The Last Goodbye
A feckless funeral director wrestles with financial, emotional and existential angst in ‘The Last Goodbye’, an erratic but engaging tragicomedy from Basque writer-director Koldo Almandoz.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 22, 2026 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2026 |
A feckless funeral director wrestles with financial, emotional and existential angst in ‘The Last Goodbye’, an erratic but engaging tragicomedy from Basque writer-director Koldo Almandoz.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 21, 2026 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2026 |
Spanish writer-director duo Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi revisit the life and legacy of queer literary icon Federico García Lorca in their ravishing if slightly ungainly epic ‘La Bola Negra’, a prize-winning Oscar hopeful backed by Penélope Cruz and Pedro Almodóvar.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 20, 2026 | Cine Verdict, San Sebastian 2026 |
Una pareja en crisis se ve atrapada en una espiral de tiempo en este thriller fantástico —ingeniosamente construido, con humor negro, lleno de giros— del director español Javier Ruiz Caldera.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 20, 2026 | Festivals, San Sebastian 2026 |
A troubled couple find themselves trapped inside a time loop in Spanish director Javier Ruiz Caldera’s twist-heavy, cleverly constructed, darkly funny fantasy thriller ‘5 More Minutes’.
Read MorePosted by Stephen Dalton | Sep 19, 2026 | Festivals, 2026, San Sebastian 2026 |
Naomi Watts plays a prim suburban housewife with a very dark past in Canadian director Ben Shirinian’s good-looking but heavy-handed debut feature, a based-on-reality period thriller set in 1960s New York.
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