Cc Gay's 'Tman' Tak Big Prize at Spanish Amy Goyas - Variety

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• ‘TMAN’ DIRECTOR CC GAY’S ‘STORI NOT TO BE TOLD’ PICKED UP BY FILMAX (EXCLUSIVE)
• CC GAY’S ‘TMAN’ TAK BIG PRIZE AT SPA’S GOYAS
• CC GAY
• TRUMAN CC GAY : LA CRIQUE DU FILM

‘TMAN’ DIRECTOR CC GAY’S ‘STORI NOT TO BE TOLD’ PICKED UP BY FILMAX (EXCLUSIVE)

To tell you more of the plot would spoil your viewg experience, you'll jt have to see for yourself how all plays of ments: this is the latt movie om Spanish wrer-director Cc Gay. It is important to emphasize that this easily uld've been an emotnal exploatn movie, yet Cc Gay manag to fe the perfect dose of realy. Cc Gay movie regulars Rirdo Dar (as Julian) and Javier Camera (as Tomas) each provi towerg actg performanc.

But ultimately I feel that the cred mt go primarily to Cc Gay for this wonrful movie, easily one of the bt I have seen a long time (and that's sayg somethg as I see a LOT of movi). “Tman, ” Spanish filmmaker Cc Gay’s wise, wistful and well-observed film about two iends enjoyg a fal rnn the shadow of impendg ath, is by turns amg and affectg — and que often both at once — as foc on a middle-aged actor’s efforts to put his affairs orr before he fac the fal curta.

But the passg of time rarely mak self felt, for director Gay, workg om a screenplay he -wrote wh Tomas Aragay, giv his dience such personable travelg panns for this seric journey.

CC GAY’S ‘TMAN’ TAK BIG PRIZE AT SPA’S GOYAS

The sense that Cc Gay might make a signifint mark on the offshore art hoe has been the air for a long time, and Tman reprents his bt shot yet.

In the years sce his but 2000 wh Krampack, Gay has quietly been tablishg himself, via such tl as Fictn and A Gun Each Hand, as a key chronicler of the securi of Spa’s Generatn X as anxly grows olr: and Tman, his evably melancholy rerd of four days the shared liv of a dyg man and his visg iend, tackl the biggt secury of all for a generatn that, around now, is startg to bee aware of s own mortaly. It’s Gay’s most emotnally direct work to date, thoroughly sheddg the clever-cleverns of some of his earlier work, and also his most accsible — a clean-led, sensively-wrten and betifully played two-hanr that tackl plex issu a rehgly straightforward, downbeat way. (Both actors are repeatg wh Gay om the shorts that prised Gun.

For this character-based film, Cc Gay has gathered an array of Spa’s ft character actors.

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Director: Cc Gay. Screenwrers: Cc Gay, Tomas Aragay. Barcelona-based film-TV stud Filmax has acquired ternatnal sal rights to Cc Gay’s new edy “Stori Not to Be Told, ” which is currently shootg.

TRUMAN CC GAY : LA CRIQUE DU FILM

Filmax will also handle Spanish distributn to the latt outg om Gay, whose 2021 Goya Awards ntenr “The People Upstairs, ” has sold to major terrori Europe and North Ameri. Wrten by Gay and regular -scribe Tomás Aragay “(“In The Cy, ” “Tman”), Gay’s nth feature is produced by Marta Esteban at Imposible Films and backed by Spanish pubster TVE, Movistar Pl and Catalan pubster TVC.

The film tak five edic tal that criss-cross at random and foc on the emotns of the ma characters, Gay said, addg that the stori are “told wh a lot of rhythm and actn and characterized by acerbic, yet tongue--cheek tone, as the tle suggts. To dare, men have domated Gay’s movi. This time round, women take center stage, though “there’s still nothg which is as much fun to play around wh than men’s pathetic abily to al wh their emotns, ” Gay said.

“One of Cc’s greatt gifts is directg actors and really helpg them to e alive character, while at the same time gettg the dience to empathize wh them, ” said Marta Esteban, Cc Gay’s longtime producer. Movi|Review: ‘Tman’ Foc on a Man Whose Days Are Numbered Lopez/FilmRiseTmanDirected by Cc GayComedy, Drama1h 48mApril 5, 2017The tle character “Tman” is a dog, but this film’s director, Cc Gay, do not excsively explo him for cheap sentiment.

Gay and Tomàs Aragay, offers some sights to termal illns. Wh the llaboratn of actg greats Darín and Cámara, Gay brgs humor and sensivy to this private and personal story, creatg a sgular reflectn on iendship at the end of life.