72nd San Sebastian Festival - 20/28 September 2023
71SSIFF - 22/30 September 2023
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Tran Anh Hung
France
112 min.
The director of The Smell of green Papaya (El olor de la papaya verde) and Cyclo, has filmed a hot, summery, sensuous and peaceful Hanoi, that is the real protagonist of this family story full of secrets whispered among three sisters and a brother who get together to celebrate the anniversary of their mother's death. Among smells, flavours, laughter and complicity, the director shows us a city that has learnt how to re-emerge from the ashes.
Alejandro Gonzalez Iñarritu
Mexico
153 min.
This Mexican film won the Critics' Week Award at Cannes. It has been one of the surprises of the year, both for its structure, and for its hard-hitting story and sense of black humour. A car accident is the link that unites the lives -and deaths- of several characters that intertwine, with dogs as the element that they have in common with each other. It features, among others, the model Goya Toledo.
Arturo Ripstein
Mexico - Spain - France
98 min.
Arturo Ripstein has still got endless stamina. As well as The ruination of Men, which he is presenting in the Official Section, he is offering us this free adaptation of the Greek tragedy "Medea" set in a district of México City. The tough dialogues, written as usual by Paz Alicia Garcíadiego, are perfectly balanced by the dark cruel images that Ripstein films with his familiar rigour and austerity.
Ang Lee
Taiwan - Hong Kong - USA - China
119 min.
Ang Lee has fulfilled one of his oldest desires: to make a film in the style of the classic Chinese ghost films, in which magic, love, legend and martial arts combine to provide a top-quality spectacle. The funny thing about Lee's film is that the traditional warriors in this case are two beautiful women lined up respectively on the side of good and evil.
Wong Kar-Wai
Hong Kong - China
90 min.
Wong Kar-wai has made one of the best love stories in recent years. Set in Hong Kong in 1962, the subtle love affair between Chau and Li-chun immerses us in an ambience of restrained passion. When they find out that their respective spouses are having an affair, their friendship turns into love without either of them daring to show it. A painful, beautiful film.
Agnés Jaoui
France
112 min.
For her first film as a director, the prestigious scriptwriter Agnes Jaoui, who frequently collaborates with Alain Resnais among others, has chosen a bitter-sweet comedy featuring a wealthy industrialist, who is good-natured but a bit of a yokel. This film, one of the biggest box-office hits of the year in France, aims to show that other people's tastes are not always contemptible, however outlandish they may seem.
Karim Traïdia
Netherlands
75 min.
The Algerian director Karim Traïdia, who has lived in Holland since 1979, tells the story of his friend, the journalist Said Mekbel, who was murdered in Algiers because he criticized the fundamentalists. Highly topical politically-committed film-making, accurately narrated using a very special narrative structure.
Jean-Pierre Sinapi
France
90 min.
In a hospital for people with cerebral palsy, life is difficult for the patients and their nurses, especially when the former demand the right to satisfy their sexual appetites. An entertaining, lively tragicomedy full of skillful touches that is not at all indulgent, it unanimously won the audience award at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
Neil LaBute
Germany - USA
108 min.
Neil LaButte, a well-known figure at the festival, turns his caustic cruel gaze towards the world of television soap operas and the influence they have on the petty mediocre lives of the most run-of-the mill people. Intelligent, entertaining and ironic, it has its best trump cards in Renée Zellweger, who is perfect as Nurse Betty, and in Morgan Freeman, impeccable as Charlie the killer.
Mark Herman
UK
97 min.
The latest film by the director of Little Voice focuses on two teenagers from Newcastle who will stop at nothing to get the money they need to buy season tickets for their favourite team. An intelligent combination of humour and tragedy that accurately portrays a broad sector of society that will captivate not only fans but also people who hate football. Acclaimed in the Directors' Fortnight at the recent Cannes Film Festival.
Stephen Hopkins
USA - France
106 min.
Gene Hackman and Morgan Freeman head the cast in this film noir set on a Caribbean island during New Years Eve. An American remake of the French film Garde à vue, by Claude Miller which was based in turn on the novel "Brainwash" by John Wainwright. An interesting duel between two great actors face to face on screen for the first time.
Stephen Hopkins
USA
100 min.
A man returns to his village in the north of China when he learns that his father has died. His mother has been plunged into despair and wants to bury him according to old tradition. While he is waiting, the man remembers the beautiful story of the love between his parents. A simple sublime love story told in two seasons: the pain of the winter of life in black and white; the hopes of the spring of youth in colour.
Fina Torres
USA
92 min.
Gorgeous Isabella was born with a unique gift: an unrivalled talent for preparing dishes capable of tickling men·s palates and melting their hearts. Meeting the handsome Toninho, she gives up her dream of travelling abroad to become a famous chef, deciding to stay in Brazil with him and work at his cantina instead. But Toninho·s messing around with another woman sends her stomping off furiously to San Francisco and all sorts of adventures before shooting to the top of the ratings as the sexy hostess of a TV cookery show.
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