Argentine-Swiss writer-director Milagros Mumenthaler is preparing a new project that will mark a notable shift in her filmography: for the first time, it will center on a young male protagonist.
Speaking to Variety on Thursday afternoon, June 11, after her ECAM Forum masterclass in Madrid, Mumenthaler said the film is still at a very early stage and has no working title. “The only thing I’m calling it now is ‘rom-drama,’” she said, describing it as a drama with a love-story element.
“I imagined a young male character,” Mumenthaler added. “There was something I felt I still owed to my younger self, something more connected to a love story.”
Asked whether the project would again be structured as a Switzerland-Argentina production, as has often been the case in her work, Mumenthaler said that remains open. “Maybe we’ll add another country,” she said. “One always wants to, but it doesn’t always happen. I’m just starting.”
The comments followed a public masterclass in which Mumenthaler discussed how she builds films from images, locations, objects, sound and the physical state of her characters.
