SAN SEBASTIAN 2022

Dance First

Sep 30, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022

Gabriel Byrne plays dual versions of Irish literary legend Samuel Beckett in Oscar-winning director James Marsh’s unrevealing but elegant and engagingly offbeat bio-drama ‘Dance First’.

Kings of the World

Dec 30, 2022 | Festivals, International Oscars 2024, San Sebastian, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022, Zurich

Colombian writer-director Laura Mora’s prize-winning road movie ‘Kings of the World’ is a messy but big-hearted love letter to the loveless.

CINE VERDICT Los reyes del mundo

Dec 7, 2022 | Cine Verdict, Featured, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022

La premiada road movie de la escritora y directora colombiana Laura Mora es una carta de amor desordenada pero con gran corazón para los que carecen de afecto

Maternal

Sep 28, 2022 | Festivals, San Sebastian, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022

A cocky 14-year-old rebel becomes a mother in Pilar Palomero’s closely observed and vibrant tale, whose mixed pro/non-pro cast is convincingly upbeat.

San Sebastian: The Verdict

Sep 27, 2022 | Festivals, San Sebastian, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022, Spotlight

San Sebastian celebrated its 70th anniversary with grace and good programing.

Pornomelancolía

Sep 27, 2022 | Featured, Festivals, San Sebastian, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022

Director Manuel Abramovich’s controversial docu-fiction portrait of Mexican porn star Lalo Santos, ‘Pornomelancolía’ is empathetic and absorbing, despite being disowned by its leading man.

Marlowe

Sep 26, 2022 | Festivals, San Sebastian, SAN SEBASTIAN 2022, Spotlight

For the 100th film of his career, Liam Neeson switches from action thriller to classic film noir in a flyweight but generally entertaining post scriptum to Raymond Chandler’s immortal detective series, co-starring Diane Kruger and Jessica Lange.