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“The Talent,” a glitzy party-set psychological thriller toplining Ester Expósito, one of the biggest breakouts of “Elite” stars, will be brought onto the market at Berlin by Spain’s Film Factory Entertainment.
Handling many of Spain’s biggest non-global streamer movies, Film Factory has acquired worldwide rights to “The Talent”outside Spain. It will present at next month’s European Film Market a first promo of the movie whose talent package is compounded by Fernando León de Aranoa, who co-writes and produces. Helmer of San Sebastian Film Festival Golden Shell winner “Mondaysin the Sun,” one of the early big breakthroughs for Javier Bardem, León directed Bardem once more in the Oscar shortlisted “The Good Boss,” which also won six 2021 Goya Awards, Spain’s equivalent of the Oscars, including Best Film and Director, and the European Film Award for Best Comedy.
Produced by Leon’s Reposado PC and The Mediapro Studio, “The Talent” is co-written and directed by Polo Menárguez, a director of episodes of Mariano Barroso’s Amazon Prime Video hit “Los Farad” and an impactful feature debut “The Plan” (2019) acclaimed by Spanish critics.
In “The Talent,” Expósito plays Elsa, a brilliant cello student with a life of rich promise ahead. Then suddenly her security is shattered: an unexpected phone call which she receives when at a high-society party kicks off a chain of events that test her values and dignity and determine, ultimately, her fate.
Building in tension, “The Talent” “explores how a young woman’s life changes drastically over the course of a few hours,” Film Factory announced Monday.
Spanish press reports have quoted Menárguez as saying that the film turns on “a radical loss of class.” It also addresses “machismo, of course, the abuse of power and impunity of powerful men,” he added.
The Talent
Credit: Unai Mateo
The film co-stars Pedro Casablanc, fresh of his best actor win for his nuanced turn in “Querer” at December’s Feroz Awards. Here, he plays the wealthy father of Elsa’s friend Idoia, who invites her to the party.
“‘The Talent’ is one of the most anticipated Spanish projects with a strong message. I am sure it will be very attractive to buyers,” said Film Factory head Vicente Canales.
Produced part from León de Aranoa by Reposado’s Patricia de Muns and The Mediapro Studio’s Laura Fernández Espeso and Javier Méndez, “The Talent” is based on the 1924 novella “Fräulein Else” (“Miss Elsa”) by Arthur Schnitzler, who drew on the current theories of psychoanalysis practiced by Sigmund Freud, an admirer and fellow member of Vienna’s cultured Jewish elite.
Founded in 1994, Mediapro has produced movies from its near beginnings, backing films from Oliver Stone (“Comandante”) Roman Polanski’s (“Carnage”), Jean-Jacques Annaud (“His Majesty Minor”), Woody Allen (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”), Isabel Coixet (“The Secret Life of Words”) and indeed León de Aranoa (“Mondays in the Sun,” “A Perfect Day” and “The Good Boss”).
“The Talent” belongs, however, to a now swelling movie output at The Mediapro Studio which also takes in Marcel Barrena’s “El 47,” the frontrunner at 2025’s Spanish Academy Goya Awards which take place Feb. 8.
Polo Menárguez, Fernando León de Aranoa and Ester Expósito on the set of ‘The Talent’
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