Tetro

Tetro is a 2009 AmericanArgentine drama film written, directed and produced by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Vincent Gallo, Alden Ehrenreich and Maribel Verd. Filming took place in 2008 in Buenos Aires, Patagonia, and Spain. Tetro received a limited release in the United States on June 11, 2009.

In February 2007, Coppola announced that he would produce and direct the film Tetro, based on a script that he had written while editing Youth Without Youth. Production was scheduled to begin in Buenos Aires, Argentina in late 2007. Coppola was attracted to Argentina as a location, I knew Argentina has a great cultural, artistic, literary, musical, cinema tradition, and I like those kinds of atmospheres very much because you usually find creative people to work with. Production did not begin as scheduled, and by March 2008, Vincent Gallo and Maribel Verd joined the cast. The Spanish company Tornasol Films and the Italian company BIM Distribuzione signed with the director to coproduce the film. Production began on March 31, 2008 with a budget of 5million, with Coppola using the production style similar to his previous film Youth Without Youth. Filming took place in La Boca in Buenos Aires and other parts of the capital city. Filming also followed in the Andean foothills in Patagonia and at the Ciudad de la Luz studios in Alicante, Spain. Production concluded in June.In May 2008, during filming in Argentina, the Argentina Actors Association, an actors union, claimed that production of Tetro was shut down due to union members working on the film without a contract. According to The Hollywood Reporter, Local press reports say that script changes and communication problems between the multinational cast and crew have extended filming days beyond regularly scheduled hours, and that some of the Argentine actors are still not certain of their salary. The directors spokesperson, Kathleen Talbert, denied that production was halted, saying, There are no holds on shooting, no problem with actors. In fact, the majority of the Argentine actors have already wrapped the shooting. By the end of the month, the union said the issue was resolved, reporting, The lawyers for the producers presented the necessary documentation and recognized the errors th

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