San Sebastian Film Festival · 2011
Eighteen films not yet released and selected from among the best in the world will compete for the Golden Shell.
17 films · 9 reviews
(Country: China; Year: 2011; Director: Wang Xiaoshuai; Writer: Wang Xiaoshuai)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2011; Director: Kim Ki-duk; Writer: Kim Ki-duk)
(Country: France, Mexico; Year: 2011; Director: Mathieu Demy; Writer: Mathieu Demy; Stars: Salma Hayek, Geraldine Chaplin, Chiara Mastroianni, Carlos Bardem, Mathieu Demy, Phillipe Simon, James Gerard, Cokey Falkow, Jean-Pierre Mocky, André Wilms, Fabio Zenoni, Octavio Maya, Romanö)
A beautiful film that manages to marry word, image, and music in a way that does justice to the poetry conjured up by the people it celebrates.
(Country: Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Asier Altuna; Writer: Asier Altuna; Stars: Andoni Egaña, Maialen Lujanbio)
Out of competition
One of the most affecting films of the year.
(Country: Portugal; Year: 2011; Director: João Canijo; Writer: João Canijo; Stars: Rafael Morais, Nuno Lopes, Fernando Luís, Rita Blanco, Cleia Almeida, Anabela Moreira, Marcello Urgeghe, Francisco Tavares, Vera Barreto, Beatriz Batarda, Teresa Tavares, Teresa Madruga, João Vaz)
Rachel Weisz makes it her own, delivering a powerful, raw performance that is undoubtedly Oscar material.
(Country: UK; Year: 2011; Director: Terence Davies; Writer: Terence Davies, based on the play by Terence Rattigan; Stars: Rachel Weisz, Tom Hiddleston, Simon Russell Beale, Ann Mitchell, Harry Hadden-Paton, Sarah Kants, Jolyon Coy, Elisha Stimson) , Trailer
(Year: 2011; Director: Isaki Lacuesta; Writer: Isa Campo, Isabel Campo, Isaki Lacuesta; Stars: Miquel Barceló)
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2011; Director: Björn Runge; Writer: Kim Fupz Aakeson; Stars: Peter Andersson, Anna Azcarate, Malin Buska, David Dencik)
The result is a whole lot of portent with little pay-off.
(Country: UK, Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo; Writer: Nicolás Casariego, Jaime Marques; Stars: Clive Owen, Carice van Houten, Daniel Brühl, Ella Purnell, Izán Corchero, Pilar López de Ayala, Héctor Alterio) , Trailer
Out of competition. Opening gala
Hirokazu Koreeda's childhood adventure is a sweet and subtle tale of friendship, generosity of spirit and the triumph of hope over expectation.
(Country: Japan; Year: 2011; Director: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Writer: Hirokazu Kore-eda; Stars: Koki Maeda, Ohshirô Maeda, Ryôga Hayashi, Cara Uchida, Kanna Hashimoto, Rento Isobe, Hoshinosuke Yoshinaga, Hiroshi Abe, Yoshio Harada, Isao Hashizume, Kirin Kiki, Masami Nagasawa, Yui Natsukawa, Jô Odagiri, Nene Ohtsuka)
Half-formed ideas about the nature of family and responsibility can be glimpsed but the action ends with a whimper rather than a bang.
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2011; Director: Ana Katz; Writer: Ana Katz, Daniel Katz; Stars: Guillermo Francella, Arturo Puig, Rita Cortese, Mercedes Morán, Claudia Cantero, Facundo Lombard, Martín Lombard, Rebecca Deering, Marcos Montes, Abian Vainstein, Raquel Bank, Daniel Hendler) , Official site
(Country: Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Enrique Urbizu; Writer: Michel Gaztambide, Enrique Urbizu; Stars: Julio Perillán, Juanjo Artero, José Coronado, Karim El-Kerem, Rodolfo Sancho, Nasser Saleh, Eduard Farelo, Paloma Bloyd, Pedro Mari Sánchez, Alex Spijksma, Carlos Olalla, Bernabé Fernández, Chema Ruiz, Chani Martín, Carolina Clemente)
Ultimately the in-your-face style and confusing story stop the emotions from getting truly under your skin.
(Country: US; Year: 2011; Director: Oren Moverman; Writer: James Ellroy, Oren Moverman; Stars: Woody Harrelson, Steve Buscemi, Sigourney Weaver, Robin Wright, Ben Foster, Anne Heche, Ice Cube, Brie Larson, Cynthia Nixon, Jon Bernthal, Jon Foster, Don Creech, Joanna Theobalds, Jobeth Wagner, Matt McTighe)
(Country: Mexico; Year: 2011; Director: Arturo Ripstein; Writer: Paz Alicia Garciadiego, based on Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary; Stars: Arcelia Ramírez, Vladimir Cruz, Plutarco Haza, Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Alejandro Suárez, Pilar Padilla, Paola Arroyo, Carlos Chávez, Eligio Meléndez, Marta Aura, Horacio Garcia Rojas, Harold Torres, Piedad Montero, Norma Pablo) , Official site
Where the children's stories feel as nostalgically sweet as a Sherbet Dib-Dab and Delpy has always had a good feel for the comedy of discomfort, she fails to hold back and ultimately pushes the adults into caricature.
(Country: France; Year: 2011; Director: Julie Delpy; Writer: Julie Delpy; Stars: Lou Avarez, Julie Delpy, Eric Elmosnino, Aure Atika, Noémie Lvovsky, Bernadette Lafont, Emmanuelle Riva, Vincent Lacoste, Marc Ruchmann, Sophie Quinton, Valérie Bonneton, Denis Menochet, Jean-Louis Coullo'ch, Michelle Goddet, Luc Bernard)
(Country: Spain; Year: 2011; Director: Benito Zambrano; Writer: Dulce Chacón, Carmen López-Areal, Ignacio del Moral, Benito Zambrano; Stars: Javier Godino, Inma Cuesta, Ana Wagener, Marc Clotet, Miryam Gallego, María Garralón, Berta Ojea, Susi Sánchez, Emilio Linder, Antonio Dechent, Ángela Cremonte, Ana Gracia, María León, Amaia Lizarralde, Jesús Noguero)
The idea of the cyclical nature of love and life is ripe for exploration and Margot is a pleasingly complex character, whose motivations are believable.
(Country: Canada; Year: 2011; Director: Sarah Polley; Writer: Sarah Polley; Stars: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen, Luke Kirby, Sarah Silverman, Aaron Abrams) , Official site
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