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| Director: | Carlos Marques-Marcet | ||
| Cinematography: | Gabriel Sandru | ||
| Editing: | Chiara Dainese | ||
| Music: | Maria Arnal | ||
| Language: | Spanish |
They Will Be Dust (es|'''Polvo serán'''|links=no) is a 2024 musical tragicomedy film directed by Carlos Marques-Marcet from a screenplay by Marques-Marcet, Clara Roquet and Coral Cruz starring Ángela Molina, Alfredo Castro, and Mònica Almirall.
After a woman with an incurable disease (Claudia) decides to end her life, her significant other Flavio sets in motion a plan to die together in Switzerland, while their daughter Violeta ends up as an unmeant middle woman.
The film is a Spanish-Swiss-Italian co-production by Lastor Media, Alina Film, and Kino Produzioni, with backing and funding from ICAA,, Creative Europe's MEDIA, RTVE, Movistar Plus+,, IDM Film Fund & Commission Südtirol Alto Adige and Eurimages. Gabriel Sandru took over cinematography duties.[1] The score was composed by Maria Arnal.[2] Shooting locations included Barcelona.[3]
The Will Be Dust had its world premiere in competition for the Platform Prize at the 49th Toronto International Film Festival on 7 September 2024.[4] [5] It was also selected as the opening film of the 69th Valladolid International Film Festival.[6] Co-distributed by Wanda Vision and Elastica Films, it is scheduled to be released theatrically in Spain on 15 November 2024.
Stephen Saito of Variety wrote that the film "proves moving in more ways than one", "achieving a level of intimacy unusual even for its reliably sensitive director".[7]
Olivia Popp of Cineuropa wrote that the film "goes for broke in all its sincerity and quirkiness — and succeeds".[8]
Jonathan Holland of ScreenDaily deemed the film to be an "admirably unsentimental and involving end-of-life drama that comes, unusually, peppered with dance sequences".[9]
Javier Ocaña of El País declared They Will Be Dust "a bold, almost senseless, volcanic, pretentious, vociferous, passionate (though not enthralling)" work, with some dance sequences veering towards Eliseo Subiela's levels of cheesiness.[10]
Philipp Engel of Cinemanía rated The Will Be Dust 4 out of 5 stars, writing about an "intelligent" film, "without the slightest hint of sentimentality".[11]
|-| rowspan = "3" | || 2024 Toronto International Film Festival || colspan = "2" | Platform Prize || || [12] |-| 69th Valladolid International Film Festival || colspan = "2" | Silver Spike || || [13] |-| 19th Rome Film Festival || Best Actress || Ángela Molina || || [14] |-| rowspan = "3" | || rowspan = "3" | 12th Feroz Awards || Best Original Soundtrack || Maria Arnal || || rowspan = "3" | [15] |-| Best Trailer || Miguel Ángel Trudu || |-| Best Film Poster || Emilio Lorente, Lluís Tudela || |}