In 2009, documentarian Greg Barker made Sergio, a study the incredible lifestyles of UN diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello and his harrowing ordeal in a bomb blast in Baghdad. But Barker wasn’t inspecting his state of affairs. Now, 11 years later, Barker has made a new Sergio, his narrative fiction debut, studying the diplomat from a particular vantage thing. After a Sundance stint, the movie involves Netflix this spring — and we’ve were given the professional trailer.
Netflix vet Wagner Boura, quality known as Pablo Escobar on Narcos, stars because the identify role, a person who appears to be simultaneously haunted and invigorated through his globe-trotting obligations in areas of excessive warfare. Ana de Armas, who destroyed 2019 collectively together with her remarkable paintings in Knives Out, performs Carolina, the affection of Sergio’s existence, eager to appearance her husband secure and settled. The film, with a screenplay from Craig Borten (Dallas Buyers Club), will characteristic the terrible bomb blast and ensuing ordeal. But the trailer appears much less inquisitive about positioning Sergio’s story as complete of machismo and bombast, and more as a touchy, nuanced, loving portrayal of love, professionalism, and all the headaches therein. Wish Syriana turn out to be sweeter? Sergio might be the film for you.
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