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Golden Age via Andrucha Waddington’s ‘Lope’

The filmmaker behind Me You Them (2000) and the lush The House of Sand (loved the creative use of thesps Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres) directed a shot-in-Spain pic titled Lope, about the early Golden Age of theater which housed spirited romantic comedies.

Eric Lavallée

Published on October 13, 2009

No trailers and just one pic folks to show for Andrucha Waddington’s to be released sometime in 2010 period pic. The filmmaker behind Me You Them (2000) and the lush The House of Sand (loved the creative use of thesps Fernanda Montenegro and Fernanda Torres) directed a shot-in-Spain pic titled Lope, about the early Golden Age of theater which housed spirited romantic comedies.

This is set in 1588 when Lope de Vega is forced to choose between a relationship with a woman who can advance his career and another who represents true love. Here’s a hardcore wiki listing on Lope himself, and our preview page which gives you a sense of who’ll play his love interests.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).