This year we have seen a good level Official Section compared to the last two years, and perhaps that is why, when the Palmaris has been made known, it has not leaped the balloons from anyone's eyes. Are we close to the gray consensus at the Festival Awards that were so appropriate to share climate criticism? Not so soon. Tie that horse.
Dans la maison, by François Ozon, is a good movie, a Golden Shell that you are not ashamed of at once, do you remember Isaki Lacuesta's double steps last year? No? Then you are better lucky than I am. The humor and theme that can approach the line of Woody Allen, the game between the levels of fiction, the reflection on the need to tell stories… The story of the student who is going to put the life of the professor of literature dancing raises the viewer a nice exercise, but I have the impression that it is nothing more than that, an exercise, and overcoming the fascination of metaphysics, will not leave a mark like other films we have seen.
The Silver Shell to José Sacristan for his work in The dead and being happy is fair; the same could be said of Katie Cossen for Foxfire. I have more doubts about Macarena García’s, since Snow White – forgive me for being a snob – has seemed to me to be an overvalued piece. And although I think Fernando Trueba has invented The Artist and the Model, I lack some ingredient to properly interpret the Marches.
Spain is that component, or rather, the immense capacity of the Spanish film industry to influence the awards of the San Sebastian Festival year after year. Of the eight main gifts, four have been for Spanish directors, films and actors in the 60th edition and although this year they have made more merits than those of other years, it would easily change some names, such as the chromes – Costa-Gavrasen Le capital is very unfair to run out of anything.
Attention, because I am not referring to Spanish cinema in general, but to the diminishing cinema that drives some dark lobbys at the gates of Pancorbo. And Snow White is the last exemplary of this kind of productions, awarded today at the San Sebastian Film Festival, nominated tomorrow for the Oscar and with few doubts, already with a selection of Goya.
What else did you expect to find – a devil says to me on the shoulders – in the palmarés of a festival turned on the eve of the Goya Awards?
Edurne Azkarate said from the micro stage that the Basque film has little Basque in the celebration of the San Sebastian Film Festival. The phrase echoes for its truthfulness. In the architecture scene you can repeat the same motto and I am sure that in so many other cultural... [+]
Bound in Heaven
Address: Xin Huo
Country: China
Duration: 109 minutes
Premiere: Not implemented
Run away from death, forward. The man who suffers a terminal illness will do so, along with his lover, friend and travel partner. A hard but positive film, with good image... [+]
The ninth and final day, at a special festival that will remember me with great affection. Leaving two films risky for the last day, I'm writing this first chronicle with the music of a bar, because I didn't like the movie I saw before.
I've seen Ulysses in the program of the... [+]
And that was Saturday and not Sunday. It was hard for him to clear up the day, because there were far fewer people on the street and there was no hurry. Some soon approached Kursaal and Victoria Eugenia Theatre, where they projected the closing movie of the night, We Live in... [+]
The Gasteiztarra Patricia López de Arnaiz has been made with the Goya the best lead actor at the 72 San Sebastian Festival. In the Zinemaldia, for his work in the film 'The Flashes', directed by Pilar Palomero.
The film is based on the first narrative of Eider Rodríguez's book... [+]
I never cry with movies. I've seen hard films, sad stories, full of death, showing the worst of the human being, without asking for forgiveness. I've seen beautiful, elegant, monumental movies that talk about miracles, deep. And yet, I don't cry with movies. Those of us who... [+]
Although outside the Concha de Oro competition and other awards, other – usually good – works are premiered in the Official Section. In particular, there are sixteen competing films and 22 films – twenty films and two telescopes – are in projection.
One of the series... [+]
When I made the Festival calendar, the first film I chose was Parthenope. Not knowing what it was, before I read the synopsis, I knew I had to see it, because it was from director Paolo Sorrentino. My roommate and roommate always tells me that I’m an “excited” with that... [+]
On Wednesday, the Greek Costa-Gavras was at Donostia-San Sebastian, at 91, presenting his new work and giving him the level with Le dernier souffle; and on Thursday the British Mike Leigh, with an elegant black cane and an 81 year old luggage.
New old ones? No. And I'm not... [+]
Family dynamics that have been worsening for too long tend to become chronic and cannot be easily cured. In the feature film written and directed by Sandra Romero, where the silence passes (The place that passes the silence), Antonio (Antonio Araque) returns to Ecija (Andalusia)... [+]
There is sometimes a feeling that everything is tied. It will be possible to see everything, even in the Official Section, always under a framework. We have seen some touches of humor, weeping dramas, suspenses, documentaries, even a horror film – which we will analyze at the... [+]
On June 28 of this year, Casa in Flames (Etxea Sutan), a dramatic comedy directed by Dani de la Orden, premiered. I told him I thought I would see him a month before the festival, when I was talking to a friend, and he recommended it to me. Although we do not always agree, the... [+]