PRODUCTION / FUNDING Spain / France
Rodrigo Sorogoyen is working on the series The New Year's Eves for Movistar Plus+
- ARTE France will oversee the release of the recently wrapped series - about a couple over the course of ten New Year's Eves - in the various territories it has a presence in
UPDATE (22 March 2024): European cultural channel ARTE France has joined the production of the new Movistar Plus+ original series, filming for which has just wrapped, thus guaranteeing its premiere in all of the territories where it operates. Alexandre Piel, deputy head of Drama at ARTE France, said: “We’re very happy to renew our production commitment with our friends from Movistar Plus+ after the two great seasons of Hierro [+see also:
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series profile]. It is an honour to work with the unique and talented creator and director Rodrigo Sorogoyen. His way of depicting the chemistry between a woman and a man right from their initial encounter on a New Year’s Eve is fascinating in itself.”
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The New Year's Eves began filming on 2 October in the Spanish capital and will continue over the next few months in locations around the Madrid region, Lyon and Berlin. With it, its director Rodrigo Sorogoyen and Movistar Plus+ enjoy their third collaboration after the successful series Riot Police [+see also:
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film profile], with which he visited the Cannes Première section of the French festival and won the César for Best Foreign Film and nine Goya awards, including Best Film, is directing four of its ten 50-minute episodes, while the other six will be directed by Sandra Romero (who has Por donde pasa el silencio yet to be released - read more) and David Martín de los Santos (That Was Life [+see also:
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The series stars Iria del Río (seen in El increíble finde menguante [+see also:
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Its plot depicts Ana turning 30 on New Year's Day with her life still unresolved: she lives in a shared flat, she doesn't like her job and her friends often change. Oscar turns 30 on New Year's Eve with his life almost figured out: a vocational doctor, loyal friends and a relationship that comes and goes. Just as the two reach their thirties, they meet, fall in love and begin a relationship that will last for ten years.
In Sorogoyen's words, "I’ve always been interested in couples: what make two people like each other, love each other and form a team? The sadness of disappointment, the pain of separation, the time spent remembering each other, the hope of second chances. And, above all, how life goes by and one, who’s always the same, ceases to be as one was and wonders if, as the years go by, one is prepared to love and love oneself better".
"The New Year's Eves is a love story over a period of ten years. An approach to the most intimate aspects of this couple who like each other, who love each other, who fight, who meet again during a key decade for all of us: going from our thirties to our forties. During these years you make vital decisions and feel mature, but it’s hard to leave youth behind", continues the director of Stockholm [+see also:
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The New Year's Eves is a Movistar Plus+ original series in collaboration with Caballo Films which will be distributed by Movistar Plus+ International.
(Translated from Spanish by Vicky York)
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