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In collaboration with the Círculo de Bellas Artes, the
Fundación Altadis will offer for the first time in Madrid
a selection of movies having competed at the last San Sebastian
International Film Festival for the Altadis New Directors Award,
granted this year to “Innocence”, the French film
by Lucile Hadzihalilovic. A special mention went to Ahmet Ulucay’s
"Boats out of Watermelon Rinds". In addition to these
titles are works by new directors which stood out for different
reasons on the official Festival programme.
5-9 November. Círculo de Bellas Artes Cinema
Entrance free until all seats are full.
Programme
5 November
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- 19h00 Innocence.
Altadis-New Directors Award, with its director, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
6 November
7 November
8 November
9 November
Below are a series of comments sparked by these movies
on their presentation at the San Sebastian Festival:
5 November
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17h00 Karpuz
kabugundan gemiler yapmak (Boats Out of Watermelon Rinds),
Ahmet Ulucay. Turkey
- Jury of the Altadis-New Directors Award (reason for
the mention):
For the humour and freshness with which it tackles the
language of film
- Edouard Waintrop. ¬ Libération, 29/9/2004
"The revelation of the Festival"
- Derek Elley. ¬ Variety, 4/05/04
" The undoubted discovery of this year"
- 19h00 Innocence.
Altadis-New Directors Award, with its director, Lucile Hadzihalilovic
- Jury of the Altadis-New Directors Award (reason for
the AWARD):
For its aesthetic rigour and its creation of a disturbing,
original universe
- Dennis Harvey. ¬ Variety, 4/10/04
" One suspects (it) would’ve earned Kubrick’s
admiration”.
- Leon Forde. ¬ Screen, 26/9/04
" Innocence”, a beguiling film.
6 November
- 17h00 Cama
adentro (Beba’s Live-in), Jorge Gaggero.
Spain-Argentina
- Mirito Torreiro. El País, 23/9/2004
A pleasant comedy, with just the right amount of ill-temper
to make it believable.
- 19h15 Omagh,
Pete Travis. UK-Ireland
- Carlos Boyero. El Mundo, 23/9/2004
I don’t think cinema to date had shown with such
realism and dismal authenticity events before, during
and after this kind of massive crime with such atrociously
recognizable characteristics.
7 November
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17h00 La
nuit de la vérité (The Night of Truth), Fanta
Régina Nacro. France-Burkina Faso.
- Robert Koehler. ¬ Variety, 28/9/04
Nacro has a fine eye for intimate drama and for finding
the universal in the particular.
- 19h15 In
My Father’s Den, Brad McGann. UK-New Zealand.
- Phillip Matthews. The Listener 9/10/2004
An impeccable cast telling us the tale of returning to
one’s roots when things no longer make sense. A
film leaving an impression on all of us who have to take
the road back.
8 November
- 17h30 Dag
Och Nat (Day and Night), Simon Staho. Denmark-Sweden
- Mirito Torreiro. El País, 20/9/2004
It’s a pleasure to see Staho’s iron coherence
when it comes to paying no concessions whatsoever to sentimentality,
to his unmoving desire to make the star of his movie anything
but decent.
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19h45 La
sombra del caminante (The Wandering Shadows),
Ciro Guerra. Colombia
- Gregorio Belinchón. El País de las Tentaciones.
23/10/2004
The friendship between a man with no job and a guy who
makes a living carrying people around on his back. Poetic.
- 22h00 Omagh,
Pete Travis. UK-Ireland
9 November
- 17h30 A
Way of Life, Amma Asante. UK.
- Mirito Torreiro. El País, 24/9/2004
The film shows how hatred is bottled up towards foreigners
in the skid rows of developed Europe (…) It has
a great deal of bite and the obvious desire to denounce
- 19:45 Evilenko,
David Grieco. Italy-Russia
- Mirito Torreiro. El País, 25/9/2004
A sensationalist production and an omnipresent face, that
of Malcolm McDowell.
- 22h00 Innocence,
Lucile Hadzihalilovic, France
Donostia-San Sebastian, 3 November 2004
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