After Fernanda Melchor was the screenwriter of the Netflix series “Somos”, which is based on a true story, now the author will see her novel “Hurricane Season” on screen in an adaptation of the streaming service.
The book by the Mexican author was published in 2017 and was a finalist for the International Booker Prize 2020, in addition to winning the Anna Seghers International Prize and the International Prize of the Casa de las Culturas del Mundo and the Elementarteilchen Foundation, both in Germany. in 2019.
The adaptation will be made by director Elisa Miller, who won the Golden Palm in Cannes for her short film “Ver lover”. The cassette will start recording in the summer of 2022 and will be produced by Woo Films.
What do we know about it
A cover of “Hurricane Season” on Netflix
In a Netflix press release on April 13, director Elisa Miller commented that as with any adaptation of a literary work, each person has their own interpretation, but with a vote of confidence from Fernanda Melchor, she feels confident she will translate it. book in the cinema in the best way.
For his part, Francisco Ramos, Vice President of Content for Latin America at Netflix, said the adjustment is part of a strategy to grow Mexican filmmakers on the streaming platform.
What is “Hurricane Season”?
The novel tells the story of the fictional city of La Matosa, where a group of children are in a river with the body of a murdered woman. The dead woman is the “Witch” of the place, a figure that is respected and feared by the locals.
With the “witch” dead, suspicions fall on a group of young people, as a neighbor saw them the night before the murder leaving the woman’s house and carrying a bunch of humanoids.
The story covers issues such as the case of a woman murder in rural Mexico, the misery, abandonment and misogyny that pervade Mexican society, as well as sexual perversions and superstitions that dominate the thinking of much of the population.
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Source: univision
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