Caótica Ana (2007)

Director:

Julio Medem

Writer:

Julio Medem (writer)

Release Date:

24 August 2007 (Spain)

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Romance

Plot:

A countdown, 10, 9, 8, 7... until 0, like in hypnosis, through which Ana proves that she does not live alone.

Plot Keywords:

Character Name In Title

Cast

Manuela Vellés	...	Ana
Charlotte Rampling	...	Justine
Bebe	...	Linda
Asier Newman	...	Anglo
Nicolas Cazalé	...	Said
Raúl Peña	...	Lucas
Gerrit Graham	...	Míster Halcón
Matthias Habich	...	Klaus
Lluís Homar	...	Ismael
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Antonio Bellido
Leslie Charles	...	Jovoskaya
Sue Flack	...	Tourist
Giacomo Gonnella	...	Bodygard
Juanma Lara
Diego Molero
Filippo Morelli
Antonio Vega	...	Himself
Valeria Vereau	...	La inca
Hugo Catalán	...	Camarero (uncredited)
Laura De Pedro	...	Girl at party (uncredited)
Sybelle Silverphoenix	...	NYC pedestrian (uncredited)

Directed by
Julio Medem

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Julio Medem		writer

Produced by
Sebastián Álvarez	....	co-producer
Simón de Santiago	....	executive producer
Enrique López Lavigne	....	executive producer
Julio Medem	....	executive producer
Koldo Zuazua	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Jocelyn Pook

Cinematography by
Mario Montero

Film Editing by
Julio Medem

Casting by
Sara Bilbatúa

Art Direction by
Montse Sanz

Costume Design by
Estíbaliz Markiegi

Makeup Department
Pedro Raul De Diego	....	special makeup effects artist
Ana López Puigcerver	....	makeup artist
Sergio Pérez	....	hair stylist

Production Management
Mari Arnedo	....	production manager
Koldo Zuazua	....	production leader

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Sara Mazkiarán	....	assistant director
Mónica Sánchez	....	second assistant director
Jacob Santana	....	third assistant director (uncredited)

Art Department
Iñaki Rubio	....	property master

Sound Department
Polo Aledo	....	sound editor
Tomás Erice	....	boom operator
Patrick Ghislain	....	foley mixer
Iván Marín	....	sound recordist
Daniel Peña	....	foley editor
David Rodríguez	....	adr recordist

Visual Effects by
Juan Ignacio Cabrera	....	digital compositor

Camera and Electrical Department
Richard J. Cottrell	....	steadicam operator
Diego López Calvin	....	still photographer
Juan Carlos Moreno	....	key grip

Editorial Department
Ximo Michavila	....	digital film colorist

Music Department
Terry Davies	....	conductor
Miguel d'Oliveira	....	music programmer

Other crew
Rosa Garcia	....	head of promotion
Abi Jackson	....	location assistant: New York
Ana Medem	....	art works

Thanks
Ara Katz	....	special thanks
Ana Medem	....	dedicatee

Production Companies

• Alicia Produce
• Sogecine S.A.
• Volcano Films

Distributors

• A-Film Distribution (2008) (Netherlands) (theatrical)
• Babilla Ciné (2007) (Colombia) (theatrical)
• Prokino Filmverleih (2007) (Germany) (theatrical)
• Shapira Films (2007) (Israel) (theatrical)
• Tartan Films (2007) (UK) (DVD)
• Visual Filmes (2008) (Brazil) (all media)

Other Companies

• Gearbox Sound and Vision  additional ProTools systems supplied by

Also Known As:

Chaotic Ana (USA) (literal English title)

Runtime:

118 min

Country:

Spain

Language:

Spanish

Color:

Color

Certification:

Netherlands:16

Filming Locations:

Arizona, USA

Company:

Alicia Produce

Trivia:

All the paintings by 'Ana' in the film were actually painted by Julio Medem's sister Ana Medem, who died just on the eve of a big exhibition of her work.

Soundtrack:

Agárrate a mí, María

Scattered Ana

I saw this last month at the Palm Springs International Film Festival. The premise of this film was done before back in 1968 in the film Candy. You take a lovely nymph-like girl with a lot of hair and a beautiful body and build a series of disjointed, ridiculous sketch-like stories around her with the help of a big name actor or two and pretend it's a comedy. This film does the same except it pretends to be a drama. The films title character Ana (Manuela Vellés) is a gifted young artist living with her father Klaus (Matthias Habich) in a cave near Ibiza, Spain. Yes, they live in a cave but it's quite nice and richly appointed for a cave dwelling. Newcomer Vellés almost didn't have the role as it was originally attached to actress María Valverde who wisely bowed out and you can only imagine if it was her refusal to do a certain scene in this film. One day a wealthy art patron from France named Justine (veteran international talent Charlotte Rampling) discovers the artistic potential in Ana and wants to cultivate her talent by setting her up in her exclusive art colony she runs in Madrid. Ana meets Linda (Bebe Rebulleto) who becomes her best friend and Said (Nicolas Cazalé) who becomes her boyfriend. Ana discovers the doors to past lives through regressive hypnotism by an young American hypnotist named Michael (Asier Newman). The movie has you hooked for a while and you wonder where it's going to go but once she heads for New York it rapidly falls apart as a film trying to hard to be an art film with a political and social message. The film looks great with art direction by Montse Sanz and cinematography by Mario Montero and direction from the talented and celebrated, international film festival award winning Julio Medem. The film is dedicated to Medem's sister Ana Medem whose actual artwork are featured through the film. Her Picassoesque style painting were to be shown at an exhibit in Valencia when on her way there she was tragically killed in a car accident. I hate to be critical of a film dedicated to someone who represents such a personal loss to it's director but the story written by director Medem is so bad that I can't help it. Watching this film you realize that this guy knows how to make a film but you wonder why he didn't make one this time. It features some nudity and some prolonged unnecessary violence and I would give this a 5.5 out of 10 and not recommend it to a general audience.