72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Robert Altman
USA
125 min.
The film describes the problems that arise during a wedding day whose complexity, given the large number of family members involved, gives rise to very varied situations in which joyful, dramatic, illusive, desperate, surprising moments, etc. are mixed.
Jaime de Armiñán
Spain
99 min.
Irene Galdós runs a sentimental and beauty clinic in a provincial city and lives with her sister María Rosa, who is the true inspiration of the program. Julio Hernández, a rich canner of the region is a man traumatized by the abandonment of his mother when he was a child as well as by a wrong education. Julio is obsessed with Irene's program, in which he concentrates all his hatred, to the point that he decides to destroy the program and its author.
Not in competition
Robert M. Young
USA
110 min.
Roberto Ramírez is one of the many young Mexicans who cross the border illegally to find work in the USA. After numerous avatars he is arrested and deported. Again he crosses the border, and in one of his works he finds his father. But it's too late for them to recognize each other.
Sam Peckinpah
USA
110 min.
The world of American truckers and their confrontations with the representatives of the law. One of these confrontations begins to take considerable proportions. A caravan of trucks headed "Rubber Duck" is moving towards the interstate border, but on a bridge there are battle tanks among other huge National Guard, Army and Police forces. The confrontation is inevitable.
Gonzalo Herralde
Spain
86 min.
One morning in May 1974, a married couple from the Barcelona bourgeoisie was brutally stabbed in the bedroom of their tower in Pedralbes. It was a case that was widely publicized throughout Spain. José Luis Cerveto, the day after the events, confessed guilty to them and was sentenced to two death sentences, which were commuted to two sentences of thirty years following the death of Franco and the coronation of Juan Carlos. He is currently in the Huesca prison. His strange personality has moved Gonzalo Herralde to put the cameras in his own prison so that Cerveto himself reconstructs his case.
Arturo Ripstein
Mexico
110 min.
"La Japonesita" and her father (a homosexual whom they call "La Manuela") run a brothel. Pancho is the prototype of machismo, instinctive and brutal. One day, enervated by alcohol, Pancho mistreats "La Japonesita" and his father, overcoming the fear that grips him, is offered in a love and diabolic dance.
Ingrid Thulin, Erland Josephson, Sven Nykvist
Sweden
99 min.
The film deals with how two beings behave among themselves and how they fail to find in love an evasion and a refuge, which on the other hand is positive, because even failure can mean progress. Also for Yeva and Dan?
Pasquale Festa Campanile
Italy
100 min.
Giacomo Casanova hopes to return to Venice after twenty-five years of exile, after a life dissipated by the Cortes of Europe. The old adventurer loves Marcolina with the illusion of rediscovering his youth, but she has relations with a young and handsome lieutenant, Lorenzi. Since Casanova's appeal to the fair sex is no longer enough, he must resort to other procedures. Lorenzi is ruined in the game and Casanova proposes to give him the sum lost on the condition that one night he will replace him in Marcolina's ranch. The lieutenant accepts, but imprisoned by a belated sense of dignity, waits outside Casanova and challenges the old conqueror to duel. The lieutenant falls dead and the old Casanova has the feeling of having killed himself.
Woody Allen
USA
92 min.
Eve, a woman who has been abandoned by her husband, meets with her three daughters to try to cope with the situation. She is at a critical moment, but her daughters also have their own problems, some of them derived from the little affection they have received from their mother. Emotions overflow when the husband shows up at the family home accompanied by the woman he wants to marry.
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Francisco Rodríguez
Spain
88 min.
After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, remembers the circumstances that united them and how they lived a relationship that could have become something more than a friendship.After Paula's suicide, her best friend, Ana, remembers the circumstances that united them and how they lived a relationship that could have become something more than a friendship
Michel Deville
France
108 min.
Dominique Auphal, a senior French official, married, with two children, is appointed to a key position in an international organization charged with developing trade with Third World countries. From that moment on, for foreign secret services it becomes number 51, under a dossier that systematically searches all the documents that can define the character. How far, in 1978, can we go, when it comes to putting a man naked?
Claude Chabrol
Canada
100 min.
Two teenagers are assaulted in a deserted street by a man, knife in hand. One escapes and the other is killed by the aggressor. Detective Carella takes care of the case. He is a very competent policeman, but he has a twelve-year-old daughter, whom he unconsciously identifies with the murdered girl. The search for the criminal becomes an obsession.
Marta Mészáros
Hungary
110 min.
