Fever Dream / Distancia de rescate, the psychological thriller from award-winning Peruvian filmmaker Claudia Llosa, will have a limited theatrical release in the United States starting next Wednesday, October 6. The film will open at the Paris Theater in New York City and The Landmark and Los Feliz Theatre in Los Angeles and other theaters across the country including San Francisco, Miami, and Washington D.C., before premiering on Netflix on Wednesday, October 13.
Based on the internationally critically-acclaimed novel by Argentine author Samanta Schweblin and starring Dolores Fonzi, María Valverde, Germán Palacios, the film follows a young woman named Amanda who lies stricken, far from home. A young boy named David questions her, trying to make her remember. She’s not his mother, he’s not her son. As her time is running out, he helps her unravel a powerful, haunting story of obsessive jealousy, an invisible danger, and the power of a mother’s love for her child.
Fever Dream recently had its world premiere at the San Sebastian Film Festival where it was met with critical acclaim. In his Screen International review, Jonathan Holland referred to the film as "a chilling and thought-provoking project that powerfully evokes a world full of invisible dangers,” while David Ehrlich called it “faintly delirious” for IndieWire.
Concurrent with the New York theatrical release, the Paris Theater will also screen Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic 1964 film Red Desert, which was selected by Claudia Llosa as an inspiration.
Director Llosa debuted in 2006 with the feature film Madeinusa, which competed at Sundance Festival and won the FIPRESCI Prize in Rotterdam, among other awards. Her second feature, The Milk of Sorrow / La teta asustada (2009), was awarded the Golden Bear at the Berlin Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, marking a first for a Peruvian contender. Llosa returned to Berlin in 2012 with her short film Loxoro, where it won the Teddy Award, and in 2014 with Aloft, her English-language debut starring Cillian Murphy and Jennifer, which participated in the Berlinale’s official competition.
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