We already have a trailer for ‘The crooked lines of God’, the new film by Oriol Paulo (‘During the Storm’) that adapts the homonymous novel by Luca de Tena, published in 1979 and considered a classic of Spanish literature.
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The film follows Alice Gould, a private investigator who infiltrates a psychiatric hospital to investigate the mysterious death of an inmate. In the brief preview that the trailer gives us, we see Alice (Bárbara Lennie) in a trial headed by the director of the sanatorium (Eduard Fernández), about to face the consequences of her infiltration.
Regarding the references of the film, Paulo has acknowledged the influence of works such as ‘Shutter Island’ by Martin Scorsese, ‘One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest’ by Milos Forman, ‘Corridor of No Return’ by Samuel Fuller and the cinema of Claude Chabrol . In short, that we will surely meet a story where the borders between what is real and madness will be blurred.
Luca de Tena’s novel has already been adapted once before, by the Argentine filmmaker Tulio Demicheli in 1983.
In addition to Lennie (‘Magical Girl’) and Fernández (’30 Coins’), the cast is completed Loreto Mauleon (‘Homeland’), Javier Beltran (‘The laws of the border’), bald oleander (‘The minimal island’), Faith Aguado (‘The Plague’) and Pablo Derqui (‘The invisible line’).
The film is scripted by Oriol Paulo and Guillem Clua (‘The innocent’) and has Warner Bros, Atresmedia, Nostromo and Filmayer in production.
With a budget of 7 million euros and after several attempts to bring the adaptation to the screen, ‘Los renglones torcidos de Dios’ is one of the strong bets of Spanish cinema for this year, with release date for October 7, 2022.