Laia Costa and Hovik Keuchkerian will star in Isabel Coixet’s next film

Laia Costa, winner last Saturday of the Goya Award for Best Actress for her role in ‘Cinco Lobitos’ will be the protagonist of the new film by Isabel Coixet. The Catalan filmmaker will adapt the novel ‘Un amor’, by Sara Mesa (Ed. Anagram, 2020). “From the moment I read the book I felt an urgent need to take it to the movies,” Coixet has acknowledged. The plot revolves around Natalia, a 30-year-old woman, who leaves the city to settle in an old house in La Escalda, a village in rural Spain. There she intends to rebuild her property and start a new life surrounded by strangers, who, despite receiving her with apparent cordiality, hide mistrust, mistrust and fears.

Along with Laia Costa will be Hovik Keuchkerian (‘La casa de papel’, ‘Antiriotrios’), Hugo Silva (‘Los amantes pasajeros’), Luis Bermejo (‘Magical girl’), Ingrid García-Jonsson (‘Beautiful youth’) and Francesco Carril (‘The Virgin of August’).

Laia Costa plays Nats, who receives a disturbing sexual proposition from his neighbor Andreas. From here a tense relationship will be born that will make her question the nature of love, desire, and will shake all the certainties that she had about herself until now.

The actress made her film debut in the German film ‘Victoria’ (Sebastian Schipper), for whose leading role she received the Lola award, equivalent to the German Goya, being the first foreign actress to win it. Since then she has developed an international career with titles like ‘Piercing’ (Nicolas Perce) or ‘Only You’ (Harry Wootliff). Already in our country, she has just started filming ‘Els Encantats’ (Elena Trapé), as well as ‘Un amor’. She and Isabel Coixet collaborated with her and her in the series ‘Foodie Love’.

The script for ‘Un amor’ is written by Isabel Coixet herself along with Laura Ferrero, who already collaborated with her on the writing of the documentary ‘El techo amarillo’. “This story pushes us to rethink our perception of love and all its synonyms: passion, despair, discomfort, fear and redemption. It led me to ask myself: ‘Is seduction an innocent weapon?’ ‘Can it turn against its wielder?’ Nats’ journey is intimate, wild, provocative… And there’s nothing I love more than a challenge like that,” says Coixet.

It is not the first time that the director has made a literary adaptation. She has already directed ‘Elegy’ (2008), based on ‘The Dying Animal’, by Phillip Roth, and ‘The Bookstore’ (2017), which is based on the novel of the same name by Penelope Fitzgerald.

‘Un amor’ is produced by Marisa Fernández Armenteros, from Buena Pinta Media, also the creator of ‘Cinco Lobitos’. In addition, by Sandra Hermida and Belén Atienza, from Perdición Films, regular collaborators with J. Bayona on ‘The Impossible’ or ‘A Monster Comes to See Me’ and by Monte Glauco AIE. The film begins shooting on February 20 in various locations in La Rioja.