For the first time, renowned actor Ewan McGregor shares credits with the equally acclaimed Ethan Hawke in the film Raymond & Ray. It is a drama that boasts the Colombian Rodrigo García in the director’s chair, and that narrates the reunion of two half-brothers when their father dies, being his last wish that his offspring dig the tomb of the eternal break from him.
The film had its world premiere within the framework of the Toronto Film Festival 2022, on September 12, within the gala presentations.
What is it about Raymond & Ray?
An official synopsis for the film reads as follows, according to a statement from Apple TV Plus:
Raymond & Ray follows half-brothers Raymond and Ray, who have lived in the shadow of a terrible father. Somehow they still have a sense of humor, and the patriarch’s funeral is a chance for them to reinvent themselves. There’s anger, there’s pain, there’s madness, there can be love, and there’s definitely grave digging.”
Rodrigo García, who directs and writes this feature film, conceived a thirty-minute script years ago, thinking only of a son who must fulfill the last wish of his recently deceased father. Some time later, García chose to give prominence to two half-brothers, with the particularity that they share the same name, “which set the tone for the type of father they had,” according to what he told dead line.
Raymond & Ray It was filmed in the fall of 2021, in different locations in the state of Virginia, United States. Produced the Mexican Alfonso CuaronOscar winner for Rome (2018) and Gravity (2013).
who acts in Raymond & Ray?
In the role of the twins Raymond and Ray, appear respectively the winner of the Emmy Ewan McGregor (Halston) and the Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke (boyhood).
The cast complement it Maribel Verdu (And Your Mother Too), sophie okonedo (death on the nile), todd louis (High Fidelity), Tom Bower (The law of the strongest), Oscar Nunez (office) Y Vondie Curtis Hall (the dark house).
about the director
The Colombian Rodrigo García, son of the illustrious novelist Gabriel García Márquez, has a cinematographic career of more than 30 years, since he began as director of photography in cinema and television at the end of the 1980s and throughout the 1990s. debut as director was just looking at you (2000), a romantic drama starring Glenn Close, Cameron Diaz and Holly Hunter, which earned him success in the Un Certain Regard section at the Cannes Film Festival.
García is also recognized for the period drama Albert Nobbs (2011), awarded at the San Sebastian Festival; the movie nine lives (2005), multi-awarded at the Locarno Festival, and the American television series In Treatmentdeveloped by the Colombian from an original Israeli show, and which earned him the Writers Guild Award in 2009.
when does it premiere Raymond & Ray?
Raymond & Ray will reach the platform streaming Apple TV Plus the October 21, 2022.
official poster
Official trailer (September 29, 2022)
Antonio G. Spindola I have very bad memory. Out of solidarity with my memories, I choose to lose myself too. Preferably in a movie theater.