Advent

Advent (2016)

Ad-vientu

Suso, a young unemployed man, spies a young woman who throws herself off a cliff, before he could do anything about it. Suso will seek answers that awaken memories of the past and even make him rethink his true identity.

Date of release
2016-11-25
TMDB
4.7 / 10 (3)
Runtime
20m
Genres
Mystery, Drama
Director
Xiaoxi Xu, Roberto F. Canuto

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Filmed in: Avilés and Carreño
  • Awards: 1 · Nominations: 0. Including: audience award

Advent is a 2016 Spanish and Chinese co-production psychological drama film, written and directed by Roberto F. Canuto and Xu Xiaoxi, and produced by the film company of the directors, Almost Red Productions, and Arkadin Ediciones in association with Producciones Viesqueswood.

Production and Directors Commentary

Advent (Ad-vientu) is the first film shot in Spain by the directors, after their previous works in China (Floating Melon (2015), Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal (2013) and in the States (Desire Street, Toto Forever and Mei Mei). The production took place at the beginning of 2016 in Asturias and it had many limitations since it did not have any official subsidy.

The director, Roberto F. Canuto, mention that the intention they had when they develop the story was that "the audience experience the emotions of the main character. For that reason we don't explain the past of the character and the reasons for the perturbed psychology of Suso, but we focus in the emotions, his status of mind in the present and his psychological drama as it happens in the film." We tried to portray the psychological drama that l…

The use of asturian language has a great significance in the film. According to the directors, "it is a language that needs to expand and get support to get the status of official language. The use of the language (devoid of a market accent), together with the poetic cinematography and a suggestive music, creates a very special atmosphere".

The use of local minority languages is not new in the career of the directors. In their previous works, Ni Jing: Thou Shalt Not Steal (2013) and Floating Melon (2015), shot in China, they managed without the official Mandarin language to use the own dialect of the province of Sichuan, the Sichuanese Mandarin.

The title of the film has its etymological origin in the Latin "adventus" (arrival) and it was used in the old times to announce the arrival of an important character. In Spanish language "adviento" is used almost exclusively in a religious context, but in English language has the two meanings. To refer to the origin of the word, the original title of the film separates the Latin roots of the word (Ad-ventus).

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