Carnival Time

It’s carnival time. Not much to do, everyone is doing something, somewhere, some of it involves playing with water, or concert gigs for the three rock bands some of our people are part of. Amy is busy with Pygmalion and other film related biz, Jac is enjoying a quiet time with the cats, Chet Baker, Pink Floyd and JUSTINE. It’s a very long weekend for Bolivians. People will return to work on Wednesday, for a couple of days, to then continue their carnival celebrations.

Jac had a surprise visitor, a journalist that presented him with a copy of his review of OLALLA, a great review, and asked him for an interview. Jac was happy to oblige, so he gave a long interview, 46 min worth, about a lot of his work, particularly in Sirwiñakuy and Olalla, two of the films the interviewer was most interested to know about, since those are the two films he saw. The interview and review will be published when OLALLA has a special presentation in Potosí, where the 1800’s part of the film was shot, sometime before June, but we have the permission to publish it in our sites in both languages.

Finally bought Le Marquis de la Croix and Martyr. So exquisite. Love your actresses’ realistic performances (and bodies!). Looking forward to Justine. I’m sure De Sade would be proud. XX
A fan

You are not alone in your sudden interest in Martyr and Le Marquis. We’ve seen an increase in sales in both films lately. I love the comment about the performances being realistic. They are. I strongly believe that what makes our films as impressive as they are, is the acting, more than the beauty of the performers, or their bodies, or the daring to go so far.

It’s their acting what makes our films stand out. Carmen is a great actress. If Jac has any regrets is that he did not have enough funds to make the movies he wanted to make with her back in the day. Happily, they worked in Martyr.

Meanwhile, the results of our sales haven’t changed much. Maleficarum remains as the best seller of all times. Le Marquis is keeping the second place at a healthy distance. Martyr has taken over the Third place leaving Dead But Dreaming and JUSTINE (always in pre sales) sharing the Fourth place, Olalla is alone in the FIFTH place and Barbazul has gone down to the Sixth place in the preference of our fans. Agent X is in seventh place, closely followed by Sirwiñakuy. The rest of the movies are below what we call the litmus line.

While having a nice walk, a thought came to me. A What If thought. What if Jac decided to go back to his roots. I had a hard time deciding what I would consider his roots. The Haiti film? A return to in depth, passionate documentaries about issues that concern him? The Man on the Moon miniseries? Where he discovered Carmen aka Camille and her amazing talent? The One Man Crew One Actress style of work in basically fetish crucifixion movies? Producing High Standards Television like NatGeo where he met Amy? The last one would not be his roots, of course. The Haiti film, or the Miniseries for TV would be closer to his roots. So, What If? That’s one question that I would pose to him and I think I will. It’s a rhetorical question right now, in case you are all wondering.