The Loved One: trailer for the new Rodrigo Sorogoyen with Javier Bardem
The Spanish director is in competition for the first time at Cannes with this feature film which also stars Vicky Luengo.
After the success of his series New YearsRodrigo Sorogoyen returns to cinema four years after his previous feature film, As Bestasnoticed at Cannes Première. With The loved one (The querido in original version), the Spanish filmmaker is this time in the competition for the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival.
Javier Bardem plays a renowned director who made a career in the United States and returns to Spain to shoot his new film and reconnect with his daughter, a second-rate actress, whom he has not seen for 13 years. He offers her the leading female role. A shoot which will also reopen the wounds of the past. Not to mention the volcanic behavior of this old-fashioned director.
For the role of the girl, Rodrigo Sorogoyen reunites with Vicky Luengo, whom he revealed in his series Antidisturbios. She is also in another film in competition at Cannes 2026, Autofiction by Pedro Almodóvar. Raul Arévalo (The minimum island) and Marina Foïs (who was already the poster ofAs Bestas) complete the cast.
“For The queridowith my team, we took risks and experimented“, the filmmaker told us last March on the sidelines of the Nantes Spanish Film Festival. “We played with black and white, did strange things with sound… What I can tell you is that it’s almost the complete opposite ofAs Bestaswhich was a very ‘classic’ film.”
The loved one will be released in cinemas on May 16, the day of its presentation at the Cannes Film Festival. Trailer:
