The first contact with the programming of the sixty-second annual Film Festival in San Sebastian, which begins today, will be pure Smite, as it opens with the film “The equalizer” , of Antoine Fuqua, a skilled director of that film swollen vein, and which stars Denzel Washington, just one of the Donostia Award this year.
after the opening stroke, seen in the competitive section a certain affection for the critic only seventeen titles fight for the Golden Shell, which clears the interest burden and concentrated. Of these, several promising Spanish: the Alberto Rodríguez, “The minimum island”, one of those dry and hard as a police Tostão garbanzo and on line (conception) of their previous “Group 7″; Carlos the Vermouth, “Magical Girl” , a well dirty story that surprised (if this is even possible) a Joseph Sexton smelling sulfur, Jon and Jose Mari Goenaga Garaño “Loreak” in the original Basque and the mystery of three women and a few bouquets of flowers anonymous; the Gabe Ibáñez, “PLC” , produced and performed by Antonio Banderas … And a few more Spanish titles in the Official Selection, but out of the competition, carrying salt on its edges: the Paul Malo, “Lasa and Zabala” , and Isaki Lacuesta “They died over potential” , where the director of “The Double Steps” (Golden Shell in 2011) seems to change the chip and takes to the satirical comedy about the crisis and its heck.
But the competition is decorated with a number of eaters Shell, as François Ozon (“Une nouvelle amie”), Bille August (“Silent heart”), Danis Tanovic (“Tigers”), Cédric Khan (“Vie sauvege”), Christian Petzold (Phoenix “), Susanne Bier ( “A second chance”) or Mia Hansen-Love (“Eden”). jury to give some order to this ambitious group of directors is chaired this year the producer Fernando Bovaira and composed, among others, Nastassja Kinski, Marjane Satrapi and Mariana Rondon.
The other sections
As a special session is the projection of the film Icíar Bollaín “In a strange land” announces, which addresses also the crisis and migration in the figure of a woman working in Almeria clerk in a store in Edinburgh. And also advertise many, many Pearls of other festivals such as Cannes last winner, “Winter Sleep” by Nuri Bilge Ceylan, or the stunning masterpiece Naomi Kawase “Still the water”; or “Mommy” by Xavier Dolan; the “Pasolini” by Abel Ferrara, or the incredible “wild stories” of the Argentine Damian Szifrón. Entitled Promises , has organized a series of films of the recent movie and thriving countries like Romania, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Croatia … with such renowned directors as Mungiu ., Tanovic, Cristi Puiu, Jamila Zbani, and many recognize
in the Zabaltegui , to highlight just a few, appear promising titles such as “Paco de Lucía: search “, very attached to music made by Francisco Sánchez Varela documentary, his son; or the latest Gianni Amelio, the Austrian Ulrich Seidl rijoso (the trilogy of Paradise), Borja Cobeaga with other more serious dye in “The Negotiator” after the success of “Eight Basque surnames” …
Anyway, it seems that the 62nd Film Festival in San Sebastian has been prepared with the idea that your guests binge film, which does not prevent the program involving a carpet den red for people walked by her prestige and autograph, Willem Dafoe, Jessica Chastain, Noomi Rapace, Viggo Mortensen, John Malkovich, Benicio del Toro (the other Donostia Award), Charlotte Gaingsbourg, Antonio Banderas and a few others that will go off-hook.
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