The filmmaker Hugo Ruiz has revealed the first details of his second film Dante at night. It is a new psychological thriller, which will begin to shoot on September 1. “It has nothing to do with a night with Adela. He has a time, a narrative and a different tone,” he warns.
After the success of his first film, one night with Adela, with which he won the award for Best Novel Director at the Festival of Cinema From Tribeca in 2023, Ruiz aspires again to achieve “a story that catches people and from which they cannot go.”
With clear influences of Kinki cinema and a Tarantinian style, Ruiz defines the tone of Dante at night as “frantic and in some dark moments.” And it makes it clear: “I don’t know how to do it more than this. It’s my visual language.”
The plot follows a technical ambulance driver. “He will make a cure to a house, and from there you have to be trying all night to survive,” explains Ruiz. A sustained tension thriller that, according to the director, is “very characters.”
The cast is headed by “Top” actors as Chinese Darín and Ester Expósito: “They are very solid actors, it is a luck. They will give me just what I want.” In addition, Ruiz has already begun the preproduction phase and has had the first meetings with them: “I loved it … fuck, hence what will come out,” he has anticipated with enthusiasm.
60% of the filming will be made on set and 40% in real locations, all in Madrid. AragonFor now, he is left out. “It will be all in Madrid,” Ruiz confirms. The premiere is scheduled for 2026 and already has distributors.
Since childhood, Hugo Ruiz knew that his way was going to be linked to the cinema. “My friends had girls or cars. I wallpaper my room with biographies of actors and filmmakers. Going to the cinema was the best experience in the world,” he recalls.
Although he was born in Saragossa, he regrets the lack of local support: “I have no one to thank in Zaragoza. I have tried, but it has not been possible.”
Even so, he is convinced of what is to come. “I want people to see good cinema. When they leave they say:” Wow, go travel “, and that at home they are thinking about what they have seen.” And the spectators will have to wait until 2026 for their work to appear on the big screen.
