While on a trip to Barcelona this past summer I had the opportunity to visit the set of Painless (Insensibles), the upcoming feature film from Juan Carlos Medina. A Spanish-French co-production with a timeline that spans decades the film is a thriller that begins in the days of the Spanish Civil War and continues through until the current day.
From the producers of Hierro, Amer and Sons Of Norway the impression I had is that this is something unusual, something with the potential to be quite special. Art direction was fabulous and the entire behind the scenes crew is simply excellent, included among them the writer of [REC] (Luiso Berdejo), the cinematographer of Hierro and KM 31 (Alex Martinez), special effects by the Hellboy and Pan's Labyrinth team at DDT, and music by Let The Right One In composer Johan Soderqvist. Álex Brendemühl (The Hours Of The Day), Tomas Lemarquis (Noi The Albino), Juan Diego (Torremolinos 73), Derek de Lint (Black Book), Bea Segura (Hierro) and Félix Gómez (Agnosia) star.At the dawn of the Spanish civil war, a group of children, insensitive to pain, is locked in a sanatorium in the heart of the Pyrenees. Current days, David Martel (Brendemühl), brilliant neurosurgeon, discovers that he has a tumour and start searching for his biological parents to get a bone marrow transplant necessary for his survival. During his quest, David will exhume terrifying secrets about his origins, reanimate ghosts of his home country and confront Berkano, only fateful survivor of the insensitive children.
Take a look at the first two images below.