“La Mesías,” the multi-prized series created by Javier Ambrossi and Javier Calvo, behind the Cannes best-director winning “La bola negra,” will be released by Mubi in U.K., Canada, Turkey, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria, streaming exclusively from Sept. 3.
A Movistar Plus Original, produced in collaboration with Ambrossi and Calvo’s label Suma Content, “La Mesías” will also stream on Mubi in France, Mubi announced Thursday. The deal was closed with Movistar Plus International. Mubi will launch with a two-episode premiere.
A step-up from “Veneno,” which made a splash on HBO in the U.S., six-part series “La Mesías” delivered a example of the full-on ambition of Los Javis, as Ambrossi and Calvo are known in Spain, which was seen again in “La bola negra,” one of the highest-profile Cannes main competition contenders which sparked rave reviews, and a bidding war for the U.S. rights.
“La Mesías,” Los Javis’ title just prior to “La bola negra,” begins with thirtysomething loner Enric watching a viral video of Stella Maris, a Christian pop band. His reaction? He literally wets himself. For the singers are his younger sisters. Memories flood back of his own childhood and youth, traumatized by his parents’ religious fanaticism which climaxes in mother Montse declaring herself the daughter of God, and that the words her daughters sing are dictated to her by God and part of her mission to save humanity via music.