András has returned from America and goes to his hometown, but the meeting with his parents does not give him the calm he desires. Buy a dog from the mother of a girl, Zsuzsi, who did not want to get rid of him for anything in the world. Returned to Budapest, can not return to work at the University to have exceeded the official vacation permit at his disposal. Zsuzsi goes by car to Budapest to look for his dog and convinces András to return to town. He does this and the days go by happily. He decides to return to Budapest and the girl marches with him. His old girlfriend, Anna, asks him to return to live together and send the girl to the village. But András is more comfortable with the little girl, who continues her studies and takes care of the house.
Víctor Casaus
Cuba
105 min.
Full-length documentary about the life, passion and example of Pablo de la Torriente Brau, built from testimonial elements and reconstructions of fiction, and trying to incorporate all facets of his life: combative and innovative athlete and journalist, student wrestler and imaginative writer , anti-imperialist fighter and exiled revolutionary, war correspondent and internationalist fighter against fascism in Spain.
Witold Lesczynski
Poland
75 min.
The own experiences of the director and the musician H. Nadolski, transposed in the people of the two distinguished actors mentioned in the card, is what constitutes the essential theme of the film.
Alfredo J. Anzola
Venezuela
90 min.
Alejandro and his friend Diosa are employed in a furniture store. Alejandro suspects that his employer is mixed up in a murky business and decides to make him fall into a trap by pretending to belong to a powerful organization. Vision of the current Caracas, modern, rich and conducive to easy profits.
Tom Hedegaard
Denmark
85 min.
Action movie with political theme. The central character, the shooter, becomes a terrorist. This activity is inspired journalist Winther in a television debate, but are the journalist and the shooter in the same line?
Pável Arsénov
USSR
78 min.
Volodia was on the beach when Nadia approached him talking to her as if it had not been a year when she did not answer his letters. Volodya responded coldly, perhaps because the offense burned him. In the afternoon he went to visit her and everything seemed as before, but Volodya understood that he did not love him. After a year they met again casually and Volodya realized that without her he could not live.
Manuel Gutiérrez Aragón
Spain
96 min.
The action takes place in Madrid during the sadly famous Burgos' trial. Ana is immersed in the work of a Committee for the release of some suspected terrorists, when she suffers a terrible dizziness that makes her fall to the ground. Her mother also works with the Committee, but lives apart from her daughter. After fainting, Ana returns to her mother, who lives with her uncle Andrés. In a storybook that her son reads, Ana discovers that she herself, her mother and uncle are the protagonists. He wants to know the end of the story, but ...
Jaroslav Balík
Czechoslovakia
89 min.
To the marriage Sochor violently shakes the death of his only son, Stepan, in an accident. His companion, Jana, is transferred to a hospital. For all, the existence of the girl is a mystery. Later Stepan's mother takes care of her. Everyone realizes that Stepan would never have been able to make friends with a girl of Jana's level. But Mrs. Sochor is attracted to the girl. The photograph in which Stepan looks at Jana with a happy smile is enough.
Silvio Narizzano
United Kingdom
90 min.
The action is located in Selkirk, a special school for "incorrigible" teenagers. The director of the same hates his students, who in turn hate him. The only teacher they seem to be more or less comfortable with is Miss MacMichael. Their secret: treat them like human beings.
Pedro Olea
Spain
100 min.
Lluís de Serracant is a man in which three personalities concur: lawyer, anarchist and transvestite. One day that Lluís is going to visit a detainee professionally as an anarchist, he tells him that he had a plan to carry out an attack when he arrived in Barcelona Primo de Rivera. Lluís is excited about the plan and decides to do it himself, in the company of two friends: Ricard and Surroca. When they are preparing the attack on the train track, they are arrested by the police, tried and sentenced to the ultimate penalty.Lluís de Serracant is a man in which three personalities concur: lawyer, anarchist and transvestite. One day that Lluís is going to visit a detainee professionally as an anarchist, he tells him that he had a plan to carry out an attack when he arrived in Barcelona Primo de Rivera. Lluís is excited about the plan and decides to do it himself, in the company of two friends: Ricard and Surroca. When they are preparing the attack on the train track, they are arrested by the police, tried and sentenced to the last penalty.
Iradj Azimi
France
92 min.
Julen wants to start again and only finds silence; He leaves the city and settles in a small village to teach the children. His happiness is complete when Sylvie is in his life, but his classes provoke the wrath of the population, which expels him from the place. Julien advances out to sea, a crowd of children suddenly appears over the dunes, a storm is prepared on the shore, a new battle begins ... the utopia is already within reach, closer than ever.
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