‘They Will Be Dust’: A Daring Right-to-Die Musical by Goya Winner Carlos Marqués-Marcet World Premieres at Toronto
variety.comCallum McLennan In “They Will Be Dust,” Carlos Marqués-Marcet, the Goya-winning director of “10,000 KM,” heads into a genre-bending exploration of life, love, and death.
World Premiering at this year’s stacked Toronto International Film Festival’s Platform strand, the film is far from a conventional musical.
It fuses contemporary dance and musical elements with the stark realities of a right-to-die story. Co-written with Clara Roquet, whose “Libertad” garnered acclaim at both the Goya and Gaudí awards, the film is co-produced by Lastor Media, Alina Film, and Kino Produzioni— part of the same team behind Carla Simón’s Golden Bear-winning “Alcarràs.” Latido Films handles international sales.
The film centers on Claudia, played by Ángela Molina (“That Obscure Object of Desire,” “Broken Embraces”), who decides not to wait for her terminal illness to strip her of agency.
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