of a Salesman. That performance earned De
Vargas a Florencio, Uruguay's most prestigious award for theater productions. A second
Florencio came in 2001 for his role as Werner Heisenberg in Michael Frayn's
Copenhague
. As a film actor he played Jorge in Álvaro Buela's Alma Mater (2005). He has
recently been part of the TV series
Porque te quiero así and the play Al encuentro de las
tres Marías
. Currently he hosts the morning show Arriba gente on Canal 10.
GRACIELA
SARA BESSIO
Sara Bessio (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1968). Trained as an actor at the Escuela Municipal
de Arte Dramático Margarita Xirgu (EMAD), she earned upon graduation a yearlong
working scholarship with the Comedia Nacional, Uruguay's national theater company.
Meanwhile, she was a member of La Comuna, an independent company and was directed
by prominent names of the uruguayan theater scene in productions such as
Doña
Ramona
, The Cherry Orchard, The Trojan Women, Opiniones de un payaso, Le Loup
Garou
, King Lear, Ghosts and Esquina peligrosa, among others. She was also part of the
theater group Pampinoplas and directed the play
Estoy buscando un Saltanubes. In 1994
she starred in
La Trampa, a film by Ricardo Islas and Julio Porley. Bessio also appeared in
the TV series
Curro Jiménez: El regreso de una leyenda and the film El Faro, by Eduardo
Mignogna. Since 1992 she has been a body expression and drama teacher.
ANA
ANACLARA FERREYRA PALFY
Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy (Montevideo, Uruguay, 1990). In 2005 she began her acting
studies at the Escuela del Actor. That same year she played the leading role in a short film
directed by Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll. Since then she has appeared in several
shorts while she keeps training as an actor.
3 is her feature-film debut in a leading role.
DIRECTOR
Pablo Stoll Ward
Born in 1974 in Montevideo, Uruguay. Together with Juan Pablo Rebella he scripted and
directed
25 Watts (2001) and Whisky (2004). Both films received several international
awards and were commercially released worldwide. During 2006 and 2007, Stoll was
scriptwriter, director and occasional actor in the news satire show
Los Informantes, aired
for two seasons on Montevideo’s Channel 4. He has also directed several video clips and
short documentaries for television. He is a founding partner at Control Z Films, the
production company for his own films and where he has produced also
La Perrera (2006),
Acné
(2008) and Gigante (2009). In 2009 he directed Hiroshima, his first solo feature film,
which was chosen for Toronto, Rotterdam, Jeonju, Mar del Plata and Jerusalem among
other international film festivals.
DIRECTOR'S NOTES
“In 2006 we began to write this story with Juan Pablo Rebella and Gonzalo Delgado: a
dramatic comedy about the three members of a nuclear, disfunctional family. A kind of
bourgeois family, from a middle-class neighborhood in Montevideo. Perhaps what one
would call a typical family.
Six months later, Juan Pablo decided to put an end to his life. For the next two years, the
story of this family was left in a drawer, but it never went out of my head. Eventually, the
story made its way out and I wrote it in one go.
3
is a film about egoism and the search of redemption. About coming of age and those
moments in life when, even without us noticing, our personality takes shape. It's a story
about second chances and the fear they arouse: fear of failure.
The balance posed by the family in
3 is unlikely, but possible. A place that may be a bit
untrue but nevertheless safe. In
3 the characters are found in a moment of passage, in a
constant and rhythmic movement that will lead to a final encounter.
The film follows that movement, goes along with the characters and lives those moments
with them. This is expressed in sequence shots that unveil each character's environment,
which is also marked by a special sound treatment for their particular moments.
The music characters listen to defines as well this time of their lives. Ana moves in a spiral
from pop to rock, Rodolfo recovers the pleasure of listening to his old vinyl records he had
left at his former home, while Graciela finds a new love and a sort of second youth.
Like in our other films there is humor and wonder towards the absurdity of quotidian life.
There are things not said that are however drained from the empty words of everyday
exchanges. There is music and this time some dancing too, that moment when we all
make fools of ourselves to the beat of the music.”
Pablo Stoll Ward
TECHNICAL DETAILS / CREW
Title:
3
Country: Uruguay/Argentina/Germany/Chile
Year: 2012
Format: 35 mm, color
Runtime: 119 minutes
A CONTROL Z FILMS production
Coproducers:
PANDORA FILMPRODUKTION / Christoph Friedel
RIZOMA FILMS / Natacha Cervi, Hernán Musaluppi
KINÉ / Florencia Larrea
With the support of:
PROGRAMA IBERMEDIA / ICAU / MVD SOCIO AUDIOVISUAL / FONA / W.I.P. PUNTA
DEL ESTE / INCAA / ARTE-ZDF / FILMFÖRDERUNG HAMBURG SCHLESWIGHOLSTEIN
/ FILM UND MEDIEN STIFTUNG NRW / MEDIA PROGRAMME OF THE
EUROPEAN UNION / WORLD CINEMA FUND
Cast:
Sara Bessio (Graciela)
Anaclara Ferreyra Palfy (Ana)
Humberto de Vargas (Rodolfo)
Néstor Guzzini (Dustin)
Matías Ganz (Matías)
Carolina Centurión (Mica)
Inés Bortagaray (Adjunct professor)
Special appearances by:
Santiago Pedrero (Víctor)
Fabián Arenillas (Doctor)
Casting by: Leticia Jorge
Wardrobe: Emilia Carlevaro
Production Manager: Juan José López
Assistant Director: Manolo Nieto Zas
D.P. & Camera: Bárbara Álvarez
Art Director: Gonzalo Delgado Galiana
Sound Director: Daniel Yafalián
Music by: Reverb / Sebastián Del Muro Eiras
Songs by: Astroboy / El Cuarteto de Nos / Chicos Eléctricos / The Supersónicos / Eté &
Los Problems / Los Delfines / Sexteto Electrónico Moderno / Fernando Cabrera / Vieja
Historia / Hablan por la Espalda / Jimmy Helms / Guided by Voices / Opa
Story by: Gonzalo Delgado Galiana, Juan Pablo Rebella and Pablo Stoll Ward
Screenplay: Gonzalo Delgado Galiana / Pablo Stoll Ward
Edited by: Fernando Epstein / Pablo Stoll Ward
Executive Producers: Fernando Epstein / Agustina Chiarino
Directed by: Pablo Stoll Ward
SHOOTING AND POSTPRODUCTION
3
was shot in Montevideo, Uruguay, during the spring of 2010, from August 30th until
October 27
th. Postproduction took place in Uruguay, Chile, Argentina and Germany, and
was finished on October 2011.
ONLINE
Official website:
http://www.3pelicula.com
Website CONTROL Z Films:
http://www.controlzfilms.com/
Vimeo channel:
http://vimeo.com/trespelicula
Twitter:
http://twitter.com/3pelicula
Facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/3pelicula
PRESS
The Press section of
3's official website is the place to find high resolution pictures,
complete technical details and other resources. Access to these materials requires
entering a password. To obtain a password please email your request to
prensa@3pelicula.com
with your name, a contact telephone number and name of your
media organisation.
Press contact
Pablo Izmirlian
prensa@3pelicula.com
+598 99 005940
International Press Agent
Isabelle BURON
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3 – press dossier English ver. 2//05/07/2012
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