Producers frame this as a dream collaboration, highlighting the 'mystical and everyday quality' of faith in life amidst tragedy.
Insiders are buzzing about Alché’s explicit jab at Argentina's 'extreme right,' suggesting the film is a direct political rebuttal to current military-rule nostalgia.
Alché states the film recovers a past when Argentina 'still had a productive matrix and there was hope for the future.' Shooting is slated for the second half of 2027.
This isn't just a period piece; it's a political manifesto wrapped in a family drama. Alché is drawing a straight line from Evita to today's headlines.
Hold onto your popcorn, folks, because María Alché isn't just making a movie; she's starting a fight. The director behind the San Sebastián darling "Puan" has officially boarded a new project, "I Love You and Today Everything Looks Beautiful," and the accompanying director’s statement reads less like a logline and more like a political manifesto. While Argentina’s Pasto Cine, Brazil’s Bubbles Project, Spain’s Elastica Films, Germany’s Pandora Film, and France’s Maneki Films are busy signing checks, Alché is busy dropping truth bombs about the current state of her home country.
The film is set in the 1950s and 1960s, following orphaned siblings Josefina and Jorge as they move in with their irreverent aunt Berta, but the subtext is screaming about 2026. Let’s talk receipts, because Alché’s words are sharp enough to cut glass. She explicitly connects the fictional Josefina’s "personal orphanhood" to the "dispossessed in Argentina," noting how historical orphans were "adopted by the maternal Eva Perón." But here is the kicker: she contrasts that era of hope with "today’s Argentina, overshadowed by the rise of the extreme right that shamelessly evokes the days of military rule." This is a bold move for a period drama.
By claiming interest in recovering a past where the country "still had a productive matrix and there was hope for the future," Alché is directly challenging the current political narrative. She isn't hiding her bias; she's weaponizing it for the screen. The production team is stacked with talent that clearly shares Alché's vision, or at least her taste for high-stakes drama.
Renowned French cinematographer Hélène Louvart, known for "La Chimera," has joined the project, alongside editor Livia Serpa and sound director Laura Zimerman. This marks Alché’s third collaboration with Bubbles Project’s Tatiana Leite and the fourth for Pasto Cine’s Barbara Francisco. Leite told Variety she was "moved deeply from beginning to end" by the screenplay, praising its "dreamlike dimension that permeates reality." Francisco added that the team shares a "close and lasting bond" rooted in a "shared vision of the world," which, given Alché’s statement, seems to include a shared disdain for the current political right wing.
Currently in the financing stages, the film is aiming to shoot in the second half of 2027. It’s produced by a heavyweight coalition, including Bubbles Project, which recently wrapped Miguel Gomes’s "Selvajaria" and is developing Pedro Pinho’s "I Only Rest in the Storm." The stakes are high, and the politics are higher. If Alché can translate her sharp political commentary into the same box-office magic she achieved with "Puan"—which won the Silver Shell and was a hit in Argentina—this could be the most controversial indie film of the late 2020s. We’ll be watching to see if the "extreme right" takes the bait.
