San Sebastian Film Festival · 2017
16 films · 5 reviews
(Country: Spain; Year: 2017; Director: Nicolás Combarro; Stars: Alberto García-Alix)
(Country: UK; Year: 2017; Director: Dan Kokotajlo; Writer: Dan Kokotajlo; Stars: Siobhan Finneran, Robert Emms, Sacha Parkinson, Steve Evets, Aqib Khan, Jessica Baglow, James Quinn, Molly Wright, Wasim Zakir, James Puddephatt, Poppy Jhakra, Lewis Fletcher, Peter Slater)
An astonishing debut.
(Country: Switzerland; Year: 2017; Director: Lisa Brühlmann; Writer: Lisa Brühlmann; Stars: Luna Wedler, Zoë Pastelle Holthuizen, Nicola Perot)
(Country: France, Netherlands, Belgium; Year: 2017; Director: Gilles Coulier; Writer: Gilles Coulier, Tom Dupont; Stars: Sam Louwyck, Gilles De Schryver, Wim Willaert, Josse De Pauw, Mathias Sercu, Sebastien Dewaele, Koen De Sutter, Mieke Dobbels, Roda Fawaz, Roland Van Campenhout, Wennie De Ruyck, Chiel Vande Vyvere, Luc Dufourmont, Miguel Martins)
Remarkably adept in balancing audience sympathies and bold in its refusal to choose the most easily justified routes for its characters, The Charmer is a powerful piece of cinema.
(Country: Denmark; Year: 2017; Director: Milad Alami; Writer: Milad Alami, Ingeborg Topsøe; Stars: Lars Brygmann, Stine Fischer Christensen, Jesper Lohmann, Susan Taslimi, Ardalan Esmaili, Dan Boie Kratfeldt, Nastja Arcel, Hassan El Sayed, Morten Hee Andersen, Amalie Lindegård, Kitt Maiken Mortensen, Thomas Persson, Laura Allen, Austa Lea Jespersen, Soho Rezanejad)
Opening night
(Country: Taiwan; Year: 2017; Director: Lai Ku-an)
(Country: China; Year: 2017; Director: Feifei Wang; Writer: Feifei Wang; Stars: Yue Guo, Zhongwei Jiang, Xun Zhang)
(Year: 2017; Director: Laura Mora; Writer: Laura Mora)
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Teddy Lussi-Modeste; Writer: Teddy Lussi-Modeste, Rebecca Zlotowski; Stars: Tahar Rahim, Roschdy Zem, Maïwenn, Jawed Youssef, Meriem Serbah, Renaud Heine)
(Country: Spain, Argentina, Chile; Year: 2015; Director: Marialy Rivas; Writer: Camila Gutiérrez, Marialy Rivas; Stars: Agustín Silva, María Gracia Omegna, Marcelo Alonso, Nahuel Cantillano, Stefano Mardones, Sara Caballero, Isidora Uribe)
Assur is adept at creating striking images - such as the shadows of the ravens of the title on a barn wall or the threat of violence posed by a piece of machinery.
(Country: Sweden; Year: 2017; Director: Jens Assur; Writer: Jens Assur, based on the novel by Tomas Bannerhed; Stars: Reine Brynolfsson, Jacob Nordström, Maria Heiskanen)
(Country: South Korea; Year: 2017; Director: Lim Tae-Gue)
(Country: France; Year: 2017; Director: Marine Franssen; Writer: Jacques Fieschi, Marine Francen, Jacqueline Surchat; Stars: Géraldine Pailhas, Pauline Burlet, Raphaëlle Agogué, Anamaria Vartolomei, Iliana Zabeth, Alban Lenoir, Françoise Lebrun, Théo Costa-Marini, Barbara Probst)
(Country: Argentina; Year: 2017; Director: Silvina Schnicer, Ulises Porra)
Palacio also understands the resonance of small objects for those who have nothing and uses this to heighten the impact of their situation on us.
(Country: Philippines; Year: 2017; Director: Daniel Palacio; Writer: Daniel Palacio; Stars: Joem Bascon, Mara Lopez, Grace Ann Betalmos)
All the actors here are non-professionals and Das elicits extraordinarily natural performances from them.
(Country: India; Year: 2017; Director: Rima Das)
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