Les frères Larrieu viennent présenter UN HOMME, UN VRAI, dans le cadre du « BACKWASH: THE CUTTING EDGE OF FRENCH CINEMA ». Je les avais rencontré en 2008 à Cannes, au Jimmy's, mais je confesse que je ne m'étais pas trop attardée en leur compagnie, tout occupée que j'étais à chasser du gros gibier (...). Quelle erreur : je réalise aujourd'hui combien ils sont sympathiques ! Cette fois-ci, dans un salon du Maria Cristina, j'ai bien tendu l'oreille, toute curieuse de savoir c...

Hadewijch, un film qui fait dans la lenteur, mais qui décolle quand l’humour entre en jeu. LA projection a eu lieu à midi, et à 17h je retrouve l’actricep rincipale Julie Sokolowski à l’hôtel Maria Cristina, avec qui je converse fort agréablement en attendant que Bruno Dumont nous rejoigne… Voici une refonte de notre entretien. CR : Comment vous êtes-vous retrouvée à jouer dans ce film, alors que vous ne vous destiniez pas à être comédienne ?   JS : En ef...

  TIRESIA est le film que Bertrand Bonello vient présenter dans la section THE CUTTING EDGE OF FRENCH CINEMA. Ayant fait l’entretien avant la projection du film, je poserai des questions plus globales….   J’avais rencontré Bertrand Bonello à Cannes en 2008, lorsqu’il avait présenté son dernier film, De la guerre, à la Semaine de la Critique. On s’était croisé au Jimmy’s (où j’avais pu rentrer et lui pas, allez savo...

Director Mario Monicelli and Japanese film noir will play the lead in two of the Festival retrospectives. The work of Italian maestro Mario Monicelli and the specific treatment dedicated to film noir by Japanese cinema throughout its history will play the leading part in this year’s edition of San Sebastian Festival, to take place from 18-27 September. CLASSIC RETROSPECTIVE: MARIO MONICELLIComedy was one of the most important genres in the Italian cinema of the 1950s and 60s. Outstanding among...

Close to 200,000 film-goers took part in the various screenings and activities at the 55th edition of the San Sebasti?n International Film Festival, which came to a close on September 29th. Ticket sales were up 8% this year, with a total of 100,576 tickets sold compared with 93,253 in 2006. Added to this figure are the 60,300 entrances by Festival accredited participants and the 18,000 children who enjoyed the morning screenings at the Velodrome, in addition to the peop...

Hong Kong-born director Wayne Wang's "A Thousand Years of Good Prayers" won the best film and best actor awards at the 55th annual San Sebastian film festival in Spain on Saturday.Based on a short story by the same name by award-winning author Yiyun Li, the movie depicts the tensions that follow when a widower from Beijing, Mr Shi, goes to the US to visit his recently divorced daughter Yilan."It was a small film that needed a lot of time to be done because I think films need to br...

Wayne Wang, the director of A Thousand Years of Good Prayers,explains that what he was really interested in showing in his film was the contrast between the American and Chinese cultures.“Despite the fact that the daughter has become very Americanised, she still respects certain values that she has learnt in China and speaks to her father with respect. In Chinese culture it is difficult to express your feelings; you don’t say things directly, you say them in a very roundabout, formal way.”...

  Official selection Eastern Promises by David Cronenberg is the Opening Night Film; Flawless by Michael Radford (Out of Competition) will be San Sebastian Festival Closing Night Film.Battle for Haditha Nick Broomfield Buda az sharm foru rikht / Buddha Collapsed Out of Shame (Buda explotó por vergüenza) Hana Makhmalbaf Ceot oi kap gei / Exodus Pang Ho-Cheung Daisy Diamond Simon Staho Earth Alastair Fothergill, Mark Linfield. Out of CompetitionEmotional Arithmetic Paolo Barzman Encarnación ...

The international jury for the 55th San Sebastian Film Festival is chaired by Paul Auster (Chairman );other jury members includePERNILLA AUGUST NICOLETTA BRASCHI BAHMAN GHOBADI EDUARDO NORIEGA SUSÚ PECORARO PETER WEBBER PAUL AUSTER (Chairman) Paul Auster is the author of Travels in the Scriptorium (2007), The Brooklyn Follies (2006), Oracle Night (2003), The Book of Illusions (2002), The Red Notebook (2002), Timbuktu (1999), Mr. Vertigo (1994), Leviathan (1992), The Music of Chance (1990), Moo...