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Meet Esteban & Emilia. A Contra Films has debuted the first official trailer for the film titled The Beloved, originally known as El ser querido in Spanish, the next film by acclaimed director Rodrigo Sorogoyen (also of Stockholm, May God Save Us, The Candidate, Mother, The Beasts). This is premiering at the 2026 Cannes Film Festival in May in the prestigious Main Competition and was just announced this week which is why they dropped this new trailer. It’s being referred to as this year’s Sentimental Value because the premise is quite similar – it’s about a filmmaker father trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter, who is also an actress. However, this film spends more time on set (in the Canary Islands) where he’s shooting rather than in an old house. Javier Bardem stars as Esteban Martínez, a famous filmmaker working on a new film. Victoria Luengo co-stars as his daughter Emilia, an unsuccessful actress. They reunite to shoot a film together, confronting their strained relationship and many unresolved past issues that neither wants to address directly. So far so good – this seems quite promising! And I am amused by Javier Bardem’s stoic filmmaker performance – it seems he’s channeling Francis Ford Coppola or many other eccentric directors. // Continue Reading ›
