The novel “Matate, love” by Ariana Harwicz will be adapted to the cinema with production by Martin Scorsese

During the pandemic Ariana Harwicz learned that “Passion Trilogy” which includes her three novels: “Matate amor” (2012), “The Weak-minded” (2014) and “Precocious” (2015), were read by Martin Scorsese and there was an interest in buying the rights to adapt them to the cinema. After more than a year of back and forth they finally said yes. “What came to me is that Martin Scorsese fought for him to say yes,” the author tells us in dialogue with Filo News. Die, my love” (by its English title) will arrive in Hollywood in 2024 directed by Lynne Ramsay, produced by Martin Scorsese and starring Jennifer Lawrence, the latter will also be working on the production. There is Jennifer Lawrence who is super blockbuster, but at the same time the director is independent in her way of filming, uses alternative aesthetics, but with celebrities. I think the film is going to be a mix between something very blockbuster but very independent, “confesses the author.
The novel unfolds the first-person account of a woman, recently a mother, who is in permanent search of her desire. It goes through the postpartum period in a raw and heartbreaking way, and even at times enters trances of madness where it is difficult to differentiate if what is happening is real or is a product of your imagination. “I was chasing what happens to this woman, what she is capable of doing and what she is not capable of doing. I set out to follow the fate of this character I encountered. I like that the work is a rare and independent thing, which is not well known what it is” deepens Ariana.La story takes place in a house near the forest, where animals such as deer, owls, birds that take center stage in the story live. The author points out that animals help her compose the characters: “I observe the animals a lot. More than humans. It can be any animal, a frog, a beaver, a squirrel, as I am in the forest it is not so difficult for me.” I also observe and listen to people, all the time, anything serves you when you write a novel. You are served by a criminal case, a femicide, an infanticide, something that someone in a state of despair and depression says. Because the syntax of someone depressed, drugged or under the effect of a duel, is always an altered syntax” adds Harwicz.La author of “Trilogy of Passion” has lived in France for almost 15 years, and her novels are designed from a cross between both countries: “What I write is very Argentine and yet not Argentine, It is both at the same time. One thing between Argentinidad and foreignness, that’s what my novels are.” The noise of an era” is the new work of the author, will be published in May by the Marcianas publishing house. It is a non-fiction book, “they are like longer literary tweets, they are not essays, they are not stories, suddenly there is a conversation, a memory, a quote, something that one writer said to another before dying” summarizes the author. The Argentine writer considers that, when training in other disciplines such as theater, cinema, photography, philosophy, she does not get to write in a “classical” way. “I had that idea of crossing all disciplines,” he emphasizes. The book will be available at the Book Fair that begins on April 27. Ariana Harwicz will come to Argentina in a few months to make an official presentation. In addition, “Matate, amor” is currently at the Santos Dumont 4040 theater. The play is directed by Marilú Marini and stars Erica Rivas.

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