San Sebastián, Sep 21 (dpa) – In its third day, the Festival San Sebastian Sunday presented two personal proposals genre: from science fiction realistic and “made in Spain” “PLC” , produced by and starring Antonio Banderas “The Drop” , a thriller gangster with the deceased James Gandolfini back to the last screen.
Always with a smile on his face, Banderas defended this bid to regain the spirit of Isaac Asimov in a genre that, according to the director Gabe Ibáñez, Hollywood has become rather fantastic-family movie, stripping of its philosophical potential. However, despite its good intentions, the film did not quite convince critics who reproached lack of narrative pulse.
Framed in a dystopian near future and, with the Earth destroyed by a nuclear disaster, “Automaton” follows the investigation of Jacq Vaucan insurance agent, who begins to investigate the strange behavior of some robots. You will soon discover that what seemed intentional manipulation becomes a threat to the human species.
“We wanted a science fiction direct to the reality in which we are free,” he said in an interview with dpa Banderas. And to achieve this realism are based on a successful proposal “retro-futuristic” with physical robots instead of digitized and drinking iconography of western and detective thriller.
Filmed in English, since it is aimed at a global audience, the film has a low budget for a production of this type (five million euros) and in collaboration with the former wife of Banderas Melanie Griffith. The protagonist himself confessed that he has not paid one euro for his work, and took the opportunity to ask the government to support the Spanish cinema.
Then, in the science fiction switched to gangster film with “The Drop,” a new twist to the genre this time focussing on those at the bottom of the pyramid. The director of “Bullhead” Michaël R. Roskam makes the leap to Hollywood demonstrating a subtle handling of the tension in this film in which nobody is who they claim to be.
script writer Dennis Lehane, author of the novels that inspired “Mystic River” and “Shutter Island-, the film is played by the British Tom Hardy (” Inception “) as a young waiter looking away when the Brooklyn mafia uses the bar as “collection point” for money laundering.
The discovery of a pit bull puppy in her neighbor’s trash (Noomi Rapace the trilogy “Millennium “) and a steal in the bar just putting it in the spotlight of the head of a band of Chechen. Thus, although the dog revives him new feelings, will soon be drowned by the harsh surroundings.
“We wanted to tell the story of those who are forced to deal with organized crime because the laws only protect the rich,” said the Belgian filmmaker. In these neighborhoods, mafias supersede state powers when organize life, he adds, and there are those caught in them becoming both victim and criminal.
Despite his acclaimed performance, Hardy was notably absent from the press conference in which Rapace wore blond hair and did not miss the memory of the late Gandolfini. “It was very sad. Hope to see him make his fans happy,” Roskam said about the legendary patriarch of “The Sopranos”, here embodied the unreliable former bar owner and cousin of the protagonist.
Finally, the third film of the day in the race for the Golden Shell was the drama “A Second Chance”, directed by Oscar-winning Danish Susanne Bier and starring one of the actors Fashion on the small screen: Jaime Lannister of “Game of Thrones’ Nikolaj Lie Kaas.
Far from the role of “Nightfall” Kaas embodies this time a policeman excited about the baby he and his wife just had. The sudden death of the little sinks into despair, and when the agent runs into a couple of junkies who have a newborn hidden in a closet, comes up with a desperate idea.
Bier, who already showed their dominance to delve into the conflicting human nature to “In a Better World” now poses a poignant moral drama in which the boundaries of right and right to confront diluted with an extreme situation. And above all, highlights a reality that is not always obvious: no one should believe better than others.
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