Me & The Beasts

Me & The Beasts (2021)

Yo y las Bestias

When the alternative rock band Los Pijamistas agrees to play at Suena Caracas 2016, a propaganda festival organized by the Nicolás Maduro regime, the patience of guitarist and singer Andrés Bravo reaches a limit. He leaves the band and starts his solo project from scratch. The severe symptoms of the crisis and an alienated environment will break his armor. However, he will not be alone: The Beasts, two masked and mysterious beings, will accompany him along the way.

Date of release
2021-11-23
TMDB
6.5 / 10 (13)
Runtime
1h 18m
Genres
Drama, Music, Comedy, Fantasy
Director
Nico Manzano

Casting

Interesting facts

Me & The Beasts is a 2021 Venezuelan fantasy drama film written and directed by Nico Manzano in his directorial debut. The film was praised for its story, direction, cinematography and performances, receiving several awards in film festivals. Cinema Tropical's included it in the list of the "best Latin American films of 2022".

Production

Director Nico Manzano explains in an interview that the idea for the film came from a sound he found while producing the musical album The River with Nika Kvaratskhelia. Said sound defined the sound aesthetic of the band with which he played in Barcelona, Spain, between 2011 and 2013. When Manzano returned to Venezuela in 2013, the album was left unfinished halfway through.

Manzano met the lead actor, Jesus Nunes, after attending the play Se hunde el barco, written and directed by Fernando Azpúrua and Oswaldo Maccio, where Jesus was one of the main characters. Jesús later received a call from the film's production to make the first casting call. Not being a musician, Jesús was tutored by Max Manzano, the director's brother, for several months, learning to play the guitar.

Shooting for the film began in 2017, which had to adapt to the factors of the crisis in Venezuela, including protests, hyperinflation and migration. With limited resources, Manzano decided to shoot with few shots, possibly around one hundred, and in the end approximately eighty-seven were used. The sound design was carried out during 2018.

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